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VSee New Release 424 – Test Call With Playback

Updated May 5, 2015 – see Release 505 for mobile device (iPhone / iPad / Android ) change list. VSee brings you a new, improved Test Calling Center so you can make sure your audio and video are working before connecting. Just click VSee Test Call in your contact list! Windows version 15.0.0.424 (20567) Mac…

VSee Telemedicine Platform at ATA 2015 Expo May 2-5

VSee is looking forward showing off our simple, powerful telemedicine platform at ATA 2015 Conference this year. We will be in booth #2602 – alongside Vidyo, Zoom and other video vendors. Click on the graphic to the left to get your free VIP Expo Floor Pass (use the code VIPcomp15). VSee’s no sign-up virtual waiting room provides a…

VSee Update 319 – New Sound Notification

*updated Apr. 2 with Android release notes and Mar. 25 with iOS release notes Never miss a client with VSee’s new waiting room sound notification! Windows version 15.0.0.313 (20172) Mac version 2.8.1 (20235) iPhone version 1.6.1 (20280) iPad version 3.0.1 (20280) Android version 1.2.1 (20324) All clients (Android, iPad, iPhone, Mac and…

NASA’s Choice For the International Space Station

Post updated 8/6/2020 VSee Behind the Scenes on ISS: Historic SpaceX Launch On May 30, 2020, NASA launched the first crewed SpaceX Mission. You can see VSee in the background being used to monitor the takeoff from the ground as Expedition 63 Commander Chris Cassidy narrates what’s happening on the…

New VSee Windows Release 223 – Better App Share, Better Chat

Updated 3/19/2015 – all clients now released. Please see full change list and version numbers below. For better app sharing over poor networks and a cleaner chat UI, please update your VSee to Windows – version 15.0.0.223 (20073) Mac version 2.8 (20125) iPad 3.0 (20122) iPhone 1.6 (20095) Android 1.2…

HIPAA Survey Shows Small Medical Practices, Billing Companies Not Ready for Audits

Thanks to Travis McKnight for today’s post! Travis is a journalist who discusses medicine, science and technology. Follow him on Twitter @Khellendos. A health care study reports that a significant portion of surveyed small medical practices and medical billing companies are not compliant with the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act’s…

New Telemedicine Partnership with MyVitalz Remote Patient Monitoring

VSee has partnered with MyVitalz, a company that provides simple remote patient monitoring for the home. With MyVitalz, patients keep their care team updated with their biometric health data (such as pulse and temperature) once they return home from the hospital. Now, with VSee’s Virtual Waiting Room integrated into MyVitalz, patients…

VSee Release 121 – Updated API

Please make sure you are on the latest version of VSee: Windows version 15.0.0.121 (19918) Mac version 2.7.3 (19918) iPad 2.9.3 (19918) iPhone 1.5.3 (19918) Android 1.1.3 (19918) Changes for Android, iPad, iPhone, Mac and Windows: Updated VSee API support for call analytics

The Year Ahead for VSee Telemedicine

Dear Friends, 2014 was a pivotal year for us as the telemedicine and telehealth markets finally exploded. We have been working with visionaries such as MDLIVE-Walgreens, Focus Cura, Intermountain Healthcare, and Mayo Clinic for a number of years. And now everyone else is knocking down our doors wanting telemedicine! Doctors…

VSee and Chinese Medicine

We recently received this thank-you letter from Jonathan Berkowitz, LAc, who runs Inquisitive Owl Acupuncture in San Francisco: Our practice was actually designed with hardworking software engineers in mind. Telemedicine is quite useful for people who work long hours, and who can’t take time away from the office. In addition,…

VSee New Release 1126 – Thanksgiving Bug Fixes

We’ve brought you some VSee bug fixes just in time for your Thanksgiving VSee calls with friends and family. Check to see if you’re updated to the latest version: Windows version 14.0.0.1126 (19755) Mac version 2.7.1 (19755) Android 1.1.1 (19755) iPad 2.9.1 (19755) – available next week iPhone 1.5.1 (19755)…

Surveys Show Telemedicine’s Growing Popularity

Telemedicine has passed the tipping point. Two recent surveys of healthcare providers show that telemedicine, if not quite a mature industry, has at least achieved mainstream acceptance. In a survey by the Academy of Integrative Health & Medicine (AIHM), two-thirds of respondents said that they “are either using telemedicine to…

Did Vidyo / Fuze Kill Verizon Telehealth?

For the last few years, Verizon has been one of the titans leading the charge into the telemedicine space. Verizon had a big presence at tradeshows such as mHealth. They issued RFPs for video conference and telemedicine platforms to create their offerings, and created a huge buzz about the new Verizon…

The Two Biggest Pain Points Telemedicine Practioners Face

With the walls coming down on telemedicine reimbursement and physician licensing, many doctors are looking to start practicing telemedicine –  either adding telemedicine to their services or starting their own online clinic. We’ve been talking with front line telemedicine practitioners about their biggest pain points in doing telemedicine and discovered that there…

Becoming An Online Therapist – VSee Interview with Dr. Nicholas Jenner

Five years ago when Dr. Nicholas Jenner began exploring the idea of online therapy there were very few online counselors or telemental health services. Like most people in private practice then, his motivation was simply to save his clients a drive from one place to another. Instead, online counseling ended up saving…

Innovative Program Trains Nurses & Physical Therapists for Telehealth Visits Using VSee

American International College (AIC) in Springfield, MA uses VSee telemedicine technology as part of an innovative academic program that trains nursing, physical therapy and occupational therapy students to conduct telehealth visits. In the telehealth model patients and care providers are at a distance, which, among other benefits, helps expand access…

Do-It-Yourself Telemedicine Solution for an Ebola Isolation Unit

Being on the front lines of Ebola containment is a frightening job. Protective measures include setting up check-in stations outside of the hospital, wearing heavy duty face shields and decontamination suits, duct-taping layers of gloves to sleeves, and using telemedicine technology. In fact, Nebraska Medical in the lonely Midwest has…

Medicare Covers More Telemedicine Services for 2015

Last week ended on a high note for telemedicine advocates with CMS adding 7 new codes to the Medicare telemedicine billing schedule that will be reimbursed for 2015. The new services include: psychotherapy prolonged office visits annual wellness visit and related matters remote chronic care management remote patient monitoring The proposed CMS physician fee schedule also included…

VSee CEO Milton Chen Joins Michael Dell on mHealth Panel at Dell World in Austin

Dell World 2014 got off to a great start yesterday. VSee CEO Milton Chen was at the Executive Summit Healthcare Leadership Forum speaking about how healthcare will be impacted by the 28 billion “things” that will be connected to the Internet by 2020. If you missed yesterday’s discussion, Milton will be joining…

Emergency Medicine Needs to Get on Board with Telemedicine

VSee headed out to ACEP14 conference ready to show emergency physicians how easy it was to do telemedicine with VSee’s simple OneClick Waiting Room and Medical Cloud Office. We were surprised to find that very few emergency medicine physicians at ACEP were interested in doing telemedicine. Despite recent HRSA grants for tele-emergency…