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Beam Hospitalist Teams Support Rural Communities During the COVID-19 Pandemic
At Stoughton Hospital in rural Wisconsin, Beam Healthcare’s Hospitalist team stepped up to meet the first wave of the COVID-19 Pandemic.
PCOS: A More Convenient Model of Care
Almost 5 million women in the United States are dealing with polycystic ovarian syndrome, a hormonal condition also known as PCOS. According to the CDC, …
Improving Access to Endocrinologists for Diabetes Care Through Telemedicine
Previous Beam blog posts described the ways in which telemedicine lends itself to the management of complicated Diabetic Foot Infection (DFI) and COVID-19 care preparations. …
How Telemedicine Antibiotic Stewardship Helps Healthcare Providers
Did you know that some pathogens are now so resilient that even powerful antibiotics cannot overcome them? Antibiotic resistance is developing at an alarmingly fast …
Why Telemedicine? Patients Save
In this series we discuss the advantages to telemedicine across clinical settings and medical specialties. These are evidence-based mini-reviews of how and why telemedicine offers …
Leveraging Telemedicine for Procedures: Pulmonary Function Tests
In this series, we discuss how health systems can leverage telemedicine to increase procedural utilization locally. Focusing on individual procedures, these are evidence-based mini-reviews of …
Why Telemedicine? Economic Health
In our “Why Telemedicine?” series we are examining various benefits to telemedicine programs. These posts aim to provide evidence-based mini-reviews across healthcare and of relevance …
Mistrust in Vaccination and the COVID-19 Vaccine
The back-to-school checklist just got bigger. Counties across America are requiring staff and children of certain ages to be vaccinated for COVID-19, and unvaccinated employees …
The Difference Between Telehealth vs. Telemedicine
Telehealth and telemedicine have become global mainstays in recent years. The benefits for many organizations are too numerous and the savings too large to ignore. …
Telemedicine FAQs
We believe telemedicine is the answer to the Iron Triangle of healthcare—improving cost, quality, and access. As effective and efficient as telemedicine is, however, it’s …
Starting A Telemedicine Career
2019 was a banner year for me. I traveled extensively, celebrated the start of my fourth decade, moved to a new home, got my motorcycle …
Infectious Disease & Infection Prevention Services
In a series of posts, we’ll be taking a deep-dive look at each of Beam’s telemedicine service offerings — Infectious Disease and Prevention, Cardiology Consults …
Cardiology Consult & Procedures
Part three of our five-part Telemedicine Services series on the blog. Read part one, Infectious Disease & Prevention, here, and part two, Clinical Pharmacist Services, here.
Hospitalist Service
The fourth installment of our Telemedicine Services series on the blog. Read part one, Infectious Disease & Prevention here, part two, Clinical Pharmacist Services here, and part …
Pulmonary Consults & Procedures
The final installment in our five-part Telemedicine Services series on the blog. Read part one, Infectious Disease & Prevention here, part two, Clinical Pharmacist Services here, part …
Telemedicine: Critical access at a critical time
Access. Quality. Cost. In 1994, William Kissick introduced us to these three facets of the “Iron Triangle” of health care. The theory that we can …
Making the virtual exam a reality
Recently, Dr. Andrew Schmitt wrote about how careful and ethical implementation of telemedicine can provide a solution to the “Iron Triangle” of Access, Quality, and …
COVID Surge is NOT a Business Model for Beam Healthcare
As the dark cloud of COVID settled over us in March, hospitals across the country were looking for ways to help and support their inpatient …
Why Politicians Should Promote Telemedicine and eHealth
2020 has been a bit of a crazy one when it comes to health care. All the normal, day-to-day medical problems seem to have taken …