Given what we have all just gone through, (and are continuing to go through) with the global pandemic, does the question about whether we should be using or supporting telehealth services really need answering? To think in terms of having in-person only or office visits right now is so “last year” (or the year before).
In The News
Bluestream Health Selected by Leon Medical Centers to Provide Telehealth Services
Florida-based Leon Medical Centers has begun using a fully integrated Telehealth Platform from Bluestream Health to provide services to Medicare patients.
Healthcare de Jure: Matthew Davidge & Brian Yarnell from Bluestream Health
Healthcare De Jure
Matthew Davidge, CEO and Co-Founder and Brian Yarnell, President and Co-Founder of Bluestream Health met with host Matt Fisher on Podcast Healthcare De Jure to discuss integration of telehealth and technology into the workflow of healthcare to make for seamless experience.
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.
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.
Short Takes 20 Nov: Bluestream Health integrates LanguageLine translation
Telecare Aware
LanguageLine, which is a long-time provider of language translation services live to in-patient and acute care settings, announced an integration with Bluestream Health’s virtual visits.
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.
MedStar Health reaches 500,000 telehealth visits during pandemic
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.
MedStar Health reduces certain ED visit lengths by nearly 63% via telehealth
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.