Saturday 5 March 2016

Lawmakers Looking Into Virtual Health Care Regulations

Getting the benefits of a doctor’s visit all without leaving home. Some Minnesota companies are paving the way to ramp-up virtual health care. Lawmakers are looking into whether our state is ready to handle what could be the future of health care.

Do you think you have pink eye? A bladder infection? With the option of telemedicine, you don’t have to go into a clinic to get help.

The chairman of the U.S. House Health IT Caucus is a Minnesotan. Congressman Erik Paulsen visited Minneapolis-based Zipnosis to learn more about telemedicine and figure out if laws should be changed.

The health clinic of the future could be in your computer.

“Our hypothesis is every single health system in the country will have to build by some sort of virtual access in the next 5 years,” said Jon Pearce, CEO of Zipnosis. For the full article click here 



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