Azalea in the News

Virtudent launched Virtudent Connect, our teledentistry solution, in March of 2020 as a response to the pandemic to provide access to care to our patients. When the American Dental Association recommended that dental offices should halt non-emergency care, we felt it imperative to our mission to ensure that we had a solution that enabled…

In the year since the COVID-19 pandemic emerged, telemedicine — healthcare appointments and consultations provided at home through video conferencing and mobile apps — has increasingly become the norm. To avoid long stays in waiting rooms, and out of caution over risk of possible COVID-19 exposure, people have viewed telehealth appointments as a method…

Physicians were frustrated by the cumbersome user experience of their EHR, which made for endless clicking and time-consuming documentation. Many felt like the EHR had been designed more for regulatory compliance and billing than for improving patient care. The EHR also was exorbitantly expensive, executives said, especially for a smaller…

As we start vaccinating frontline workers and at-risk populations across the world, it seems that the end is in sight for the COVID-19 pandemic. We have a multitude of technologies, old and new, to thank for helping humanity make it through this crisis. From artificial intelligence (AI) applications to UV light, we’ll…

As telehealth users grow to 40 million + in the United States, systems are focusing on fine-tuning delivery and driving modality efficiencies Payer Consortium releases Legislative Recommendations A consortium led the by the non-partisan Catalyst for Payment Reform released its top four recommendations for lawmakers as they consider the post-Covid future of…

Kentucky-based MEBS Counseling shifted to a telehealth platform as the coronavirus pandemic took hold last year. Nine months later, the clinic is still learning about the benefits and challenges. The coronavirus pandemic forced many counseling centers to transition quickly to telehealth this past year. Some have had an easier time…