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this doesn't look or sound like your typical pediatrician visit it's good he's stopped being cranky um he's taking the antibiotics really well from her Northern California home Colleen Beason has logged on to VC a free telehealth a panerai padded to video chat with a doctor in Florida about her son Darian's ear infection it's nice to be able to put the TV on for the toddler and I could talk to the doctor with no interruptions yeah 3 VC was designed for families like the B sins people who live in remote areas here in the US or even worldwide who have non emergency medical concerns last year in the u.s. there were 900 million doctor visits in the US and people asked him about fifty percent of that 900 million could be down from oly VC founder and CEO Milton Chen says while other services like Skype and Google video are good for consumer uses VC is the first HIPAA compliant fda-registered telehealth app that is free to patients patients pay the medical provider who then in turn pay vca usage fee saving a long trip to San Francisco saving money on parking in San Francisco there's a lot of benefits and I think patients are really excited by the opportunity Kate Lauren jur a licensed genetic counselor University of California San Francisco Medical Center particularly likes VC for the ability to simultaneously view documents during a video chat we can really easily send them the family tree that we're looking at and we can actually use electronic pen to circle areas of the pedigree that we're focusing in on in less than two years on the market tens of thousands of patients and thousands of doctors have used VC more coming online daily proving telemedicine visits are going to become commonplace in San Francisco I'm Kara Tsuboi cnet.com for CBS News you