Eric has had a crazy and amazing week bringing the VSee telemedicine suitcase into the jungles of Gabon. He has been setting up VSee satellite calls to bring Harvard doctors and Albert Schweitzer Hospital doctors face to face virtually for telehealth consultations. And he has been training medical staff to use the VSee telemedicine…
Telehealth Use Case
At the recent American Telemedicine Association (ATA) conference in Austin, TX, Intermountain Healthcare demo-ed their innovative use of VSee for a tele-neonatal intensive care unit (NICU). Key to their setup was VSee’s ability to simultaneously send multiple camera video streams. Legacy video conference systems such as Vidyo, Polycom, and Cisco can only…
VSee started as a simple desire to create a group video chat app that 1) didn’t drop calls and freeze video like Skype, that 2) protected privacy by not going through servers like Google Hangouts, and that 3) made collaboration extremely easy. The result was a simple low bandwidth video conference and fast…
Last week, a wildfire outbreak shut down some main roads near my home for 2 days. Luckily no one was hurt, and there was little damage to homes, but this isn’t always the case. Award-winning author Maxine Hong Kingston once lost the entire manuscript of her new book to an…
The Austin Vibe is a family-owned business and an adventure in building beautiful spaces. It brings together the vision and creative passions of Taryn Kuczynski, Wade Knowlin, and Sean James in a style they describe as “eclectic sophistication meets fun and funk.” We recently received a thank you note from them, telling…
What makes VSee a compelling tool? Quality video, ease of use, network cost savings Stephen Otienostiv is a visiting scholar at York University from Kenya. A longtime Skype user, he found that Skype simply couldn’t cut it when it came to video chats with his family back in Kenya. It…
In the developing world burns are common as most people cook over fires. Clothing catches on fire, hot oil gets spilled and lives are forever changed or often even lost. Over the holidays our friend Randy Roberson from Disaster Logistics Relief (DLR) shared with us how VSee telemedicine has been…
For supervisors of technology Redell Louis and Kellie LeBlanc, video conferencing was a necessity. The question was how to get it. Continue Reading…
maternity ward at Albert Schweitzer In a previous blog post, Penny talked about the unique opportunity we had to travel to Gabon to deploy VSee telemedicine for the The Albert Schweitzer Hospital (HAS). The hospital was the first one to be established in Gabon nearly 100 years ago and continues…
I don’t of know of too many tech startups that would send you to Africa on a humanitarian trip, but I just got back from an amazing trip to the West African country of Gabon. It’s a small, beautiful country of about 5 1.5 million people located on the equator just…
Are VSee and ooVoo really that different? After all we both claim to have HD video conference, ongoing collaboration, free video calls, and no need for fancy equipment. While I can’t tell you if VSee is the ooVoo alternative for your needs, I will point out some issues with video quality,…
A couple of days ago, Milton got to share VSee with sales guru and SalesOpShop CEO Gerhard Gschwandtner. He was quite impressed with VSee’s 1. Smooth video 2. One click desktop screen sharing 3. Window to window file sharing 4. Recording function with great audio/video sync. Check out Mr. Gschwandtner’s VSee interview with Milton on how…
Support VSee and vote today for the “Expect Telemedicine” video featuring VSee at work in Haiti. Help move us into first place for the ATA Telemedicine Video Contest! Voting ends tomorrow, Friday, September 7. VSee really makes telemedicine work in rural Haiti. It has provided healthcare to 10,000 to 20,000 Haitians who…
VSee is a robust online-based video tool that can be utilized in a number of applications. One of them is the field of human resource recruiting and training which I work on a fair bit. Thanks to the ease of creating and maintaining the video sessions, I find the combination…
On June 19th in Rio De Janeiro, global leaders such as Ted Turner and Richard Branson assembled to have a conversation with people around the world about how technology and social media have impacted conversations about global social issues. Complementing the concurrent United Nations Rio+20 conference, the Rio+Social conference included…
We just learned that long-time VSee users Gabriel and Katie-Jay Stauring used VSee to connect from different sides of the globe while Katie-Jay was in labor with their first child! Gabriel and Katie-Jay run i-ACT, a grassroots organization that combines innovative technology with personal connection to help victims of mass…
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One of the things I love about working at VSee is hearing stories about how VSee makes a real difference in people’s lives. For some, VSee’s ability to deliver video over limited network capacities makes it the only means for them to access needed medical care or to see far away family.…
The young Burmese mother had given up trying to communicate with doctors and nurses through the hospital’s occasional face-to-face interpreter. She had been in the hospital with her sick 18-month-old baby for several days and was overwhelmed with frustration at being unable to express her concerns and to understand what was happening. Fortunately,…
A big thanks to guest blogger Cyndi Laurenti for her research on how telemedicine and telesurgery are positively affecting the developing world. Cyndi recently graduated with a degree in International Relations and is interested in how public policy affects all spheres of life. She can be reached at laurenticy@gmail.com. Videoconferencing has provided…
