As technologies focus and expand, life is but a stream
By BRAD CARLSON // Streaming is one of those modern miracles we’ve already normalized. Click on a song, it plays. Click on a movie, it starts before the popcorn is…
telemedicine
With telehealth’s future on the line, Congress must act
By JERRY BALENTINE // Telemedicine is revolutionizing how we deliver healthcare and expanding access to medical services for patients throughout New York State – now, more than ever doctors, specialty…
Northwell, Aegis Caire enough to pick the very best
By GREGORY ZELLER // The former chief executive of the Mayo Clinic will head Northwell Health and Aegis Ventures’ latest innovative enterprise. Northwell Holdings, the New Hyde Park-based health system’s…
Government, industry must unite now on telemedicine
By JERRY BALENTINE // During the COVID-19 pandemic, telehealth platforms acted as a lifeline for New Yorkers to safely access medical services. The lasting effect of this increased use of digital-health services will be nothing…
Northwell deploys telehealth to Ukraine’s eastern front
By GREGORY ZELLER // Northwell Health has opened a new front in the Ukraine War, running straight through New Hyde Park. With invading Russian forces pushing across Ukraine’s eastern border,…
IPS goes above and (Vision) Beyond with AR glasses
By GREGORY ZELLER // A decade-old technology has been re-tasked for a decidedly 21st Century mission. Or maybe 23rd Century: beaming doctors from one location to another, allowing a remote…
Corporate reinvention is key in a post-pandemic world
By TERRY LYNAM // Finally, after more than 14 months of heartache, isolation and economic fallout from the worst pandemic in our lifetime, we’re returning – ever so slowly –…
Cross-continental pilot links LI docs, Alaskan schools
By GREGORY ZELLER // A Long Island-based pediatrics practice is powering up a telemedicine program it claims can diagnose children, in real time, virtually anywhere – and it’s going about…
Telemedicine startup Call9 dials into LI
By GREGORY ZELLER // Call9, a Silicon Valley startup and Y Combinator star, has relocated its doctors-on-demand service for nursing homes to Long Island, with a planned push into dozens…