Azalea in the News

As part of their ongoing series of telehealth interviews with EHR vendors, Healthcare IT Today interviewed Baha Zeidan, Co-founder and CEO of Azalea Health. In this series, they talk with EHR vendors to better understand how they’re approaching telehealth. Are they developing telehealth in house or are they relying on…

When Brian Miller arrived at Arkansas’ DeWitt Hospital a year-and-a-half ago as the CEO, he knew he had to implement a new EHR system. He also knew the rural hospital needed an interoperability boost due to its lack of updated health IT. “We were just about to launch Azalea Health…

That was just one discovery made by MEBS Counseling when COVID-19 accelerated its plans to add telemedicine. Today it’s seeing close to its normal volume of patients with telehealth alone. MEBS already had been using Azalea Health’s electronic health record software since 2014 but early March, MEBS began to look…

Roughly 8.6 million Americans live more than 30 minutes from a hospital. For them, broadband can serve as the main gateway to healthcare, providing the primary means for connecting with physicians, information, and resources that would otherwise be unavailable due to distance and isolation. Broadband gaps have been closely associated with…

Rural hospitals are grappling with high rates of chronic disease, lack of broadband access, and workforce shortages that are exacerbated by the low pay and professional isolation that are characteristic of rural settings. It is from within this digital divide that rural hospitals have learned so much they can pass…