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Telemedicine

Broadband Healthcare Applications:. Telemedicine. Jenelle O’Donnell, Telemedicine Coordinator. About Winona Health. Nonprofit healthcare provider

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Telemedicine

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  1. Broadband Healthcare Applications: Telemedicine Jenelle O’Donnell, Telemedicine Coordinator

  2. About Winona Health • Nonprofit healthcare provider • Winona Health is governed by a board of community volunteers who adopts governance policies and practices to guide the organization’s fulfillment of its mission: • to improve the health and well-being of the community and the patients it serves. Winona Health has: -More than 60 physicians and associate providers -13 specialties -More than 1,100 employees -More than 400 volunteers -99-bed hospital -140-bed nursing home -60-apartment assisted living community -20-apartment assisted living community for memory care

  3. Starting Our Telemedicine Adventure… • Federal Beacon Grant • Awarded in 2011 • Started Telemedicine visits in August 2012 • Wanted to focus our start on Primary Care • With the intension to progress to specialty care • Partnered with local broadband operator • Hiawatha Broadband Corporation-Winona, MN

  4. What is Telemedicine?

  5. WinonaHealth’sdefinition: Telemedicine: A professional medical appointment between a patient and a Provider through interactive video conference. Telehealth: The delivery of health related services and patient information via telecommunication technologies. Example: sending an x-ray or collecting vital signs for the ability to monitor patients at home.

  6. Other Broadband Uses…

  7. Who is involved to make this work?

  8. What types of locations are connected? Winona Health

  9. What departments/services are offered?

  10. Key Uses of Telemedicine

  11. Positive Outcomes Just as it takes a village to raise a child, there is a sense here that it takes a community to keep one healthy.

  12. Benefits of Telemedicine • Increasing access to healthcare by providing an alternative way to connect with a provider • Saving time • Efficient • Quality and clarity-both video and appointment • Opportunity to invite remote family members to appointments or care conferences • Costs the same as a face to face clinic visit and most insurance companies now pay for Telemedicine • Significant cost savings • Ambulance transports and ED visits

  13. More Benefits of Telemedicine… • Saves travel for both patients and providers • Especially if they have mobility issues • Reduce re-admission to the hospital • Flexibility of the system • Improve patients’ overall health status and quality of life in a manner that is convenient for the patient and creates a meaningful patient experience • **Create a cost-effective model for health care delivery

  14. Barriers to Telemedicine • Connectivity to rural areas ex. Home Care • Limits the use of this technology & reduces access to patients in need of care • Credentialing and Privileging of providers • Licensure in every state in which they see patients • Credentialed at every building where patients are located • Reimbursement for services or certain providers • Diabetic Educator to NH’s • Visits in the home

  15. What is the future of Telemedicine at Winona Health? Goals and Future State of Winona Health Telemedicine

  16. Closing Points • Telemedicine technology works • It’s robust and adaptable • Telemedicine is one of the solutions needed to address the challenges in healthcare.

  17. QUESTIONS?

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