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Blue Jeans Network has partnered with Stratus Video to resell the Blue Jeans service to its customers through Stratus Video.

With desktop clients like Microsoft Lync or Stratus Video's ViewMe HD, as well as popular consumer solutions such as Skype and Google (News - Alert), Blue Jeans is the first and only video conferencing service able to bridge together conference room solutions from Cisco (News - Alert), Polycom, Lifesize and others. On traditional enterprise video conferencing equipment, remote workers, call center associates and employees with access to Skype (News - Alert) and a video-enabled desktop or mobile device, can participate in video meetings with their colleagues or doctors, for the first time, patients.

“What Blue Jeans Network has brought to the industry is game changing. We now have a viable solution that allows our customers to extend the reach of our ViewMe HD video collaboration platform, and their conference room video systems to reach remote users," said William Cobb, general manager, Stratus Video. "Customers have long been asking for interoperability in the video conferencing industry and the Blue Jeans service gives us the unique opportunity to go back to our customers.”

Stratus Video has earned a reputation as the go-to provider for on-demand, video interpretation services in the healthcare industry, according to company officials. Moreover, Stratus has capitalized on the opportunity to improve patient care, save time, reduce risks and lower costs with the current state of healthcare. Its remote video interpreting and video call center solutions provide on-demand video and audio interpreting, 24x7, in 170 different languages. As the patients are able to communicate in their native languages, this provides improved patient satisfaction and lower medical risk.

The company launched in late 2011 as a way to enhance everyday communications with business grade video conferencing solutions. Businesses and government agencies, including Wal-Mart, Boeing (News - Alert) and the Social Security Administration are using similar technology from Stratus’s parent company to improve communications with deaf and hard-of-hearing clients. Now, hospitals may be able to harness video conferencing and save lives in the process.