Telehealth

Nonin Medical's Chris Holland and telehealth consultant Mark VanderWerf discuss the usability and logistics improvements Nonin made to its pulse oximeter to make it more desirable for the elderly.

Smartphones and tablets are among the mobile technologies in focus, which can be combined with telehealth video conferencing and healthcare wearables, as well as the deployment of electronic health record-based patient portals.

The portable point of care devices, which give remote providers the capability to image, measure and record wounds and skin healing data, will be deployed across Western Australia.

Livpact offers tools and resources to help adult children take care of aging parents with Alzheimer's or other chronic conditions, says MaryAnne Sterling, EVP of caregiver experience.

Nick Woods, co-founder of California-based Hazel Health, says virtual care delivered from the school nurse's office is improving students' access to doctors.

Longtime telemedicine pioneers from the provider and vendor sides see a near-term future of more efficient care, and describe a longer-term view of "virtualist centers in what were formerly known as hospitals."

Biorithm co-founder and CEO Amrish Nair describes how his company's sensors take care out of the hospital to wherever the expectant mom is.

More than half of those surveyed say online tools have helped improve their relationship with their primary care provider, with growing appetite for online chat and diagnosis tools.

With its smart sharps bin, HealthBeacon is going deep on one important medication adherence use case: self-administered injectables, says CEO Jim Joyce.