VSee was a smashing success at this past weekend’s ATA show in Austin, TX. With a truly innovative approach to video conferencing, VSee telehealth completely stole the show from Polycom, Cisco, and Vidyo. The excited crowds kept the VSee team so busy throughout the entire conference that the team barely…

VSee was recently featured by the Hot Spots Movement, a specialist research and consulting team that focuses on building collaborative capability for their clients, and on future-proofing organisations. They are also the brains behind the Future of Work Research Consortium, which gathers thought leaders and innovators around the world to share models, insights, solutions and…

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…

Get a live demo of VSee Telehealth today in booth #712 at the ATA 2013 Meeting for Telemedicine, Telehealth, mHealth, eHealth, running May 5-7. 1.  VSee Telehealth offers simple, secure video chat with EHR-sharing and medical device streaming that anyone can use. 2.  VSee’s signature low-bandwidth video conference provides HD…

We’re super excited about our new release of VSee for iPad, which is now able to receive screen share and annotations from PC and Mac. We’ve also added group chat and made it easier to invite your friends and coworkers. Get the updated VSee iPad app now and enjoy free…

It’s easy to “mute” your VSee video for an audio-only conference.  Open your self-view video window and click on the webcam icon on the bottom left of your the window. If you mute the window during a call, the “muted” video setting will be saved for the next time you…

Intermountain Healthcare with the help of VSee telehealth technology is bringing parents of babies in neonatal intensive care units (NICUs) closer to their newborns. Intermountain is redesigning 65 beds at the NICU at the Utah Valley Regional Medical Center with 3 cameras (2 fixed and 1 rotating) that send 24-hour live video…

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…

Alarmist articles on Skype security risks for telehealth abound. The question is whether using Skype for telehealth really poses that serious of a security problem? Psychiatric Times weighed in on the issue with a well-cited article Telepsychiatry: The Perils of Using Skype, co-authored by the executive director of the TeleMental Health Institute, Marlene…

Unlike most video conference services, VSee gives you tons of control over how you want to display your video windows. Click on the icon with the four tiles in the top right corner of your video window for the “Arrange Video Windows” menu (pictured above).  Better yet, try these easy…

Telemedicine has long been touted as a means of making healthcare more accessible and cost-effective.  However, forces have never really come together to make it happen on a large scale. This year things may be changing.  Here are 5 disruptive trends Sande Olson, healthcare marketing communications and business development executive, says are bringing things to…

CNET recently featured a news article on how VSee helps maintain patient privacy for telemedicine. One commenter contended: “Why not just use FaceTime, Skype, Google Video, or whatever the patient already uses for video calls with friends & family…. My concern is that healthcare practitioners might slow telehealth adoption by forcing…

HIPAA Privacy Rule protections now give you the right to restrict what health treatment information gets sent to your health plan if you’ve paid for the treatment yourself. Sounds great in theory, but are physicians and hospitals ready to put this policy into practice? Modifications to the Health Insurance Portability and…

Please take a few moments to make sure your VSee has been updated to Windows version: 13.0.0.329 Mac version: 19.0 (15131) The following fixes and additions have been made: Improved call recovery after network losses Fixes for automatic video quality control during rapidly changing network quality Mac only Fixed rejoining group call issue…

With the updated Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) Final Rule going into effect starting next week, March 26, 2013, health care entities and health vendors will want to start looking into the way they manage patients’  protected health information, so they don’t get hit with a nasty fine. The final…

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…

Dear Marissa, At Heidy Maldonado’s wedding 10 years ago at the Stanford Memorial Church, I shared with you my dream of creating a simple tool that lets people work remotely with the same productivity of physically being together. I am now the CEO of VSee – a video chat and…

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…

VSee iPad app is out in the Apple App Store today! You can get the free download here. Humongous thanks to the VSee iOS team for their hard work, and thanks to our VSee fans for your patience 🙂 Move Over FaceTime The long awaited VSee for iPad allows group…