Wal-Mart will pilot telemedicine through retail clinics in Houston, and will be trademarked as Walk-In Telemedicine Health Care.
They will be partnering with My Healthy Access and NuPhysicia, the private company that comes out of the long-successful telemedicine program at the University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston. Telemedicine was been pioneered at U-T in Galveston over the past 10 years, and the program has global reach.
Instead of employing nurse practitioners, the medical model for this program will use paramedics working under the supervision of physicians via various scopes technologies -- electronic stethoscopes and beyond. NuPhysicia describes this process as, "interactive physician visits."
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