Face-to-face, no matter the place — Telehealth is bringing patients and providers closer than ever before. With quality-of-life improvements for both, it has the potential to revolutionize the way you provide care, while keeping you fully compliant. This post looks at a few common telehealth use cases. Common WebRTC Use Cases: Follow Up Visits Readmission rates to hospitals are a leading cause of unnecessary health care spending and can be easily reduced by webRTC use. Even multiple trips

Henry Ford was once quoted as saying, "The two most important things in any company do not appear in its balance sheet: its reputation and its people".  You know what we do at webRTC.ventures — we bring people together by closing geographical gaps using real time communication. However, you may not know WHO we are...that is until now. Each week, we are going to introduce you to a member of our team.  This week, we want you

Real Time Weekly #234: June 18, 2018 Welcome to Real Time Weekly! In this week's issue we've got cool blog posts about Async/Await, Agora.io, PubNub, React Native, Machine Learning, and a great video tutorial about how to install Jitsi Meet by your own. Your feedback is always welcome! So you can write me to share content, propose new topics, or just to say hello! Thanks for Reading! @germangol Editor NOTE: Real Time Weekly subscribers are only shared with RTWeekly's parent company,

Since the start of the Internet, the browser has been with us as our sail mate in the turbulent waters of the web. First Netscape to the friendly fellows of Chrome, Opera, and Firefox to the not so neighborly Safari and Internet Explorer, the browser in its several forms is the key to our internet adventure. To talk about the importance of the browser let me introduce the three APIs that make this possible: GetUserMedia

Before WebRTC, (Real Time Communication over the Web) we should remember that previously, in order to communicate with other people over the internet using video and audio (a.k.a. a "Video Call"), the first thing you needed to do was install additional software. So, imagine the situation: You go to Google and type something like 'How do I install software X'. In the perfect world, you would get official download links from a vendor's website, however

Real Time Weekly #233: June 11, 2018 Welcome to Real Time Weekly! In this week's issue we've got several new tutorials and articles about Real-time and WebRTC development. My favorite of this week is the webinar from TokBox about building a WebRTC app with iOS in Swift, well done! Your feedback is always welcome! So you can write me to share content, propose new topics, or just to say hello! Thanks for Reading! @germangol Editor NOTE: Real Time Weekly subscribers are

Are you looking for a custom real time video and audio licensed expert consultation platform to further support and engage customers? Are you looking for an already-built platform that can be easily customized and quickly released to market? If so, you are in luck! WebRTC Ventures recently announced a new product offering: an expert consultation platform which you can license under your logo and brand. Do you have customers that you meet with in person? Well,

Healthcare Data Breaches Affect Providers of All Sizes. Within the last few years, there were major data breaches of large healthcare providers like Anthem, Premera Blue Cross, and Excellus BlueCross Blueshield. But it's not only the major providers hackers may target. Smaller medical practices can be a target too, and as more of them adopt telehealth applications, it's important they do not become easy targets for sophisticated hackers. It is therefore crucial to know what you must

Hackers abound on the internet, and they don’t just want your credit card numbers.  Hackers profit directly from stealing bank or credit card information. However, with healthcare or other personal data, they profit by selling that data on the “dark web” to other hackers who may use that personal information as part of identity theft operations. Healthcare data breaches are a major concern for privacy and financial reasons, to both the patient and to the

Real Time Weekly #232: June 4, 2018 Welcome to Real Time Weekly! Another week full of tutorials and articles about Real-time and WebRTC development. Your feedback is always welcome! So you can write me to share content, propose new topics, or just to say hello! Thanks for Reading! @germangol Editor NOTE: Real Time Weekly subscribers are only shared with RTWeekly's parent company, WebRTC.ventures Follow us at @RealTimeWeekly for the most "real-time" updates! Building a WebRTC Video Chat Application with SimpleWebRTC Michael Wanyoike, sitepoint.com

When Train-With's founder, Rachel Aram, decided to create a platform which provides one the ability to take a group fitness class or train with a favorite trainer regardless of time and location, she turned to the WebRTC.ventures team to get professional help in developing and launching her mobile live video fitness training application. Here's an example of how Train-With can be used — you are traveling, or you move to another state but still want

  Real Time Weekly #231: May 28, 2018 Welcome to Real Time Weekly! This week we've got a number of interesting blog posts about Realtime development and WebRTC. There's an interesting announcement from Twilio about their new Programmable Video Recording Compositions API. Your feedback is always welcome! So you can write me to share content, propose new topics, or just to say hello! Thanks for Reading! @germangol Editor Follow us at @RealTimeWeekly for the most "real-time" updates! Beyond REST: Using WebSockets for

You may realize that your healthcare business must consider telehealth in order to not only meet patients' growing technological expectations, but also to not get displaced or beat out by your competition. You know that video is a very important component of telehealth. You may have heard of the term "webRTC video" mentioned when discussing telehealth. What is it? Why should you consider webRTC video for telehealth? WebRTC is a standard for connecting two or more

  Welcome to Real Time Weekly! Hello everyone! Here you have a set of new tutorials about WebRTC and realtime development from this last week. Your feedback is always welcome! So you can write me to share content, propose new topics, or just to say hello! Happy Reading! @germangol Editor Follow us at @RealTimeWeekly for the most "real-time" updates! This week's Real Time News   WebRTC Issues and How to Debug Them Codeship May 09 Very interesting article where you will

What is the value of WebRTC to your business?  The WebRTC standard was first drafted in 2012, and so is now approaching six years old.  As someone who has been involved in the WebRTC integration space for four years now, it feels both old and new to me. WebRTC still feels new because it's just in the last year that Apple's Safari browsers have begun to support it, who became the last of the major

There has been much talk about telehealth lately but what is it exactly? According to Mosby's Medical Dictionary, telehealth is defined as: The use of telecommunication technologies to provide health care services and access to medical and surgical information for training and educating health care professionals and consumers, to increase awareness and educate the public about health-related issues, and to facilitate medical research across distances. What are the promises of telehealth and why are many

  Welcome to Real Time Weekly! Hello everyone! A new week full of new blog posts and tutorials about WebRTC and real-time development. Your feedback is always welcome! So you can write me to share content, propose new topics, or just to say hello! Happy Reading! @germangol Editor Follow us at @RealTimeWeekly for the most "real-time" updates! This week's Real Time News   WebRTC + TensorFlow Lite + Android Silver Lining May 6 Very nice tutorial of how to combine TensorFlow

  Welcome to Real Time Weekly! In this week's issue we have several tutorials for all tastes. My favorite of the week is the talk about Elixir and Phoenix. If you have technical blog posts, event announcements, or any suggestion please contact me at german@webrtc.ventures. Happy Reading! @germangol Editor Follow us at @RealTimeWeekly for the most "real-time" updates! This week's Real Time News React Native Firebase Example appdividend.com Apr 24 A simple example code to learn how to connect Firebase

  Welcome to Real Time Weekly!  This week we have more tutorials of WebRTC and Real-time development. Attention to the bug in Chrome v66 which is breaking many WebRTC apps that use AudioContext and MediaStream to display mic volume! Philipp Hacke explains more about this in his blog post. If you have technical blog posts, event announcements, or any suggestion please contact me at german@webrtc.ventures. Happy Reading! @germangol Editor Follow us at @RealTimeWeekly for the most "real-time" updates!

Webphones are web-based applications that allow you to make phone calls directly in your Internet browser like Firefox, Chrome, Safari and many more. Webphones can make and receive calls from traditional phones (PSTN, Public Switch Telephone Network). The Real-Time Communications (RTC) capabilities also allows audio, video, messaging and file transfers in any heterogeneous device from smartphones to PC using the most modern Internet Browsers. There are several alternatives to communicate from webRTC to traditional phones