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afwriter
afwriter
5/16/2016 5:38:15 PM
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Security
I think that above all else they need to worried about security and patient confidentiality. 

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clrmoney
clrmoney
5/16/2016 2:55:56 PM
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Health check
Maybe they should check their apps or troubleshoot the problem for telemeding so that it can function properly etc.

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Ariella
Ariella
5/16/2016 11:05:27 AM
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telemedicine
This corresponds to what I found here:

By 2012, Verizon Chief Executive Officer  Lowell McAdam said his company was "focused on enabling the transformation" of the health-care industry, backed up by the $10 billion the company spent over the past decade on fiber-optic networks, data centers and network security. But the health-care bet has yet to pan out.

"The carriers haven't done a good job of moving into the hospital setting and investing the time and money to live in the footsteps of the providers," said Lee Schwamm, medical director of telehealth at Massachusetts General Hospital. "It's always been a side business to them."

Both AT&T and Verizon have succeeded in building businesses handling data connections and electronic records for hospitals, but for the most part U.S. wireless carriers remain on the health care sidelines. 

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