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.
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.
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.
Washington Post
The MedStar Health system has logged more than 500,000 video visits in this pandemic-transformed year, a milestone that showcases how telehealth has transformed medical services such as primary care, behavioral health and even cardiology.
Becker’s Hospital Review
Becker’s Hospital Review reports on how MedStar Health reduced COVID-19 patients’ length of stay in the ED by using Bluestream Health.
Health Leaders Media
Rather than deploying a solution with built-in scheduling, documentation, and revenue cycle functionality, the healthcare system expanded use of the Bluestream platform it was already using for emergency department teletriage services.
Health Leaders Media
Before the pandemic, the MedStar’s used telehealth for urgent care, and had a technology platform from Bluestream for its teletriage services. Within a matter of weeks, the platform was rolled out to 2,000 providers who conducted about 4,000 virtual visits daily within the first month.
Home Health Care News
Before COVID-19 began spreading across the U.S., MedStar Health was scheduling about 10 telehealth visits per week. During the height of COVID-19, after deploying Bluestream Health, that number increased to nearly 4,000 visits — per day.
Healthcare IT News
As MedStar Health launched its telehealth response to the COVID-19 pandemic, hundreds of the health system’s caregivers first rose to the challenge of meeting a historic surge in demand for the existing MedStar eVisit urgent care, on-demand telehealth offering.
Killeen Daily Herald
We have apps and programs that facilitate that, like Doximity, which allows us to actually see the patient on video at home. Another one is Bluestream, and some have even used Zoom.