Syrian refugee camp patients waiting to be seen as we unload our equipment. Duhok (Dohuk or Dahuk) is about an hour from the Turkish border of Iraqi Kurdistan We hit the ground running on day two of the medical outreach, following the medical training symposium on Sunday.  The medical outreach…

updated: 1/20/2014 VSee CEO Milton Chen and VSee Director of Telehealth Becky Wai traveled to Kurdistan, Iraq this week to participate in a week-long humanitarian surgical and medical outreach trip  sponsored by Operation Hope (OH), World Surgical Foundation (WSF), American Hepato-Pancreato-Biliary Association (AHPBA), The American Kurdish Medical Group (AKMG) and Otorhinologic Research Institute (ORI).  The goal…

This year’s annual CES 2014 in Las Vegas saw  Intermountain Healthcare Transformation Lab showcasing their VSee-powered tele-NICU prototype. Using VSee secure video chat, a Mac mini, and 3 Logitech 920 webcams, Intermountain created a special telehealth system just for the NICU.  It allows both remote doctors and parents to check up on…

It may be time to give VSee group video chat a whirl now that OpenTok (WebRTC version) 1-on-1 calls are no longer free.  Not only are VSee 1-on-1 calls always free, even group video calls are always free. OpenTok is now requiring everyone to pay at least 50 bucks a month…

VSee for Windows now supports the medical device peripheral Aurical GN Otocam 300. Please update to version 14.0.0.109 Special thanks to Eric for this update! To see if you are on the latest version of VSee: Windows version 14.0.0.109  – Click the Help icon in the address book –>select “About VSee…” and see if…

Special thanks to the VSee iOS team for the VSee for iPad 2.4 release new features!   What’s new: Annotate received app shares with free draw lines or typed text Manage groups in the address book Display network and other statistics Improved video quality for average and high bandwidth users…

Don’t miss VSee this week, December 9-11, at the 5th Annual mHealth Summit, in booth #319, exhibit hall C.  With exciting past keynote speakers such as Bill Gates, first Chief Technology Officer of the U.S., Aneesh Chopra, and 18th Surgeon General Regina Benjamin, the mHealth Summit is a unique event the brings together…

Trips like our recent Shell Nigeria deployment continue to remind me why new healthcare technology like VSee telehealth is so important.  For those who don’t have access to advanced medical care, telemedicine really does make a difference. Getting to meet real doctors and patients and seeing the impact of a…

Happy Black Friday! Please make sure your VSee is updated to the latest version for more call stability: Windows version 13.0.0.1129 Windows: Fixed call recovery problem in meetings after a crash. Fixed presence status for offline contacts after network reconnects Added ability to play chat alert through a chosen device…

VSee for iPhone is here! Get your VSee iPhone app now – secure group video chat, screen share and text chat for telehealth and more!

Just for the record, while SBR Health (secure video-based solutions for the creation of virtual healthcare delivery networks) did come out of VSee (secure video conference + screen share for telehealth), they are two separate companies without any business ties.  I get asked about the relationship between SBR Health and VSee all the time…

Improved video quality, ability to add contacts to multiple groups, native VSee for Mac recording and more.  Please make sure you’re on the latest version of VSee to give yourself the best call experience: Windows version 13.0.0.1111 Mac version 2.2 (16814) Special thanks to John for fixing a critical crash on the VSee…

Former designer of the Polycom RPX room system and video conferencing consultant, Bryan Hellard fell in love with Zoom.us during a period of testing and writing reviews of various software-based video conferencing apps. For him, Zoom.us was the best thing (in terms of video quality) that he had tested in a long…

VSee was chosen as one of the Top 5 Most Promising Health Companies out of all the exhibitors at this year’s HealthTech Conference 2013.  As a Top 5 company, we got to do an American Idol-style pitch to the audience with feedback from investors such as Psilos Group, West Health,…

Ringadoc, a hot startup funded by the prestigious Founders Fund, began as a virtual doctor consultation platform and was actually selling video calling when it launched around September of 2011.  In  mid-May of 2013, Ringadoc injected another $700K to its coffers for a total of $1.9M in seed funding.  It…

Shell has been a longtime user of VSee video chat tool. VSee’s easy-to-use low-bandwidth technology makes it well suited for gas and oil companies.  With workers in remote areas and often harsh environments, VSee has been delivering clear video along with real-time data for Shell workers in hard to reach places.   With the development…

An unexpected large UPS package showed up on our doorstep the other day. It was a stack of four Lou Malnati’s Chicago-style pizza pies. It turns out that one of our eVisit platform customers, Health As We Age (HAWA), has been so happy with our services and our flexibility in…

Now you can go wireless with new Bluetooth headset support on VSee for iPad! Update your VSee for iPad to version 2.3 (16599) for this feature and more: Added support for deleting chat/call history Added support for receiving annotations on app share from Mac Added support for Bluetooth headsets Updated audio…

“I feel like Thomas Edison…we don’t know how something works, but we know 200 ways not to do something, and so far, VSee has proven to be the best tool on the field.” – Randy Roberson, Disaster Relief Specialist (Video link:  VSee in Action- HELP Telemedicine in Haiti) Fifteen years ago, a…