telemedicine

Telemedicine has been around for a number of years, but it's not yet an everyday channel for patients to receive care.

Sotera Wireless's ViSi Mobile monitor.

Source: Reddit About a year ago when Google launched its video chats service and directory Helpouts, which connects people to experts in a wide variety of fields, reports emerged that the search giant was now offering video visits with doctors.

Kaiser Permanente CEO Bernard Tyson believes three major trends are driving changes in the healthcare system, he said during his keynote on the final day of the Health 2.

San Francisco-based Sense.

Apple made its long-awaited wearable announcement today at a special event in Cupertino, as well as showing off the iPhone 6 and the new, larger iPhone 6 plus.

Remote monitoring of patients with implantable cardiac devices reduced the mortality rate for cardiac patients by 50 percent and improved their clinical status by nearly 10 percent in a randomized control trial recently published in The Lancet.

Forty-six percent of healthcare providers answering a HIMSS survey used multiple telemedicine technologies in their practice, with the most popular technology by far being two-way video messaging.

Global professional services firm Towers Watson says telemedicine could potentially save US employers $6 billion a year.

Iowa-based TelePharm has raised $2.