It’s November and that means it’s National Diabetes Month. Most people have some awareness of what diabetes is; many have family members or friends with Type 1 or Type 2...
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When people think of a typical telemedicine scenario, they often picture a patient who can’t get to a hospital. A soldier wounded in the field, an elderly man with mobility...
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The American nightmare that is the opioid epidemic affects everyone. More than 130 people die of an overdose every day; every 25 minutes a baby is born suffering from opioid...
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Here’s what an ideal world might look like for older patients and their caregivers. Your father who has Parkinson’s disease dials up his neurologist for his quarterly appointment. Over video...
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100 years ago, a third of the world’s population became sick. One of the most disastrous pandemics in human history, the outbreak spread rapidly from nation to nation, infecting people...
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Like death and taxes, nothing is certain in medical life except no-show appointments. Rates vary widely, but one study came up with an average no-show rate of 24.8 percent –...
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Imagine that you’re a surgeon in a large hospital network. A patient has presented to the emergency department with a ruptured ovarian cyst; before you operate, you use the surgical...
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One of every three patients are sent to a specialist each year in United States. Because specialists offer more advanced care than primary care doctors, they’re almost guaranteed to play a...
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If you had to guess which group used telemedicine the most, what would your answer be? If you guessed mothers, you are correct. According to CNBC, telemedicine leaders report that...
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Recently GlobalMed’s Chief Clinical Officer Gigi Sorenson and Chief Medical Information Officer Dr. Dean Smith presented talks about disaster recovery and telemedicine at the International Conference on Disaster Medicine and Hurricane Resiliency. Hosted by Society for Disaster Medicine, the St. Maartens conference focused on public health challenges after hurricanes. Any…