For 20 years, advocates of telemedicine have been trying to break through to common usage. For all of modern human history, those with mental health challenges have held back from seeking treatment due to the stigma associated with doing so. [See the full post…]

Infectious disease physician, entrepreneur, and life-long innovator, Diego Miralles has pursued the frontiers of medicine on three continents, and in at least three distinct settings: academia, biotech startups, and the largest pharma company on earth, J&J. There, he founded both [See the full post…]

Emerging technologies bring not just profound opportunities but also vexing ethical dilemmas, involving issues such as privacy, consent, and access.

Today’s guest, Michelle Meyer, is a bioethicist and legal scholar who seeks to bring clarity and structure to this [See the full post…]

So much emphasis has been placed on fitness and wearables over the last five years and much has been made of whether these trackers can translate to better health or are just there to make people feel a sense of [See the full post…]

Nigeria is a country in need of fast solutions and perhaps the fastest solution is needed in healthcare. Conferencing technologies, which many in the developed world yawn at, are critical to making telemedicine work. But there’s more to deploying it [See the full post…]

Mike Journey works for GCI in Anchorage, Alaska. Developments in networking have allowed doctors in remote areas to offer specialized care to their patients. Listen to Mike talk about the advances in telemedicine in this podcast.

This Juniper Networks podcast [See the full post…]