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Now, More Than Ever, Rural Communities Need Virtual Care

The CDC reports that rural Americans are more likely to die of five leading causes than urban Americans are. That’s 57 million Americans who are at greater risk of dying from heart disease, cancer, chronic respiratory disease, stroke, and unintentional injury such as overdoses and motor vehicle accidents. Rural Americans…

Impresiv Health and Bluestream Health Announce Strategic Partnership to Provide Telehealth Services

ORLANDO, January 15, 2021 – Impresiv Health and Bluestream Health are pleased to announce they have entered into a strategic partnership, combining Impresiv Health’s industry-leading consulting services for payer organizations with Bluestream’s HIPAA-Compliant telehealth platform offering best-in-market video connectivity along with clinical workflows, patient and expert queue management, and real-time reporting. …

The Affordable Care Act Should be the Accountable Care Act

The Journal of mHealth

It’s time to make even better use of today’s tech to prevent disease as much as possible, and to hasten patients’ full recoveries. Anything less is unacceptable.

Top 5 Telehealth Trends for 2021

Telehealth became a lifeline to hospitals and clinics in 2020. Physicians needed new ways to provide the same quality of care for patients while minimizing the chance of spreading COVID-19. And patients who had become used to remote everything expected the same kind of remote access to healthcare. Some of…

Telehealth for Seniors: Benefits & Best Practices

It’s a myth that seniors aren’t interested in technology or that they don’t want to find new ways to stay connected. Seniors video chat with grandkids, they use smart appliances in their homes, and they wear smart, wearable devices. In fact, many new smart devices have been directly marketed toward…

How to Choose the Best Telehealth Solution: Comparing and Contrasting Popular Video Conferencing Apps for Telehealth

Because telehealth and virtual care are so different from video conference calls, it’s important to know what kind of expectations you should have for a robust telehealth platform. (Not sure if your clinic is ready to move to a telehealth platform? Here are the top ten signs your clinic has outgrown your virtual care solution.)

MedStar Health surpasses 500,000 telehealth sessions delivered during COVID-19 in October 2020

MedStar Health

In late October, MedStar Health surpassed a transformational care milestone of delivering more than 500,000 telehealth sessions during the COVID-19 pandemic, made possible by both a decade of foundational telehealth work and rapid crisis response and scaling starting in March 2020.

Bluestream Adds One-Touch Connectivity to LanguageLine for Telehealth

MONTEREY, CA – November 16, 2020 – LanguageLine Solutions, the global leader in on-demand language access, has announced an integration with Bluestream Health, a leading provider for telehealth to healthcare providers and health systems. Serving more than 50,000 providers, Bluestream is delivering over 100,000 on-demand virtual care visits a month with average wait times of just 12…

Medical consultation seeing ‘astronomical’ growth in popularity during pandemic

WTOP News

Bluestream Health helped MedStar Health scale to more than 500,000 telehealth interactions during the COVID pandemic. WTOP.com covered this story on November 11th, 2020, including an interview with Dr. Ethan Booker of MedStar Health.

Telehealth is a Strategy No Matter Who Wins the 2020 Election

The Journal of mHealth

As we try and navigate the last few hours (and possibly weeks) before the results of the 2020 presidential election are in, businesses across the country are trying to figure out how they might need to modify internal operations, if at all, depending on who gets elected to the White House – especially in the healthcare industry.

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