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2023 healthcare prediction check-in: Virtual care expansion, behavioral health, and greater care coordination

With the U.S. public health emergency ending in May of this year, many are looking to the future of telehealth to gauge what solutions will hold their value in a… Read More

Bright.md Spring ‘23 Product Release: Easier pharmacy selection, fast AVS access, motion sickness treatment, and more

Spring 2023 at Bright.md was all about evaluating our user experience—for patients and providers alike. We turned to our feedback surveys and our clinical advisory board to see where we… Read More

Embedded Bright.md brings asynchronous treatment into EpicⓇ for easier care delivery

Why do health systems choose Bright.md? For starters, our clinical content is unmatched and supplements our patient interviews while offering clinical decision support for more than 140 diagnoses. Not to… Read More

Telehealth in 2023: What does primary care look like in a post-Covid landscape?

The U.S.’s Covid-19 public health emergency (PHE) officially ended on May 11th 2023, and along with the World Health Organization (WHO) ending their global health emergency, these changes beg the… Read More

Bright Spots: How does asynchronous telehealth ensure quality care for patients?

The verdict is in—in a post-pandemic landscape, consumers are craving convenient, digital healthcare options that are easily accessible. When it comes to asynchronous telehealth, we already know how it benefits… Read More

The mental health demand: How asynchronous telehealth addresses access, hesitancy and more

It’s mental health awareness month, and at Bright.md, bettering access to critical care like mental health services lays at the heart of our solution. Americans are hurting now more than… Read More

Bright.md wins 2023 MedTech Breakthrough Award for Best Overall Telehealth Solution for third year in a row

We’re thrilled to announce Bright.md has been named the Best Overall Telehealth Solution in the MedTech Breakthrough Awards for the third year in a row.  With the industry experiencing unprecedented… Read More

Bright Spots: When do patients use asynchronous telehealth?

Convenience and ease-of-use have become mainstays for today’s most successful modes of care delivery. With direct-to-consumer apps and solutions prioritizing personalization and flexibility, today’s health systems need to adapt in… Read More

The value of guiding patients to the right care: 9 data takeaways from Bright.md’s digital front door

Is the concept of a digital front door purely just for intake purposes? We don’t think so.  As healthcare continues to evolve post-Covid, along with consumer preferences, a digital front… Read More

Solving for scale: How asynchronous telehealth tackles today’s workforce challenges

What’s keeping today’s health system CEO’s up at night? According to a new survey conducted by the American College of Healthcare Executives, it’s an issue that’s now ranked number one… Read More

October 21, 2021

It’s common to have misconceptions around new technologies—especially in healthcare—and how implementation could affect physician workflow, care quality, patient retention, and more. As asynchronous technology continues to grow in popularity,…

March 19, 2021

Patient expectations have changed. While COVID-19 dramatically increased the use of virtual visits, many healthcare systems have yet to modernize the end-to-end patient experience. With the rise of direct-to-consumer care,…

December 17, 2020

In the earliest days of the coronavirus, many healthcare systems added online COVID-19 screening tools—like the one we introduced in March—to their websites. These tools helped keep “worried well” patients…

August 20, 2020

You can stop losing sleep over plummeting patient volumes. Telehealth automation eliminates barriers and opens wide your digital front door to everyone—for rapid top-line redemption. Claim your innovation superpower and automate…

August 18, 2020

The AHA estimates a total loss to hospital systems of at least $323.1 billion in 2020. That’s an urgent and sobering metric. A variety of factors is contributing to the…

March 12, 2020

In this time of public health crisis, we each have a responsibility and commitment to do whatever we can to keep our communities safe. Though the risk of contracting Coronavirus…

February 29, 2020

We’ve collected and created some of the most current and reliably sourced information to help healthcare executives and providers stay informed during the pandemic. CARES Act Support Put the CARES…

January 30, 2020

When healthcare systems innovate with AI-driven virtual care automation, they bring needed human-to-human transformation back to a broken primary and urgent care system, and win Quadruple Aim results within six…

November 13, 2019

When patients are given options, they engage more with their healthcare. That's the lesson Walmart's VP of transformation Marcus Osborne espoused at HLTH 2019 last week. "The healthcare system is…

October 3, 2019

Guest blog post by Amanda Shelley, PA-C from Physician Assistants in Virtual Medicine and Telemedicine The explosion of telehealth offerings over the past several years has been great for patients.…

August 7, 2019

Senator Ron Wyden (D, OR) visited the Bright.md offices to discuss healthcare and how telehealth platforms like SmartExam can help the chronically ill. Senator Wyden architected the Chronic Care Act…

July 10, 2019

When we think about EHRs and their link to physician burnout, we picture tired clinicians punching keys late at night. But a new study has found a connection between burnout…

June 26, 2019

The water cooler (i.e. Slack) conversations in the Bright.md office recently include discussions of what patients really complain about regarding their healthcare; how the town of Paradise, California, is rethinking…

June 5, 2019

Slack was buzzing this week with discussions about where patients are seeking primary and urgent care as PCP shortages grow, how telehealth has the potential to aid women seeking abortions…

May 14, 2019

When a patient isn’t feeling well, they want to get care as quickly as possible. But with primary care physician shortages, they may have to wait weeks—or even months—to see…

May 2, 2019

As consumerism takes hold in healthcare, patient expectations for fast, convenient, and easy tools to take care of themselves are driving huge shifts in the industry. They are also creating…

November 6, 2018

If you’ve read parts one and two of this series, you should have a good grasp of (and maybe a little trepidation about) the power of women when it comes…

November 1, 2018

In part one of this series, we explored how often women make the healthcare decisions for their own health and that of their families. In this part, we’ll dig into why women’s…

October 29, 2018

As Jane Austen once noted, it is a truth universally acknowledged that a woman in possession of a body will at some point be in want of healthcare. However, what…