Coviu's Telehealth Blog

The tyranny of distance is a major barrier for remote Australians seeking medical assistance for chronic disease. SYDNEY/TAMWORTH, AUSTRALIA — 10 January 2017. Almost 50...

MELBOURNE, AUSTRALIA — 24 August 2016. HealthKit (www.healthkit.com), the leading Australian digital health platform for practitioners and patients today announces a technology partnership with Coviu (www.coviu.com), a CSIRO Data61 startup, to integrate its browser-based telehealth platform, giving video consultation capability to HealthKit’s 15,000 Australian health practitioners.

Coviu has had iOS, Android and Desktop applications for several months now. We’ve been building all of these from the same codebase, making it possible for us to support this many platforms with a really small number of developers.

As Coviu’s core goal is to enable the delivery of human services over a distance, our users have quite naturally asked for ways of charging their customers.

In this article we will focus on the desktop or laptop use of Coviu. You can also use Coviu on a tablet or a phone from within a Web browser or app (on iOS you require an app). But that’s a story for another day.

Today, Silvia gave a talk at the WebRTC Summit in Santa Clara about why WebRTC is a fundamentally different and new paradigm to the Web. It introduces the ability of distributed computing into Web browser applications.