UPMC Teams up with BL Healtchare
UPMC Teams with BL Healthcare for Remote Healthcare Initiative : To Include
Investment in BL Healthcare
As mentioned in news release, UPMC announced a joint initiative with BL Healthcare to address the issues of access to quality healthcare and rising healthcare costs by using technology to provide remote care over broadband. UPMC Health Plan will leverage BL Healthcare’s next generation remote monitoring platform to provide unique and innovative services to their members.
This initiative will enable such services as at-home vital sign monitoring and real-time video connections with clinicians for UPMC Health Plan members with chronic conditions. The initiative also leverages a strategic investment by PMC Health Plan in BL Healthcare, a Massachusetts-based electronic health technology company.
The news release adds that, “BL Healthcare has gone beyond simple remote monitoring of vital signs to provide an integrated platform focused on the needs of our members, with advanced functionality such as videoconferencing, education using on-demand movies,
real-time messaging and alerts, and unique member interaction features. UPMC Health Plan along with its parent company UPMC, has embraced the concept of telehealth because we see it as a means to provide scarce healthcare and medical expertise to vulnerable populations.”
“UPMC is taking an aggressive leadership position in driving innovative new evidence based medicine practices for remote care management,” according to Michael Mathur, President and CEO of BL Healthcare. “We are confident that this will result in the dramatic efficiencies that our national healthcare
system requires in order to be sustainable. UPMC Health Plan’s vision and proactive implementation will set an example for others to follow and we are pleased to be working with them as a partner.”
It gives me immense pleasure to be the sole hardware designer of the BL Healthcare’s business products. I expect that in forthcoming days BL Healthcare will reach new heights with its innovative product lines.
SOURCE : UPMC Health Plan
Gina Pferdehirt, Director, Public Relations & Community Relations of UPMC
Health Plan, +1-412-454-4953, pferdehirtgm@upmc.edu