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In the past year alone, three of the nation’s top web-based healthcare companies — Teladoc, MDLive, and American Well — processed over 400,000 medical interactions online, more than doubling the amount processed in 2011. In the past year, numerous telehealth trials, such as in Howard County, MD elementary schools, have begun testing the method’s efficiency, as well as the ability of existing frameworks to integrate it. Harry Wang, Director of Health & Mobile Product Research for ...read more

Parks Associates asked 2,000 consumers, ages 18 and older about their buying habits in the consumer tech space. The study, which was conducted in late 2011, asked men and women which products they intend to buy before January 1, 2012. Retailer HSN announced the findings on Monday at the 2012 Consumer Electronics Show.

Women expressed more interest in tablets (18%), laptops (20%) and smartphones (20%). Only 15% of men planned to buy a tablet, while 14% sought a laptop and 17% ...read more