BlueStar TeleHealth and Age-Tech Leader OdessaConnect Join Forces to Provide Remote Patient Monitoring Through The TV
BlueStar Telehealth and OdessaConnect today announce a partnership to launch a television-based Remote Patient Monitoring platform. ROCKVILLE, MARYLAND, UNITED STATES, July 28, 2022 — BlueStar Telehealth, a Rockville-based provider of telehealth services, and OdessaConnect, a Louisville-based company who specializes in senior-friendly technology, today announce a partnership to launch a television-based Remote Patient Monitoring platform. Telehealth usage skyrocketed during the pandemic. […]
Good Samaritan Selects BlueStar to Deliver Remote Telehealth
Good Samaritan to provide remote patient monitoring services through a partnership with BlueStar TeleHealth WASHINGTON, DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA, UNITED STATES, June 16, 2022 — BlueStar TeleHealth is partnering with Good Samaritan, a nationally recognized network of physicians, services, and health care resources based in southwestern Indiana, to provide quality health care to a 10-county service area […]
BlueStar TeleHealth Receives Vizient Contract for Remote Patient Monitoring
A service-disabled-veteran-owned business, BlueStar is a participant in the Vizient Supplier Diversity Program ROCKVILLE, MARYLAND, UNITED STATES, March 14, 2022 — BlueStar Telehealth, a leader in remote patient monitoring (RPM) services, announced today that it has been awarded a contract for telehealth delivery services with Vizient, Inc., the largest member-driven healthcare performance improvement company in the U.S. The contract […]
Care Management Tools Can Mitigate Clinician Burnout
Although technology alone can’t solve clinician burnout, it can provide the means for organizations to provide better care while increasing efficiency and alleviating stress. Source: Oncology Nursing News Findings from an American Medical Association (AMA) national survey of nearly 21,000 health care professionals show that nearly half (49%) reported at least 1 symptom of burnout, […]
Islands Community Medical partners with BlueStar to deliver Remote Patient Monitoring
Islands Community to provide remote patient monitoring services through a partnership with BlueStar TeleHealth ROCKVILLE, MD, US, January 12, 2022Covid-19 has led to remote patient monitoring (RPM) becoming far more popular for patients, providers, andnurses. Islands Community wanted to better serve their patients by offeringRPM and has chosen to outsource some of that work to […]
Physician Burnout is Real
The health care environment—with its packed work days, demanding pace, time pressures, and emotional intensity—can put physicians and other clinicians at high risk for burnout.
New UMCC study highlights success of remote patient monitoring
Published by the University of Mississippi Medical Center By: Ruth Cummins, ricummins@umc.edu When Will Townes’ blood pressure needed managing, he started on a prescription drug but wasn’t getting the results he wanted to be his healthiest self. “It was not regulating my blood pressure at all, and it was making it worse,” said Townes, the married […]
Improving The Continuum Of Patient Care Through Technology
In past years, governments and health systems have explored ways to address health population management and chronic disease challenges. I’ve seen an increase in efforts to come up with new and efficient outpatient hospital models by leveraging digital channels and partnerships, including those highlighted by Becker’s Hospital Review. Specifically, there has been much discussion around restructuring healthcare teams […]
Is remote patient monitoring right for your practice?
Interest in remote patient monitoring (RPM) — using digital technologies to track and capture patients’ medical/health data and electronically transmitting it to their health care providers — has been growing for years. But it accelerated in 2020 with the steep decline in in-person patient visits brought on by COVID-19, which forced health care providers to […]
Has COVID-19 turned telehealth care from “nice to have” to a “baseline expectation”?
Are there statistics that show COVID-19’s impact on pivoting telehealth care from “nice to have” to a “baseline expectation”? Though not all Americans have needed to see a healthcare provider during these months of the pandemic, we know that about 60 to 70% of American adults have seen a provider since its start. Of those, about 15% […]
Blood Pressure Control Worsened During COVID Pandemic
Blood pressure control declined in both men and women with the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic in the United States in 2020, especially among women and older adults, according to a new analysis. “We know that even small rises in blood pressure increase one’s risk of stroke and other adverse cardiovascular disease events,” lead author Luke J. […]
BlueStar TeleHealth Earns Certified Veteran’s Business Enterprise™ Designation from NaVOBA
BlueStar TeleHealth is proud to announce that it has earned the designation as a Certified Veteran’s Business Enterprise™ (VBE) from NaVOBA WASHINGTON, DC, UNITED STATES, November 29, 2021 — BlueStar TeleHealth is proud to announce that it has earned the exclusive designation as a Certified Veteran’s Business Enterprise™ (VBE) from the National Veteran Owned Business Association. To be […]
