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International

So many types of telehealth

Posted on May 8, 2013 by Neil Versel

Here’s a short video (720p HD) I put together from the just-concluded American Telemedicine Association’s annual conference in Austin, Texas. No wonder it’s so hard to get a real sense of the size of the telehealth and telemedicine market when … Continue reading →

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Health eVillages and mobile health in the developing world

Posted on April 30, 2013 by Neil Versel

I’m in New York today for a Health eVillages board meeting. It’s a program that provides mobile health tools to help extend the reach and knowledge of health workers in remote and underserved parts of the world — including in … Continue reading →

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Attending Health 2.0? Donate your old smartphone

Posted on October 2, 2012 by Neil Versel

If you’re planning on attending the Health 2.0 conference in San Francisco next Monday and Tuesday, Health eVillages, a program of the RFK Center for Justice and Human Rights, will be collecting used Apple iOS and Android mobile devices. Health … Continue reading →

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Health eVillages is Monday’s AOL ’cause of the day’

Posted on September 17, 2012 by Neil Versel

Health eVillages, which I am on the advisory board of, has been selected as AOL’s “Cause of the Day” for Monday. That means it’s highlighted on the home page of AOL. If you have an old smartphone you’re not using, … Continue reading →

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Learn about Health eVillages at HIMSS12

Posted on February 12, 2012 by Neil Versel

Remember Health eVillages, the program launched last fall to bring mobile medical reference and decision support technology to clinicians in underserved parts of the world, including poor communities right here in the U.S.? You know, the project of the Robert … Continue reading →

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Podcast: mHealth Alliance Executive Director Patty Mechael

Posted on December 5, 2011 by Neil Versel

Patricia Mechael is the newly installed executive director of the mHealth Alliance, a joint effort of the United Nations Foundation, the Rockefeller Foundation and the Vodafone Foundation. The mHealth Alliance this week is joining with the Foundation of the National … Continue reading →

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Australia considers huge fines for EHR snooping

Posted on October 11, 2011 by Neil Versel

How’s this for a deterrent against unauthorized snooping into patient EHRs? Australian Health Minister Nicola Roxon recently proposed whopping fines of A$13,200 for individuals and A$66,000 for companies that illegally access patient records. The Aussie dollar is nearly on par … Continue reading →

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Announcing Health eVillages

Posted on September 26, 2011 by Neil Versel

I’m involved in this project that’s being announced right now. I’ll have my perspective in MobiHealthNews. Physicians Interactive and the Robert F. Kennedy Center for Justice and Human Rights Launch Health eVillages mHealth Initiative First-Ever Consortium of Healthcare and Human … Continue reading →

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Canadian town sets new standard for EMR resistance

Posted on August 2, 2011 by Neil Versel

I really would not want to live in Sarnia, Ontario. And not because it’s a hardscrabble Rust Belt town directly across the border from the equally hardscrabble—and very depressing—Port Huron, Mich. I wouldn’t want to live there because it might … Continue reading →

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CMIOs wanted in the UK

Posted on July 10, 2011 by Neil Versel

I’m getting ready to head west for, among other things, the annual AMDIS Physician-Computer Connection in Ojai, Calif., a high-level gathering of chief medical information officers. After years of fighting for a seat at the table, CMIOs now are being … Continue reading →

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