WellPoint, the largest health benefits company in the US, announced an agreement with American Well to adopt their Online Care physician-to-patient webcam/telephone service at AHIP 2010.  It will be available in ‘select markets’ (presumably TBD) in 4th Quarter 2010.  Release.  At the Health 2.0… Read moreAmerican Well adds WellPoint (US)

UnitedHealth Group, which serves more than 75 million people in the US, is rolling out a telemedicine initiative called Connected Care which they describe as the first nationwide network that connects patients to primary care physicians, specialists and hospitals. Using… Read moreUnitedHealth Group’s telemedicine initiative in national rollout (US)

Following on to our earlier and more hopeful report [TA 26 May], the change in staff credentialing rules that would facilitate telemedicine by permitting a hospital to rely on a partner facility or even a third party to furnish credentialing and… Read moreEasing of hospital staff credentialing for telemedicine delayed (US)

Minnesota’s long been an established healthcare and medical device center, and a pioneer of technology in senior communities (for instance, telecare adoption from 2005 on)–but the news that Minneapolis-St.Paul is emerging as a hub of innovation in iPhone and iPod apps is still…surprising.  Leading off:  a ‘clinic in poc’, heart sounds monitoring, digital microscope images to iPhone.