SimpleVisit Blog Page

Browse through to find blogs about news and notes on telemedicine. 

Road to Reimbursement: Location

Road to Reimbursement: Location

Reimbursement policies usually present more of a challenge to telemedicine adoption than technology or training. Healthcare providers have reported high interest in offering remote care for their patients but question whether it makes good business sense if they...

Moonshot Interview with StartUp Health

Moonshot Interview with StartUp Health

Startup Health is an incubator and investing network “organizing a global army of entrepreneurs committed to achieving health moonshots”. SimpleVisit is proud to be among the select “Health Transformer” utilizing our unique technology to improve access to care in the...

A New Year for Telehealth

A New Year for Telehealth

As we embark on a new year, we at SimpleVisit thought it would be good to look back at what has happened in the telehealth industry throughout 2018 and what is on the horizon for 2019. State Legislation In 2018, 65 legislative bills and 49 regulations were passed that...

Google Hangouts is Changing!

Google Hangouts is Changing!

The Google Hangouts mobile app is scheduled to be suspended in 2020 making way for more user-specific applications made by Google. This means 2019 is the last year to use the Hangouts app on mobile devices. While the Google Hangouts browser extension will remain...

The Road to Reimbursement: Licensing

The Road to Reimbursement: Licensing

Over 70% of health systems signaled support of implementing telehealth services during a 2017 survey by the Center for Connected Medicine and The Health Management Academy. This same survey found, however, that only 10% of total health care was actively utilizing...

New Group Shakes Up Medicaid Connected Care

New Group Shakes Up Medicaid Connected Care

A new non-profit group launched officially on November 13 during the Fall Conference from the National Association of Medicaid Directors. This group has named themselves HealthTech4Medicaid (HT4M), and states that their mission is to “further improve quality and...

5 Reasons to be Thankful for Telemedicine

5 Reasons to be Thankful for Telemedicine

As we are all recovering from stuffing ourselves with turkey and pie and families are enjoying a chance to gather for this uniquely American holiday, we here at SimpleVisit would like to wish you a Happy Thanksgiving! To celebrate, we want to share with you the top 5...

[Feature Update] SimpleVisit Online Schedule

[Feature Update] SimpleVisit Online Schedule

Introducing Updates to our Online Scheduling FeatureStep 1: Select Your Time Zone The first step is to select the time zone in which you are located.  This will then launch the calendar showing the appropriate hours of operation.Step 2: Select Appointment Date and...