online physician visits

AMA ethics council pushes off telemedicine guidelines

By Brian Dolan 10:59 am June 10, 2015

This week the American Medical Association’s ethics council attempted to come to an agreement over a set of guidelines focused on ethical considerations related to the use of online or mobile visits between patients and physicians, but a physician from Texas helped convince the committee to rethink its plans. The guidelines were tabled and sent back to committee for further review. The earliest...

Three prank digital health products from April Fools' Day

By Brian Dolan 08:37 am April 2, 2014

The MobiHealthNews team received a number of emails about yesterday's -- completely made-up -- April Fools' Edition of the MobiHealthNewsletter. We're glad so many of you enjoyed it. If you didn't get a chance to read it yet, be sure to dig it out of your inbox -- it's a newsletter subscriber exclusive. And if you do re-visit it, please note there was a small mixup on one of the bylines -- our...