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Friday, January 31, 2014
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7:30 am -
8:00 am
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8:00 am -
8:10 am
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8:10 am -
9:00 am
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Opening Keynote Panel: Patient Engagement and the Hospital — What Is Working? |
You can coordinate care, facilitate home health, plan the perfect discharge, and still not reduce rates without one key thing — Patient Engagement.
In this session, learn:
- How hospitals and health plans are engaging their patients
- The most common barriers to patient engagement
- Steps to implement patient engagement into your discharge plan
- Telehealth solutions that are working to engage patients
- Why patient engagement isn’t just a buzzword — It’s the key to reducing your rates
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Nancy Grant
Director of National Contracting
Humana
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Kim Tharp-Barrie, DNP, RN, SANE
System Vice President
Norton Healthcare Institute for Nursing and Workforce Outreach
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9:00 am -
9:50 am
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9:50 am -
10:15 am
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10:15 am -
11:00 am
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Case study: How Geisinger Reduced Readmissions Rates by 44% with Remote Monitoring |
| Remote monitoring has proven to be successful when adopted in to a patient’s regiment of care. Geisinger reduced readmissions for all patients
including chronically ill patients significantly with its program. In this session, learn how its telehealth program helps patients with chronic conditions
stay healthy and out of the hospital and how Geisinger reduced readmissions by 44% with telehealth. |
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Joann Sciandra
Associate Vice President, Population Health
Geisinger Health Plan
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11:00 am -
11:45 am
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Case study: Implementing Telehealth into a Continuum of Care Across a Large Provider Organization |
UPMC shares its experiences using telehealth after a patient leaves the hospital. Learn the strengths and weaknesses of the program and gain insight
from the lessons the organization has learned along the way.
- Learn how to utilize remote monitoring successfully
- Identify best strategies for utilizing hospital specialists for rural and remote follow up exams
- Prevent patients with chronic illness from being readmitted to the hospital
- Maintain the health of patients after discharge
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Natasa Sokolovich, JD, MSHCP
Executive Director, Telemedicine and Senior Director, Affiliated Physician Services
UPMC
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11:45 am -
12:45 pm
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12:45 pm -
1:25 pm
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Redefining the Continuum of Care |
| University of Miami has been working on telehealth applications for years. In this session hear how telehealth has helped them redefine the continuum of care. |
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Scott Simmons
Director of Telehealth
University of Miami
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1:25 pm -
2:05 pm
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Bringing Healthcare to your Living Room: Massachusetts General Hospital’s Implementation of TelePsychiatry and the Road Ahead |
| Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) TeleHealth enables MGH clinicians and community providers to provide high-quality, coordinated care to patients and families. Using telecommunications technology including videoconferencing, mobile applications, remote monitoring, SMS, e-mail and phone, the MGH TeleHealth program supports programs across a variety of clinical areas. This session will focus on the virtual video visits for MGH Psychiatry patients with conditions ranging from ADHD, Anxiety, Autism, Depression, PTSD, and Substance Abuse. Through the lens of TelePsychiatry, you will hear some of the lessons learned in implementation of virtual video visits at MGH, and the strategic roadmap for future program expansion and technical integration of other tools include remote monitoring.
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Sarah Sossong
Director of TeleHealth
Massachusetts General Hospital
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2:05 pm -
2:45 pm
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CLOSING KEYNOTE: The Future of Telehealth and the Continuum of Care |
| As many organizations search for ways to improve the quality of health care, telehealth will continue to become a popular choice for providing
better access to care during the continuum of care. In this session Paula Guy will give her views on where telehealth is going and how it will continue
to enhance the continuum of care. |
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Paula Guy
Chief Executive Officer
Georgia Partnership for Telehealth
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3:00 pm
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