The American Lung Association reports that over 12 million adults in the US suffer from Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD). COPD patients with smartphones are in luck. You can now be informed if the environment you are in is safe for your condition. A recent...
The doctor can see you now, and literally see your whole body from the comfort of his smart-phone. The smart pill system; a new form of medical technology, allows a sensor to be ingested into your body, sending signals to your doctor's smart-phone, informing them...
Patients no longer need to travel to the doctor and wait countless minutes for their annual vision test. They can now complete this daunting task out of the comfort of their own home using an iPhone. The company, Virtual Art and Science, developed the Federal...
South Carolina is pushing an affordable, accessible health care plan to elementary schools. Chester Park Elementary, located in Chester County South Carolina, has adopted a Telemedicine program to help get sick kids back into the classroom in a more productive and timely manner. After a...
With today's cutting edge technology in the healthcare industry, i.e. Telemedicine, residents of nursing homes can now avoid the high cost of Medicare and hospital visits. According to a study preformed by David C. Graboski of Harvard Medical School and A. James O'Malley of The Dartmouth...
Patients with high blood pressure know how important it is to be involved in a care program to control their hypertension. A recent study showed that with the use of telemedicine and the improved health care technology, patients seem to be motivated to better manage...
Telestroke is saving the lives of millions of individuals providing fast and accurate care, which is hard to find even in emergency rooms today. “Stroke patients living in rural areas who receive care via a Telestroke network see, on average, nearly $1,500 in lower costs...
Recently, the United States Department of Agriculture announced the funding of $16 million in grants dedicated to expand distance learning and telemedicine services. This will provide healthcare access to millions of residents in rural areas through telecommunication improvements, and will include expanded educational opportunities for...
Telemedicine, the remote diagnosis and treatment of patients by means of telecommunications technology is a powerful emerging tool in the battle to provide affordable and accessible healthcare. Telemedicine technologies are quickly becoming a serious option to healthcare providers seeking to extend the reach of care...
SnapMD Appoints Mr. Jack Steele as Member of its Advisory Board Executive Director at The Advisory Board Company and previous Chairman and CEO of ActiveStrategy brings wealth of excellence to telemedicine cloud-software company. Los Angeles, CA (PRWEB) January 28, 2014 SnapMD, the leading private-label enterprise telemedicine software company,...
