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Cisco taps Walgreens to provide telehealth to employees

In yet another solid move into the mHealth sphere--and into a possibly competitive position with hospitals--Walgreens has partnered with Cisco to provide telehealth and onsite clinical services to

Telemedicine key to growth of teleconferencing market

Telemedicine will be a key driver in the growth of the teleconferencing market, which was up 24 percent for the first six months of 2011, according to a new study from Infonetics Research, reports in

New specialty model for private-pay telehealth launches

Online telehealth service 2nd.MD has a new model for private-pay telehealth. Taking a slightly different tack from doctor-on-demand services like RelayHealth and American Well , 2nd.MD aims to help

More docs are using video chat for routine follow-up visits

A full 7 percent of physicians are using video-conferencing to talk with patients, according to new data released by Manhattan Research, from its 2011 Taking the Pulse study. Most interesting,

Work needed for Microsoft-Skype deal to fulfill its healthcare potential

Depending on the source, it seems that Microsoft's $8.5 billion acquisition of Skype last week either was a bad deal or a monumentally catastrophic one, although there are some out there who believe