Cisco has recently released a free beta of their Macintosh and Windows videoconferencing client software. It is called Cisco Jabber Video for Telepresence (Movi). It is available in a couple of flavors, but the free version automatically logs into a…
After several weeks of using Skype Multi-Point Video connections for a three-location community-based Chair Tai Chi/Yoga program, we’ve come to some conclusions and “possible best” practices. 1. Skype multi-point video is available as part of the Skype business offering at…
In the “you’ve got to be kidding”… bin this morning, from Federal Telemedicine News: Ford, Microsoft Corp, and Healthrageous announced at the Digital Health Summit, that they plan to work together to develop connected devices to help people monitor and…
From Healthcare Payer News, Up to 10,000 Medicare patients with chronic conditions will be able to get most of the care they need at home under a new demonstration project developed by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services. The…
It is early days, however, Central Vermont Community Land Trust, has put together a chair Tai Chi/ Yoga program which they are delivering via Skype multipoint video. They held their first three-way video program with six participants at one senior housing…
We had a candid conversation with an IT person who supports telemedicine applications at a major research university. I thought it might be useful to post a de-identified version of the discussion, as it brought out a number of points,…
I found a terrific book Alone and Invisible No More by Allan Teer, M.D. about what he calls the Maine Approach. He has developed a methodology for support for aging at home that works several steps removed from a medical…
From the Disease Management Care Blog… Which reminds the DMCB of a parallel borg called the electronic health record (EHR). A eerily similar bipartisan government-industry ideology has somehow decreed that EHRs will increase clinical quality, enhance efficiency, promote safety and reduce costs. While the downsides…
According to an article in the New York Times, Google will discontinue Google Health, the personal health record portal that they began in 2008. Quoting from the blog post … Now, with a few years of experience, we’ve observed that…
Paul Krugman’s column in the New York Times this morning argues that having more people enrolled in Medicare will save money. And that, horrors, all the ideas being floated to “save Medicare”, are misplaced, indeed the ideas should be to…
