Post updated 8/6/2020 VSee is honored to be selected as NASA’s official video conferencing platform aboard the International Space Station (ISS).  With VSee’s secure video chat astronauts are able to do telemedicine video conferencing, have family video chats, collaborate with scientists in real time, do projects with school children, and…

Updated 3/19/2015 – all clients now released. Please see full change list and version numbers below. For better app sharing over poor networks and a cleaner chat UI, please update your VSee to Windows – version 15.0.0.223 (20073) Mac version 2.8 (20125) iPad 3.0 (20122) iPhone 1.6 (20095) Android 1.2…

Thanks to Travis McKnight for today’s post! Travis is a journalist who discusses medicine, science and technology. Follow him on Twitter @Khellendos. A health care study reports that a significant portion of surveyed small medical practices and medical billing companies are not compliant with the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act’s…

VSee has partnered with MyVitalz, a company that provides simple remote patient monitoring for the home. With MyVitalz, patients keep their care team updated with their biometric health data (such as pulse and temperature) once they return home from the hospital. Now, with VSee’s Virtual Waiting Room integrated into MyVitalz, patients…

Please make sure you are on the latest version of VSee: Windows version 15.0.0.121 (19918) Mac version 2.7.3 (19918) iPad 2.9.3 (19918) iPhone 1.5.3 (19918) Android 1.1.3 (19918) Changes for Android, iPad, iPhone, Mac and Windows: Updated VSee API support for call analytics

Dear Friends, 2014 was a pivotal year for us as the telemedicine and telehealth markets finally exploded. We have been working with visionaries such as MDLIVE-Walgreens, Focus Cura, Intermountain Healthcare, and Mayo Clinic for a number of years. And now everyone else is knocking down our doors wanting telemedicine! Doctors…

We recently received this thank-you letter from Jonathan Berkowitz, LAc, who runs Inquisitive Owl Acupuncture in San Francisco: Our practice was actually designed with hardworking software engineers in mind. Telemedicine is quite useful for people who work long hours, and who can’t take time away from the office. In addition,…

We’ve brought you some VSee bug fixes just in time for your Thanksgiving VSee calls with friends and family. Check to see if you’re updated to the latest version: Windows version 14.0.0.1126 (19755) Mac version 2.7.1 (19755) Android 1.1.1 (19755) iPad 2.9.1 (19755) – available next week iPhone 1.5.1 (19755)…

Telemedicine has passed the tipping point. Two recent surveys of healthcare providers show that telemedicine, if not quite a mature industry, has at least achieved mainstream acceptance. In a survey by the Academy of Integrative Health & Medicine (AIHM), two-thirds of respondents said that they “are either using telemedicine to…

For the last few years, Verizon has been one of the titans leading the charge into the telemedicine space. Verizon had a big presence at tradeshows such as mHealth. They issued RFPs for video conference and telemedicine platforms to create their offerings, and created a huge buzz about the new Verizon…

With the walls coming down on telemedicine reimbursement and physician licensing, many doctors are looking to start practicing telemedicine –  either adding telemedicine to their services or starting their own online clinic. We’ve been talking with front line telemedicine practitioners about their biggest pain points in doing telemedicine and discovered that there…

Five years ago when Dr. Nicholas Jenner began exploring the idea of online therapy there were very few online counselors or telemental health services. Like most people in private practice then, his motivation was simply to save his clients a drive from one place to another. Instead, online counseling ended up saving…

American International College (AIC) in Springfield, MA uses VSee telemedicine technology as part of an innovative academic program that trains nursing, physical therapy and occupational therapy students to conduct telehealth visits. In the telehealth model patients and care providers are at a distance, which, among other benefits, helps expand access…

Being on the front lines of Ebola containment is a frightening job. Protective measures include setting up check-in stations outside of the hospital, wearing heavy duty face shields and decontamination suits, duct-taping layers of gloves to sleeves, and using telemedicine technology. In fact, Nebraska Medical in the lonely Midwest has…

Last week ended on a high note for telemedicine advocates with CMS adding 7 new codes to the Medicare telemedicine billing schedule that will be reimbursed for 2015. The new services include: psychotherapy prolonged office visits annual wellness visit and related matters remote chronic care management remote patient monitoring The proposed CMS physician fee schedule also included…

Dell World 2014 got off to a great start yesterday. VSee CEO Milton Chen was at the Executive Summit Healthcare Leadership Forum speaking about how healthcare will be impacted by the 28 billion “things” that will be connected to the Internet by 2020. If you missed yesterday’s discussion, Milton will be joining…

VSee headed out to ACEP14 conference ready to show emergency physicians how easy it was to do telemedicine with VSee’s simple OneClick Waiting Room and Medical Cloud Office. We were surprised to find that very few emergency medicine physicians at ACEP were interested in doing telemedicine. Despite recent HRSA grants for tele-emergency…

Emergency health care workers –- such as those on the front lines combating Ebola in Nigeria –- are already using VSee for Ebola treatment. This week, a number of VSee customers contacted us to set up Ebola isolation units inside their hospital. The setup is simple: just load the free…

Telemedicine could save US companies $6 billion a year in health care costs, according to a survey by Towers Watson. Writing about workplace telemedicine, Dan Verel of MedCity News says it means that “employees will no longer have to leave the office to go to the doctor for non-emergencies.” Fewer…

VSee will be exhibiting at the ACEP14 conference in Chicago, IL this year in booth #1911. ACEP is the American College of Emergency Practitioners, and their members include many health care providers who could benefit from using VSee technology. And many of them already do. VSee will be showcasing our…