VSee successfully concluded its 5th medical mission in the Philippines. This mission was held over three days, January 4 to 6 in the Taytay municipality of the Metro Manila capital region.  Together with its Local Government Unit (LGU) and 25 volunteers, our team served 322 patients from the underserved communities…

VSee kicked off 2023 with a 3-day medical mission serving 322 low-income patients at Taytay, Rizal from January 4 to 6. The team partnered with the office of municipal councilor Honorable Tobit Cruz to provide free telehealth and in-person doctor visits at Sitio Damayan Evacuation Site. In addition to free…

Summary: Taiwan is improving rural health center access to dermatology, ENT, and ophthalmology specialists with the VSee telehealth platform + Advantech’s mobile telemedicine cart solutions Enabling Timely Care with Specialist Access A lack of medical resources, lengthy travel times, and fear of COVID-19 transmission can cause treatment delays and result…

This August the VSee team returned to the Philippines on a new medical mission provide free telehealth and in-person doctor visits to the underserved.  We worked with a local nonprofit Soup Kitchen Cainta which serves scavenger children and elderly of Cainta Rizal in the eastern Metro Manila.  We served 153…

Photo by Mockup Graphics on Unsplash Today, chronic disease management continues to be one of the biggest challenges for both healthcare providers and their patients across the country.  One recent study shows that nearly half of all adults in the US have a chronic disease and, almost 33% of the…

Telemedicine abortion has been a hot topic recently with Planned Parenthood losing a “telemedicine abortion” ban suit against Iowa. Alana Semuels has explored the issue further in the Atlantic online, showing how telemedicine could impact women’s access to safe abortion. Writes Semuels, “there is one procedure that, though it could…

In July, a team of professionals from the University of Sao Paolo returned to the Amazon rainforest to support the populations of the Amazon rainforest. Led by Dr. Milton Yogi, an ophthalmic surgeon based in San Paolo, they have done this every year for the past 10 year. Dividing into…

I was talking with a dean at Middle Georgia State College, and he mentioned that two rural hospitals in their vicinity were closing down because they just weren’t getting enough patients (revenue) to keep the hospital running. The hospitals have probably been running at a deficit for years if they…

If you live in a metropolitan area, it’s easy to take for granted your ability to have health care choices when it comes which doctor you want to see.  But for those who live in remote and rural areas or underdeveloped countries like Africa, there may not even be an…

Join the conversation with other global practitioners of extreme remote and offshore medicine. The Institute of Remote Health Care (IRHC) is putting on its annual conference   September 11-12, 2013 at the the Suttie Centre for Teaching & Learning in Healthcare, Robert Gordon University of Aberdeen. Telemedicine and telehealth are essential components for those living…