telemedicine

1Minuut Innovation's encrypted offering embraces augmented reality eyewear to enable hands-free clinician-to-clinician video. 

The Teladoc Global Care service supports remote care in more than 20 languages.

The company has partnered with hospitals, medical systems, and industry associations to help doctors connect virtually to their own patients.

Virtual telephone or video care will be available at no cost, with some offers lasting for several weeks. 

Researchers at Purdue University have developed a new system that lets young doctors in the field get support from experinced physicians via drones and AR glasses. 

This week virtual care provider Teladoc Health was busy, releasing news about a new product launch and a separate good will initiative.

Minneapolis, Minnesota-based Zipnosis, which offers whitelabeled telemedicine tools to providers, quietly raised a $3 million funding round last week.

Eighty-seven percent of Americans used at least one digital health tool in 2017, up from 80 percent in 2015, according to a new survey out from Rock Health.

SOC Telemed (formerly Specialists on Call) announced yesterday that it has acquired behavioral health telemedicine company JSA Health, and will be adding JSA Health’s services to its acute telemedicine platform.

Telemedicine options for employers in the United States are approaching ubiquity — a National Business Group on Health survey last year found that 96 percent of employers planned to offer telemedicine services to employees this year.