The 3rd Annual Leadership Summit on Telehealth

Remote patient monitoring undoubtedly offers health care organizations a great opportunity to connect with patients and monitor their health. What is less clear is whether the long term benefits outweigh the costs of implementing an RPM program.

• Hear an ROI study on remote patient monitoring and understand what the results mean for your organization
• Understand how this technology can be most efficiently and effectively used to guarantee ROI
• Realize the benefits other organizations are seeing and why they are adopting RPM technology
• Review which areas of clinical care have the most cost-saving potential for implementing RPM

Once you have implemented a remote patient monitoring program, there are many things to consider in order to sustain daily operations. Hear from two organizations with extensive experience in Remote Patient Monitoring and Telehealth and understand how to incorporate technology into clinical strategy.

• Understand how to scale a program effectively and determine the goals of the program
• Learn best practices for managing all of the participants in the program, including nurses, physicians, and patients
• Effectively control costs and manage additional technological needs for the program
• Incorporate RPM into the overall Telehealth program goals

Next year, telehealth is estimated to save the health care industry over six billion dollars. Establishing programs that create value for patients results in this savings. Many organizations have recognized the potential of Telehealth to create value. In the following session, hear effective strategies to:

• Emphasize partnerships with providers
• Strive to reduce the complexity of telehealth for providers
• Educate patients about Telehealth
• Integrate Telehealth programs into clinical workflow

Many organizations that adopt RPM also find it effective to couple the technologies with a virtual visit to the health care provider. Combining RPM with a virtual visit supplies the provider with the information necessary to assess the patient.

• Discover strategies for developing and implementing RPM and virtual visit programs
• Examine ways to reduce costs when adding virtual visits
• Uncover the positive outcomes that providers are seeing after implementing these programs

One of the major benefits of the increased use of technology in health care is access to significant amounts of data about patients. Using this data effectively can strengthen RPM programs and enhance patient care.

• Understand the process for effectively integrating RPM data
• Explore the tools and resources needed to integrate and manage RPM data and data from other sources
• Discover best practices for analyzing data and translating it into meaningful information for the provider and patient

In addition to the challenges that arise from altering work flows and adding new technologies, one major obstacle to implementing and sustaining RPM programs is reimbursement. Although providers are offering services similar to those they would provide in their offices, Remote Patient Monitoring is not reimbursed the same as an in-person visit.

• Discover which health plans currently reimburses for RPM
• Uncover steps to take to increase the likelihood of reimbursement for services
• Explore where federal and state programs stand on reimbursement and where they are headed

As remote monitoring continues to mature, organizations will be challenged with creating seamless integration between remote monitoring and other channels of patient engagement – like voice, web, mobile apps, and even care coordination resources – in order to support a broader unified patient engagement strategy. Integrating omni-channel patient communication, of which remote monitoring is a part, with evidence-based care plans will be imperative for provider and payer organizations looking to execute successful population health management initiatives.

• Learn the key drivers of a unified patient engagement strategy
• Explore how evidence based care plans can be used to automate patient interactions
• Discuss the role of modernized Patient Access Centers in successful patient engagement