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Category: Telehealth
Three Ways Virtual Healthcare is Changing the Way Providers Treat Patients
Virtual care has come a long way in just the last five years. As commercial technology advances to the point where we can hold video conferences on our phones and transmit massive stores of data in minutes, these advances can help doctors deliver better care to patients who need it the most. While the upsides […]
Virtual Care: Empowering Patients and Providers for Better Healthcare
The future of healthcare is greater access to care providers, clinicians, specialists and the like anytime, anywhere, under any circumstance. It is the use of technology to enable patients to get access to the care they need and feel like they’re in the room with their care provider. Virtual care is poised to solve two […]
Three Ways Technology Has Made Our Lives Better
[The computer] was the first machine man built that assisted the power of his brain instead of the strength of his arm. – Grace Hopper, American computer scientist and United States Navy Rear Admiral. With the holiday season kicking into high gear, it’s a good time to reflect on how we can use technology to […]
Healthcare Technology and the Responsibility of Innovation
The Washington Business Journal just recently honored the Iron Bow team as a 2017 Innovation Award honoree for our Clinical Care Device – the CLINiC. And while I’m deeply grateful to be recognized as a tech solutions leader in the DC-area, the award speaks to a much larger point — innovation doesn’t only have to be […]
You’ve Heard of Telehealth, But Have You Considered Remote Wound Care?
Once only imagined in sci-fi movies, today, technology can monitor one’s health. Telehealth is an industry experiencing rapid growth due to technological advancements and the time and cost savings it brings to both the patient and provider. In fact, a UC Davis Study to determine cost savings of pediatric telehealth versus rural emergency departments revealed […]
Analytic Technologies are the Future of Physician-Patient Care
Clinicians drown in documentation, from justifying their treatment decisions to charting their compliance with the latest protocols – even in feeding electronic records systems. Once fed, these systems make it difficult to retrieve data important to clinical decision-making. Often in healthcare, too many technologies build barriers instead of bridges to finding crucial information and turning […]
How to Save A Life: Telehealth Innovation and the Department of Veterans Affairs
A U.S. soldier has just returned home from deployment. The past years of his life have been structured and strenuous, and he begins to notice that he is having trouble readjusting to the civilian lifestyle. The veteran is plagued with crippling fear and paranoia and struggles to socialize. The isolation leads to feelings of depression, […]
TED on the Move: Telehealth Provides Solutions to Veterans’ Healthcare Challenges
As Iron Bow’s TED (Telehealth Education Delivered) makes its way across the United States visiting hundreds of VA medical clinics and offices, we are taking the opportunity to talk with all of our TED partners about the many aspects of telehealth and how technology is evolving to help care teams, practitioners and specialists improve care, […]
Telehealth Eases Stress, Accelerates Diagnosis Time in Georgia
Iron Bow’s TED (Telehealth Education Delivered) truck hit the road again in 2016, making its way across the United States visiting hundreds of Veterans medical clinics and offices. While TED is on the go, we are taking the opportunity to talk with all of our TED partners about the many aspects of telehealth and how […]
Telehealth Solutions for Early Detection and Management of Chronic Disease
Iron Bow’s TED (Telehealth Education Delivered) truck hit the road again in 2016, making its way across the United States visiting hundreds of Veterans medical clinics and offices. While TED is on the go, we are taking the opportunity to talk with all of our TED partners about the many aspects of telehealth and how […]
Reliable Wound Surveillance Mitigates Risk for Telehealth Providers Author: Dr. Mark Nixon
As Iron Bow’s TED (Telehealth Education Delivered) makes its way across the United States visiting hundreds of VA medical clinics and offices, we are taking the opportunity to talk with all of our TED partners about the many aspects of telehealth and how technology is evolving to help care teams, practitioners and specialists improve care, […]
Interview with Hospedia: Delivering Better Care at the Bedside to Meet Diverse Cultural Needs
Iron Bow’s TED (Telehealth Education Delivered) hit the road again in 2016, making its way across the United States visiting hundreds of Veterans medical clinics and offices. While TED is on the go, we are taking the opportunity to talk with all of our TED partners about the many aspects of telehealth and how technology […]
PODCAST: Telehealth and Collaboration: You are One Acquisition Away from a Multi-Vendor Environment
Despite exploding popularity, there is only so much room for technology providers in the telehealth and collaboration markets, according to Dan Klanderman, Senior Solutions Architect for Iron Bow Technologies. He predicts continued consolidation through acquisitions and even market exits in 2016. To avoid being stuck with an obsolete technology, Klanderman suggests investing in collaboration technology […]
