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04/10/2013

When It Comes to the Future of Wireless Sensors in Health Care: The Sky's the Limit

AudioMehran Mehregany of Case Western Reserve University, Ben Kanter of Palomar Health, Joe Smith of the West Health Institute and Mark Winter of the Qualcomm Tricorder X Prize spoke with iHealthBeat about how wireless sensor technology could improve health care delivery.

02/27/2012

New California Law Seeks To Expand Telehealth Services for Medicaid Beneficiaries

AudioApril Armstrong and Thomas Nesbitt of the University of California-Davis Health System, Mario Gutierrez of the Center for Connected Health Policy, Jen Lang-Ree, a nurse practitioner in California, and Jonathan Lopez, a dermatology patient, spoke with iHealthBeat about a new state law that expands and streamlines telehealth services in the state.

10/11/2011

Wendy Everett of NEHI Discusses How New Technologies Can Improve Care, Cut Costs

VideoWendy Everett, founding president of the New England Healthcare Institute, spoke with iHealthBeat about efforts to encourage health care providers to adopt innovative electronic health systems that could improve health care quality and reduce costs.

08/10/2011

Millions of Dollars in Federal Broadband Funds Fail To Reach Rural Health Care Providers

AudioJonathan Linkous, CEO of the American Telemedicine Association, Mark Goldstein of the Government Accountability Office, Carol Mattey of the Federal Communications Commission and Dale Alverson, director of the University of New Mexico's Center for Telehealth and Cybermedicine, spoke with iHealthBeat about FCC's efforts to distribute federal broadband funds to underserved areas.

06/08/2011

CMS Rule Takes Aim at Telehealth Barriers; Stakeholders Say More Still Needs To Be Done

AudioGary Capistrant of the American Telemedicine Association, Scott Cooper of CMS' Office of Clinical Standards and Quality, and Scott Simmons of the University of Miami's Miller School of Medicine spoke with iHealthBeat about a new CMS rule that eases the process for the credentialing and privileging of telehealth practitioners.

12/15/2010

Use of Mobile Health Apps Expected To Skyrocket, Sparking Rise of New Questions

AudioBrian Ahier of Oregon's Health Information Technology Oversight Council, Ralf-Gordon Jahns of research2guidance and Peter Waegemann of mHealth Initiative spoke with iHealthBeat about the growing popularity of mobile health.

12/08/2010

Earl Ferguson of the Southern Sierra Telehealth Network on Using Technology To Improve Care

VideoEarl Ferguson, director of the Southern Sierra Telehealth Network, spoke with iHealthBeat about how telemedicine tools can help people in rural areas obtain access to primary care providers and specialists.

09/15/2010

HHS Funding Looks To Meet Challenges of Providing Health Care in Rural Areas

AudioTed Epperly of the American Academy of Family Physicians, Sherilyn Pruitt of HHS' Office for the Advancement of Telehealth and Dylan Roby of UCLA's School of Public Health discuss federal funding aimed at supporting rural health care.

09/08/2009

Videoconferencing Tools Help Specialists Evaluate Stroke Patients in Remote Areas

AudioNancy Edwards of Tobey Hospital, Doug Romer of Grande Ronde Hospital and Lee Schwamm of Massachusetts General Hospital spoke with iHealthBeat about how telemedicine tools can improve stroke care in rural areas.

05/19/2009

Monitoring Devices for Astronauts Could Be Used in Surgical, Trauma, Battlefield Care

AudioBret Nicks of Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center, Babs Soller and Matthias Walz of the University of Massachusetts and Jeffrey Sutton of the National Space Biomedical Research Institute spoke with iHealthBeat about the tools.

09/30/2008

Psychiatric Telemedicine Helps Bring Relief To Shortage of Mental Health Professionals

AudioPeter Yellowlees of the University of California-Davis, Randall Hagar of the California Psychiatric Association and Scott Zeller of the American Association for Emergency Psychiatry discussed the growing demand for telepsychiatry.

08/22/2008

California Doctors Use Telemedicine To Diagnose, Treat Stroke Patients Remotely

AudioRon Fellman of BF Technologies, Walter Koroshetz of the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Strokes and Brett Meyer of the University of California-San Diego Stroke Center discussed the use of telemedicine for stroke care.

07/15/2008

New Company Plans To Provide Patients With 24-Hour Online Access to Physicians

AudioRoy Schoenberg, president of American Well; Michael Stollar, vice president of marketing for Hawaii Medical Services Association; and Robert Berenson, senior health policy fellow at the Urban Institute, discuss offering patients 24-hour online access to doctors.

06/13/2008

Project Tests Handheld Devices To Monitor Chronic Disease in Low-Income Area in Houston

AudioUniversity, hospital and community leaders involved in a new project spoke with iHealthBeat about the use of handheld wireless devices to monitor the health of patients in low-income areas.

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