Telehealth 2.0 is the name of this year’s American Telemedicine Association (ATA) meeting and tradeshow at the Orlando Convention Center in Florida. This year, GlobalMed is demonstrating eNcounter 4 to attendees, our telemedicine software platform that works on tablets and smartphones as well as laptops and desktop computers. eNcounter now…
Florida has struggled to find a path to telemedicine parity for the past three or four years. Stymied by opposition in the last legislative session, lawmakers punted in 2016, creating a statewide Telehealth Advisory Committee to develop recommendations. The committee has submitted a preliminary report, and it concluded that the…
During the Arizona Legislative session in 2013, the original telemedicine parity bill for rural areas only received unanimous approval of both the Senate and the House. Then, during the 2016 session, a bill expanding parity to include the entire state received unanimous approval, and it takes effect on January 1,…
Representative Tom Price says he believes telemedicine can increase access to healthcare. Representative Price spent nearly four hours answering questions from members of the Senate Education, Health, Labor, and Pensions Committee today. The well-regarded Georgia orthopedic surgeon and Republican from that state was finally asked a question about telemedicine in…
Making the decision to keep a child home from school can be tricky. When a child wakes up with the sniffles, you check to see if his or her forehead is warm to the touch or at least thats what we did first when our son and daughter were of…
How doctors moral obligation plays into proposals to reform healthcare in the United States. When President Lyndon Johnson signed Medicare into law in 1965, the average life expectancy of Americans was 70. Many of the 19 million people who signed up for Medicare during that first year didnt make it…
Experts agree that work-life balance is important for physicians to avoid depression, even those who see patients remotely. Medical school studies and post-graduate training used to be the most trying periods of time for those who wish to practice medicine because of the number of hours demanded. A study in…