CareSpan Virtual Clinic is integrating its service with iHealth‘s Pro digital health devices to create what it says is the first telemedicine solution that meets the standards of an in-person exam with the convenience of cloud-based care delivery.

Using iHealth’s Open API, CareSpan can relay patient data from iHealth products to its patient medical record system. During an online CareSpan exam, the physician or nurse communicating with a remote patient can see the patient health data such as blood pressure, blood oxygenation, blood sugar, body weight and even cardiac rhythms in the CareSpan provider interface, along with many other diagnostic data elements and images.

“iHealth is a pioneer in the field of FDA and CE cleared devices designed for home and clinical use that transform healthcare by capturing essential physiological data regardless of patient location,” Mark Winter, CEO of CareSpan, said in a statement. “CareSpan, in partnership with iHealth, moves far beyond a simple video chat between a provider and patient to include the entire clinical work process needed to deliver quality healthcare. This includes iHealth data, medical images, breathing and heart sounds, even electrocardiograph charting. Our combined capabilities set the current gold standard for outpatient care delivered online.”

Now it’s up to CareSpan to score a client which will use this new offering, and provide its patients with an improved telehealth experience. We’ll see how that goes…