The World Congress Leadership Summit on Telemedicine
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Day 1

Thursday, July 26, 2012
7:00 am -
8:00 am
Summit Registration and Welcome Coffee in the Executive Networking Lounge
8:00 am -
8:15 am
CHAIRPERSON’S WELCOME AND OPENING REMARKS
8:15 am -
9:15 am
KEYNOTE OPENING ADDRESS: The Emergence of Telemedicine and its Impact on Patient-Centered Care
  • Impact of care “closest to home”
  • Better healthcare outcomes through technology
  • Involvement of Patient and PCP in specialty health care decisions through technology
Moderator:
Jeffrey P. Kesler Jeffrey P. Kesler, PsyD
Chief Operations Officer
Georgia Partnership for TeleHealth
Panelists:
Joseph C. Kvedar Joseph C. Kvedar, MD
Director, Center for Connected Health
Partners HealthCare
Roy Schoenberg Roy Schoenberg, MD, MPH
President and Chief Executive Officer
American Well Systems
Debbie Voyles Debbie Voyles, MBA
Director of Telemedicine, F. Marie Hall Institute for Rural and Community Health
Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center
9:15 am -
10:15 am
Transitioning to a Virtual Care Model: Initial Steps and On-Going Management Considerations
  • Effectively leveraging your sub-specialists
  • Understanding HIPAA Compliance/Privacy directives
  • Creating actionable strategies secure funding to initial start-up and on-going functions
  • Assessing staffing needs on-site and within remote treatment locations
  • Establishing protocol for communicating patient outcome goals across entire care team
Co-Panelists:
Alexander M. Nason Alexander M. Nason
Program Director
Johns Hopkins Medicine, Office of Telehealth and Interactive Learning
Karen Rheuban Karen Rheuban, MD
Medical Director, Office of Telemedicine
University of Virginia
10:15 am -
10:45 am
Networking and Refreshment Break in the Executive Networking Lounge
10:45 am -
11:45 am
KEYNOTE PANEL DISCUSSION: The “Joslin Everywhere” Diabetes Mobile Health Initiative
  • Address the need to improve access to care, elevate the quality of care and reduce costs with technology
  • Outline a strategic plan to develop a virtual platform to engage patients and primary care providers online and through mobile devices
  • Discuss the development of consumer facing tools that allow remote participation in weight management programs and the ability to track glucose levels with data sent directly to care providers
Moderator:
Joseph C. Kvedar Joseph C. Kvedar, MD
Director, Center for Connected Health
Partners HealthCare
Panelists:
Martin Abrahamson Martin Abrahamson, MD
Chief Medical Officer
Joslin Diabetes Center
Catherine Carver Catherine Carver, MS ANP, CDE
Vice President for Planning & Advocacy
Joslin Diabetes Center
Paul Penta Paul Penta, MBA
Manager, Web Care
Joslin Diabetes Center
**Co-Located with 4th Annual mHealth World Congress
11:45 am -
12:30 pm
Health Resources and Services Adminstration Update: Funding Opportunities and Current Initiatives
  • Discussion of the grant programs and initiatives within the Office for the Advancement of Telehealth
  • Overview of HRSA telehealth activities
  • Presentation on “FedTel”, the cross Federal government work-group on telehealth
Sherilyn Z. Pruitt Sherilyn Z. Pruitt, MPH
Director, Office for the Advancement of Telehealth
Office of Rural Health Policy, HRSA
12:30 pm -
2:00 pm
Networking Luncheon in the Executive Networking Lounge
2:00 pm -
2:45 pm
CASE STUDY: Smart Condo - A Sensing Platform and Evaluative Tool for Independent Living
  • Overview of the anticipated increase in an world population - with people desiring to live independently at home, along with a shortage of health-care professionals
  • The need to develop technological supports for people with chronic yet manageable conditions to monitor and take care of their own health
  • In the Smart Condo, a sensor-based infrastructure is being developed for non-intrusively monitoring and analyzing the activities of people at home
  • A virtual reality is used that reflects the environment and activities to visualize the sensor information, as well as web-accessible charts
  • Initial results will be discussed from experimental study
Eleni Stroulia Eleni Stroulia
Professor and NSERC/AITF Industrial Research Chair, Service Systems Management - Department of Computing Science
University of Alberta
2:45 pm -
3:45 pm
Pediatric Specialist Care Delivered Via Regional and International Telemedicine
  • Global Telemedicine experience with measureable outcomes
  • Developing a network for regional telemedicine pediatric emergency care
  • Establishing convenient access to pediatric specialty care
Moderator:
Naomi Fried Naomi Fried, PhD
Chief Innovation Officer
Children’s Hospital Boston
Panelists:
Jeanne Casilli Jeanne Casilli
Vice President, Strategic Business Development
Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh
Ricardo A. Muñoz Ricardo A. Muñoz, MD, FAAP, FCCM, F.A.C.C.
Medical Director, Telemedicine
Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh
Molly Reyna Molly Reyna
Executive Director, Telehealth Services, Videoconferencing
Children’s National Medical Center
3:45 pm -
4:00 pm
Networking and Refreshment Break in the Executive Networking Lounge
4:00 pm -
4:45 pm
Telemedicine for Diabetic Retinopathy: An Expanding Horizon
  • Examination of public health and the global need for diabetes eye care
  • Current effective evidence-based eye care in reducing the risk of visual loss
  • Why present programs cannot meet the challenge of caring for the increasing number of persons with diabetes
  • Telemedicine and innovations in eye care delivery: Addressing the growing burden of diabetes eye care
Paolo Antonio S. Silva Paolo Antonio S. Silva, M.D.
Staff Ophthalmologist and Assistant Chief of the Center for Ocular Telehealth
Joslin’s Beetham Eye Institute, Harvard Medical School
4:45 pm -
5:15 pm
CASE STUDY: TelePsychiatry - An Examination of Telemedicine Acceptability and Feasibility
  • Necessary activities to carry out for the preparation to launch
  • The impact of institutional readiness
  • Are dedicated personnel necessary?
  • Results analysis from telepsychiatry and tele-epilepsy studies
Jenny Chong Jenny Chong, PhD
Department of Neurology and Native American Research and Training Center
University of Arizona
5:15 pm -
5:30 pm
Chairperson’s Closing Remarks
5:30 pm -
6:30 pm
Networking Cocktail Reception in the Executive Networking Lounge