VSee for Mac is now available in the Mac App Store!  Download your VSee from the Mac App Store and try our VSee Plus unlimited screen sharing feature for free.  VSee secure video calling for groups is always free and unlimited 🙂

VSee CEO Milton is speaking on “Telemedicine for Iraq Kurdistan, Shell Nigeria, & 3M Americans” today, 2:30 p.m. at the Bay Area Multimedia Forum (BAMMF) series. Location: George E. Pake Auditorium, 3333 Coyote Hill Road, Palo Alto, CA 94304 Time: May 27, Tuesday, 1:00pm – 5:00pm Agenda: http://www.bammf.org/news/bammfagendaonmay27 Check out our telemedicine posts…

The Federation of State Medical Boards (FSMB) recently caused a stir with its new telemedicine policy guidelines.  Modern Healthcare reports that the update of its over-a-decade-old model telehealth policy on the use of telemedicine technologies gives preference to the use of video over voice-only (phone) technologies. This has caused a small…

If you created an account between 11:30 p.m., May 8 and 12 p.m., May 9, you may experience problems logging into your account. Resetting your password should solve the issue. You can reset your password at https://vsee.com/passwordrequest Please be sure to check your junk mail box in case the password…

VSee (booth #2511) is exhibiting at the largest telemedicine, telehealth and mHealth conference of the year along with many of our partners including MDLIVE, Dell Healthcare Solutions, Intermountain Healthcare, Eceptionist, Honeywell, Firefly, Disaster Logistics, and Brighter Day Health.  Join us at this year’s ATA Annual Meeting in Baltimore, Maryland along with health IT leaders spanning the entire…

One of VSee VIP customers is Barton Associates.  They are the largest hospital temporary staffing company in the US.  I met the owner and their executive team a number of times – a wonderful and hard charging set of people (ie – you will learn a lot and it will…

Dear Customers and Users, As you may have heard, Heartbleed is a serious defect in OpenSSL, a core cryptographic library that is used to protect communications on the Internet.  This bug affected a large proportion of Web servers on the internet. VSee has updated our servers with the fixed version…

VSee saves recorded video as Matroska (.mkv) files. To play a file, you can use VLC media player for playing MKV files on both Windows and Mac.  You can also check out other some alternatives to VLC here. Set up VLC to Play Videos Side-by-Side VLC for Windows view Go…

excerpted from Time magazine Online virtual doctor visits are a growing breed of telehealth services beginning to dot the healthcare landscape.  Companies such as MDLIVE, American Well, TeleDoc, Google Helpouts, and Doctor on Demand offer virtual care services that are designed to give you immediate access to a doctor so getting medical attention is more convenient and accessible for everybody.…

RetraceHealth has been a big fan of VSee secure video chat for telehealth for quite awhile now. This is because a key component of our business model depends on being able to connect our nurse practitioners to patients over secure video visits. We’ve explored a couple of different options, such as…

VSee CEO Milton Chen talks with Tim Reha about VSee HIPAA-compliant video chat for telehealth and the future of telemedicine at mHealth Summit 2013 . Courtesy of Digital Health Live.

WebRTC and the promise of video calls right from your web browser has captivated the media and businesses over the past few years. So it’s not unusual for us to get questions about how VSee compares with WebRTC video.  Recently, we got this interesting question from a customer: From your expertise,…

Excited to get a twitter mention from renowned cardiologist and geneticist, Dr. Eric Topol himself for the VSee telemedicine kit in Africa. Dr. Topol is a big proponent of using iPhones and wireless technology to make health care more accessible and affordable to consumers.  Here’s a great interview that NBC’s Dr. Nancy Snyderman had with him.…

The February issue of the Pediatric Annals journal features a new study on an Intermountain teleneonatology pilot, along with several other articles focusing telemedicine.  The recent pilot, conducted by expert neonatologist, Dr. Stephen Minton, Intermountain business director, Mark Allan, and Intermountain telehealth director, Dr. Wesley Valdes, shows how an Intermountain-designed teleneonatology unit is increasing…

VSee will be exhibiting at the HIMSS 2014 Health IT Conference in Orlando, Florida all next week Feb. 23-27 in booth #5077.  You can also find us at HIMSS in the Dell Healthcare booth #5264 Hall C (where there will be daily drawings for a Dell Venue Pro 11 tablet) and the Intermountain Healthcare booth…

Our remaining days in Duhok (Dohuk) Iraqi Kurdistan were spent mostly at the Azadi Teaching Hospital where we did telesurgery trainings all day until the hospital closed each day. setting up VSee telesurgery for a mastoidectomy. It turns out that the Azadi Hospital is the only public hospital in Duhok. …

Syrian refugee camp patients waiting to be seen as we unload our equipment. Duhok (Dohuk or Dahuk) is about an hour from the Turkish border of Iraqi Kurdistan We hit the ground running on day two of the medical outreach, following the medical training symposium on Sunday.  The medical outreach…

updated: 1/20/2014 VSee CEO Milton Chen and VSee Director of Telehealth Becky Wai traveled to Kurdistan, Iraq this week to participate in a week-long humanitarian surgical and medical outreach trip  sponsored by Operation Hope (OH), World Surgical Foundation (WSF), American Hepato-Pancreato-Biliary Association (AHPBA), The American Kurdish Medical Group (AKMG) and Otorhinologic Research Institute (ORI).  The goal…

This year’s annual CES 2014 in Las Vegas saw  Intermountain Healthcare Transformation Lab showcasing their VSee-powered tele-NICU prototype. Using VSee secure video chat, a Mac mini, and 3 Logitech 920 webcams, Intermountain created a special telehealth system just for the NICU.  It allows both remote doctors and parents to check up on…

It may be time to give VSee group video chat a whirl now that OpenTok (WebRTC version) 1-on-1 calls are no longer free.  Not only are VSee 1-on-1 calls always free, even group video calls are always free. OpenTok is now requiring everyone to pay at least 50 bucks a month…