swyMed Now Available in Apple App Store
Apple fans, rejoice! The swyMed app has returned to the Apple App Store, and it’s better than ever before!
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Telemedicine Webinar Featuring Partners Life Image and swyMed to Explore Patient Care, Operations, and Networks
swyMed cordially invites you to join us in an upcoming webinar hosted by our partner, Life Image.
“Improve Care and Operations with Network Access”
As special guests, we will explore how imaging and telehealth “silos” in the telemedicine market can be integrated for more efficient, easier provider workflow, as well as improving patient care. We’ll discuss how audio/visual data can be optimized for use in remote patient monitoring (RPM), low-bandwidth network situations, and business intelligence.
Don’t miss us on Thursday, September 17 at 1:00 p.m. ET!
swyMed Telemedicine Solutions Now Include FirstNet®
LEXINGTON, Massachusetts, July 8, 2020 – swyMed, a provider of industry leading telemedicine and connectivity solutions, announced today the general availability of its telemedicine software suite and DOT backpack as an embedded solution with FirstNet. As part of this relationship, swyMed’s mobile telemedicine and connectivity solutions can operate on FirstNet, the only nationwide wireless, high-speed […]
Avoid These Common HIPAA Violations
More than twenty years since its inception, the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) has made significant strides in keeping patients’ healthcare information private. However, even now, HIPAA violations still occur on a regular basis—often as a result of unintentional actions, leading to fines that can range from $100 to $1.5 million. In addition, providers may be at risk for sanctions or even loss of license. Here, in no particular order, are the 10 most common reasons for HIPAA violation citations; it’s worth reviewing these with your staff periodically to remind them to be careful with discussions, files, and devices. Read more
swyMed and Life Image Team Up to Expand Telestroke Offering
Today, swyMed and Life Image, the world’s largest global network for sharing clinical and imaging data that is powered by industry leading interoperability standards, announced a strategic partnership to enhance telestroke capabilities. This collaboration will integrate relevant clinical and imaging data into the telemedicine encounter, thus improving physicians’ ability to collaborate and coordinate patient care. In addition, since Life Image already supports more than 140 stroke centers across the U.S., the partnership will strengthen swyMed’s ability to connect with these neurologists and primary stroke centers. Read more
swyMed CMO Noah Rosen among Top 1% of Doctors
Each year, Boston Magazine teams up with Castle Connolly Medical Ltd. to recognize the top one percent of physicians in each specialty in the Boston region, as identified by other doctors across the nation. Nominees are chosen not only for their skill as a physician, but also in the areas of academic medicine, research, and interpersonal skills.
We are proud to announce that once again, swyMed CMO Noah Rosen has made Boston Magazine’s Top Doctors 2019 list for Vascular Surgery. Congratulations, Noah!
Noah Rosen, swyMed CMO
swyMed Joins AT&T’s FirstNet Dealer Program
Industry Experts in Public Safety Can Now Market, Promote and Co-Sell FirstNet Services
LEXINGTON, Massachusetts, Oct. 5, 2018 – swyMed, a provider of industry leading telemedicine and connectivity solutions, through its relationship with Two Way Direct, is joining AT&T’s FirstNet Dealer Program. As part of its relationship with Two Way Direct, swyMed can now sell FirstNet services to eligible current and future public safety customers.
In support of AT&T’s efforts to deliver FirstNet services to first responders under its contract with the First Responder Network Authority (FirstNet Authority), AT&T has engaged a group of dealers and solution providers with deep knowledge of public safety. This FirstNet Dealer Program will help get FirstNet’s game-changing technology into the hands of first responders throughout the U.S.
“We are very pleased to join the Two Way Direct and FirstNet family. We believe in the ability of FirstNet services to change the communications landscape for first responders and its promise of dramatic positive change for all citizens during and after a devastating emergency,” stated Stefano Migliorisi, CEO for swyMed.
FirstNet is the nationwide public safety communications platform dedicated to America’s first responders. Being built with AT&T, in public-private partnership with the FirstNet Authority, FirstNet is bringing public safety a much-needed technology upgrade to help them connect to the critical information they need. Every day. And in every emergency.
“Enabling swyMed, through its relationship with Two Way Direct, to equip first responders with FirstNet service is a great way to meet public safety where they are,” said Stacy Schwartz, vice president, AT&T Public Safety & FirstNet. “The FirstNet Dealer Program makes it easy for public safety agencies to work with the solution providers they know and trust – like swyMed – to sign up for FirstNet service.”
AT&T closely regulates which indirect sellers are approved to promote, market and co-sell FirstNet. swyMed was selected for its focus on industry leading telemedicine and connectivity solutions for healthcare, EMS, and Emergency Services Clients.
To learn more about swyMed, go to http://swymed.com. To learn more about FirstNet, go to FirstNet.com.
*AT&T products and services are provided or offered by subsidiaries and affiliates of AT&T Inc. under the AT&T brand and not by AT&T Inc.
swyMed Wins Smart Solutions Award
Just this week, at the World of Health Care 2018 (WoHC), conference delegates voted swyMed as the winner of the Smart Solutions Award due to our DOT Telemedicine Backpack’s innovations in tackling challenges to modernize, optimize, and increase the quality, affordability, and accessibility of healthcare. Read more
swyMed Makes Becker’s List of Industry Leaders
Becker’s Hospital Review has published a list of the top 250 telehealth companies to know in 2018—and we’re pleased and honored to be on that list. Becker’s regularly scouts the industry and highlights the companies leading the way, at times featuring up-and-comers who they believe will really shake things up; Read more
VA Eliminates Licensure Barrier to Interstate Telemedicine
As part of the new “Anywhere to Anywhere VA Health Care Initiative,” Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) providers will soon be able to provide telehealth services across state lines regardless of the state’s licensing rules. The goal is to create a national telemedicine network that can reach veterans in their homes or at locations outside VA hospitals. Effective June 11, the change is expected to increase access to care by making more clinicians available for appointments for patients in rural, remote, or medically underserved areas. Read more
