BlueJeans by Verizon today announced that customers including the
University of Louisville, Amicus Therapeutics, Guy's and St Thomas'
NHS Foundation Trust and Central London Community Healthcare NHS
Trust are deploying BlueJeans to drive healthcare transformation.
Using BlueJeans video conferencing for telehealth services,
patient-to-family communication, internal collaboration, education
and patient advisory boards, hospitals, healthcare and life
sciences organizations are able to help improve patient outcomes
through providing care remotely in a manner that helps support
adherence to the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability
Act (HIPAA) or similar patient privacy requirements.
According to Frost & Sullivan, the “demand for
telehealth will soar by 64.3% in the US in 2020 as the COVID-19
pandemic disrupts the practice of medicine and the delivery of
healthcare.” In an effort to keep practitioners and patients safe
during this global public health crisis without sacrificing quality
of care, healthcare organizations are having to rethink traditional
service models and critically assess modern technology to improve
patient health remotely—with the need for secure, enterprise-grade
telemedicine solutions becoming a priority. The BlueJeans platform
can transform the way hospitals and health systems operate,
innovate, and deliver care to patients as we look toward the future
of healthcare.
Opened as the Louisville Medical Institute in 1837,
the University of Louisville School of Medicine is one of the
oldest medical schools in North America and the 9th oldest in the
United States. According to Tim Bickel, Certified TeleHealth
Program Manager and Certified Medical Manager of the University of
Louisville, “The transition to telehealth at the start of the
COVID-19 pandemic was not as difficult for us as it could have been
thanks to our existing relationship with BlueJeans. While some of
our clinics were up and running performing telehealth before the
pandemic even hit, BlueJeans allowed us to make remote
consultations widespread to better protect the safety of our
patients, providers and staff. Furthermore, we’ve been able to
continue live streaming surgical procedures straight from the
operating room to our medical students who are now learning
virtually at home instead of in the classroom.”
Epic Integration for Secure
Telehealth
In direct response to customer demand, BlueJeans
worked with Epic APIs to engineer a BlueJeans integration with
Epic. Now in the Epic App Orchard, the BlueJeans integration with
Epic seamlessly connects healthcare providers and patients into a
secure video session, launched directly from MyChart or MyChart
Mobile. The use of high-definition video and Dolby Voice audio
improves the clarity of visual and spoken communications. In
addition, with enhanced privacy measures such as meeting passwords,
locked meetings, and enterprise-grade encryption, BlueJeans helps
provide peace of mind for patients and providers. Initiated through
Epic's Context-Aware Link (CAL) workflows, where available, this
engineered method supports a variety of endpoint experiences to
allow healthcare providers and patients to readily meet in a unique
and secure telehealth visit over the internet—from virtually any
device, time and location.
Amicus Therapeutics is a global, patient-centric
biotechnology company focused on discovering, developing and
delivering novel high-quality medicines for people living with rare
metabolic diseases. By conducting virtual patient advisory boards
over BlueJeans, they’ve been able to pursue their cutting-edge
medicines without putting patients through the risks of travel.
From an IT standpoint, “BlueJeans’ ability to interoperate with
different platforms and devices, either in conference rooms,
computers or mobile devices—such as being able to connect Microsoft
Teams with Poly conference room systems using the BlueJeans
Gateway—will be an essential aspect to potential hybrid work models
as we think through our strategy for safely returning people to the
office,” said Gary LaSasso, Director, Collaboration Experiences
& Technologies at Amicus Therapeutics.
Providing a full range of hospital and specialist
services for patients including cancer, cardiovascular, women's and
children's services, kidney care and orthopedics, Guy's and St
Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust uses BlueJeans to facilitate
Multidisciplinary Team (MDTs) Meetings with the goal of providing
the best treatment option for patients. According to Justin Rock,
Senior Digital Media Services Technician at Guy's and St Thomas'
NHS Foundation Trust, “With BlueJeans we’re able to essentially
‘crowdsource’ the best minds in medicine by meeting with
specialists from different clinical disciplines to determine
patient treatments without having to physically get together.
Furthermore, by reducing patient travel time, freeing up of
hospital resources, and helping to increase the overall safety of
our patients, BlueJeans is considered a win by all.”
HIPAA Ready Video
Conferencing
With healthcare entities seeking to maintain the
privacy and security of patients’ protected health information,
BlueJeans has implemented a HIPAA program and is positioned to sign
HIPAA business associate agreements with its customers that address
regulatory requirements regarding privacy and security.
Through its convenient, secure high-quality
experience, the BlueJeans video conferencing platform enables
researchers, clinicians, and hospital staff to:
- Virtualize treatment by providing the mechanism for meetings to
facilitate medical advice to remote patients with secure, one-touch
video visits.
- Enhance convenience through delivering consultations to
patients from any smart device or browser.
- Educate residents and medical students via video grand rounds,
remote observation of operating room procedures and other distance
learning programs in multiple locations.
- Alleviate IT burden by giving helpdesk staff a single resource
for understanding online meeting utilization, solving problems and
making informed decisions.
"Video conferencing has become essential for
improving patient care and experiences during the pandemic and
beyond," said Sampath Sowmyanarayan, President, Global Enterprise,
Verizon Business. "As we look to the future of healthcare and the
impact that 5G will have on a wide range of telemedicine
initiatives, BlueJeans will be a transformative part of how
healthcare providers seamlessly connect with and treat patients
from afar.”
Additional hospitals and health systems that use
BlueJeans for Healthcare include the Children’s Hospital of
Philadelphia, Penn Medicine and Central London Community Healthcare
NHS Trust.
Resources
- To stay up to date on the latest BlueJeans healthcare features,
visit: https://www.bluejeans.com/use-cases/healthcare
- BlueJeans now supports authenticated encryption for real-time
media using AES-256 GCM on desktop apps for macOS and Windows and
mobile clients on Android and iOS. BlueJeans on web browsers will
support AES-256 GCM in Fall 2020. To learn more about how BlueJeans
manages Security and Privacy, visit the BlueJeans Trust
Center.
- For additional updates, follow @BlueJeansNet on Twitter
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