I have done a series of posts on how this is developing. Recently in the news Verizon is also partnering with Cisco.
Verizon Telehealth Service Teams Up with Cisco – Video Consultations Unveiled
When watching the video you will hear United Healthcare mentioned. Here’s a back track to a post in July of this year.
UnitedHealth To Spend Tens of Million of Dollars with Cisco to Build Nationwide Telehealth Network
In case you missed it, United has a recruitment process to get physicians to sign up to handle tele health visits, but read the fine print to make sure the partnership would be a good fit.
OptumHealth (Subsidiary of UnitedHealthCare) Teams Up With American Well for 24/7 Physician Consults
Here’s one more link to a past post that has some additional videos. United has run the mobile clinic through Congress and they came and went, but my feelings are still that they don’t get it, the technology of how this is to be used, funded, etc. and will impact healthcare. We want a good implementation here and not a service that will run algorithms to reduce care. I like all this stuff but again remain very cognizant on how patients are scored and sometimes dropped when they reach a level that shows they are no longer profitable on the computer screens used for decision making.
Cisco and Healthcare Technology – Hospitalist Avatar And Other Technologies On Display
With all the investments in technology sometimes with United, you might ponder this:
Are you insured by a technology or insurance company ...
Anyway, back on target here you can see that Cisco is moving forward in this area with telehealth and this is somewhat the future with saving time and cutting costs. Again, this still makes me wonder if health insurance should really be a non profit business as when running scoring algorithms to cut patients from the rolls, it tends to be contradicting itself. BD
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