Healthcare systems are positioned better than ever before to implement virtual care solutions that satisfy patient needs and present opportunities for revenue growth. Clinicians who work with easy-to-use, integrated workflows schedule visits with more patients each day, leading to increased productivity. Conversely, slow implementation of virtual care systems ends up…
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Why 2021 Is the Year to Make the Switch to Virtual Care
Telehealth has been available to the general public for decades in one form or another. Whether it’s a parent calling in the middle of the night about a sick child or a student seeking mental health resources, 24-hour hotlines have long been resourced as the first point of contact. For…
12 Telehealth Use Cases
We’ve entered an age in which we can get anything online — including healthcare. Telehealth now makes it possible to provide and receive care from just about anywhere in the world, offering benefits such as increased safety, accessibility, convenience, and cost savings.
The 5 Worst Telehealth Mistakes and How to Fix Them
Offering telehealth and virtual care to your patients is essential. It improves access to care for more people, it allows your providers to work at the top of their license, it can improve health outcomes for patients with chronic diseases, and it can make providing care more cost effective.
How QLER and Bluestream are Writing the Future of Telepsych
The number of people seeking care for behavioral and mental health in the U.S. has been steadily increasing over the past decade, but the number of psychiatrists is dwindling. More than half of the counties in the U.S. don’t have a psychiatrist. Seventy percent of behavioral health patients who visited…
Good Virtual Care Experiences Look Like This
Health systems, hospitals, and clinics who provide positive virtual care experiences for their patients are poised to thrive in this new landscape of telemedical care. Providing high quality virtual care that is accessible to patients—regardless of their location, age, and technical proficiency—is not only possible, it’s expected. Patients expect their…
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…
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.)