Donna Fuscaldo, FOXBusiness
“The doctor will see you now, but not in the typical office setting with you sitting on the examining table.
Drug store operator Rite Aid (RAD: 1.54, +0.03, +1.99%) is offering people that live in the greater Detroit area the ability to engage in virtual doctor’s visits.
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Hiep Nguyen, Vector
“Robotic technology can take many forms. In the Department of Urology at Children’s Hospital Boston, we are evaluating a remotely controlled, videoconferencing robot on wheels to help transition our patients’ care to the home after surgery.
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Erin France, Online Athens
“Some doctors already use the Internet’s ability to provide almost-instant communication to help treat patients.
But as technology improves, advances in telemedicine are moving more and more doctor-patient consultations into the virtual world.
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Shea Steinberg, EHR Bloggers
“Last week, I was ill. I was coughing, sweating, aching, spinning, you name it. With a whole mess of sickness flowing through my immune system, I had little to no energy left to be my ol’ self. I haven’t been this sick in a long time and haven’t taken into account how thankful I am to be living in a digital age.
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Pauline W. Chen, The New York Times
“For over a decade now, health care experts have been promoting telemedicine, or the use of satellite technology, video conferencing and data transfer through phones and the Internet, to connect doctors to patients in far-flung locales. But are doctors ready for this form of technology?
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Bruce Friedman, Lab Soft News
“I, like Rashid Bashshur, am tired of the constant whining from physicians like Dr. Himmelstein about the “impracticality” of virtual patient visits. Here’s a pop quiz designed specifically for him. When a plumber comes to your house to repair a leaky pipe and opens his tool box, how many different tools do you think that he will bring with him? [Answer: Many] That’s right, Dr. Himmelstein.
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Claire Cain Miller, The New York Times
“Americans could soon be able to see a doctor without getting out of bed, in a modern-day version of the house call that takes place over the Web.
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Anna Wilde Mathews, The Wall Street Journal
“This year, 39% of doctors said they’d communicated with patients online, up from just 16% five years earlier, according to health-information firm Manhattan Research, a unit of Decision Resources Inc.
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PhysOrg.com
“Travelers book plane tickets online, bank customers can check their accounts at any computer, and busy families can grocery shop online. Someday, even doctor visits could be among the conveniences offered via the Internet.
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iMarketInsights
“The “virtual doctor visit” is a relatively new concept in health care provision.
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“At a Live Chat today with Dr. Jason Hwang co-author of The Innovator’s Prescription: A Disruptive Solution for Health Care, (Sponsored by the World Healthcare innovation and Technology Congress) I asked him how he saw the recent and fast paced developments in mobile phone applications and technology having an impact on health care.”
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Fred Fortin, AJFortin.com, 23 September 2008
“A new Web site launched Tuesday offers the ability to talk to local physicians online through text, voice or video.
TalktoaDoc. org aims at giving patients a more convenient way to communicates with their physicians and is done in real time.”
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Bernie Monegain, Healthcare IT News, 8 July 2008
“Although he had never met her, Dr. William Marshall knew a lot about Paulette Schlander.
He knew that Schlander, who lives in Duluth, had gone to Africa on safari with her husband last fall.
He knew, too, that the 58-year-old dental assistant started experiencing strange muscle pains about a month later.
Now he was trying to figure out whether the two events were connected.
In the past, Marshall, an infectious disease expert at the Mayo Clinic, would have invited her to Rochester for a full exam. This time, he didn’t have to.
For the past year, he and other Mayo physicians have been offering “virtual consults,” or second opinions by e-mail, to a Duluth clinic, SuperiorHealth Center, where Schlander is a patient.”
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Maura Lerner, Star Tribune (Minneapolis-St. Paul), 8 June 2008
