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Telehealth Applications

Telehealth Applications. What can we do with this technology? Presented by: Jennifer Baron Telemedicine Program Director Clarian Health Indianapolis, Indiana. Telemedicine and Telehealth.

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Telehealth Applications

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  1. Telehealth Applications What can we do with this technology? Presented by: Jennifer Baron Telemedicine Program Director Clarian Health Indianapolis, Indiana

  2. Telemedicine and Telehealth “Telemedicine and telehealth both describe the use of medical information exchanged from one site to another via electronic communications to improve patients’ health status” http://americantelemed.org/ICOT/Terminology.pdf

  3. Different Types of Applications • Radiology • File Transfer • Electronic Medical Record • Store and Forward • Live and Interactive • Distance Learning Education (CME)

  4. Different Types of Applications • Radiology • File Transfer • Electronic Medical Record • Store and Forward • Live and Interactive • Distance Learning Education (CME)

  5. Radiology/File Transfers' • Diagnostics done can be sent quickly to a specialist for reading • Patients can stay in their local community and receive results within a short time frame. Down to 2 hours or less turn around time for results in many cases. Used to take up to two weeks.

  6. Different Types of Applications • Radiology • File Transfer • Electronic Medical Record • Store and Forward • Live and Interactive • Distance Learning Education (CME)

  7. Electronic Medical Records • Allows for seamless communication between primary care physicians and specialists sometimes hundreds of miles away • Increased quality of care due to better communication

  8. Changing Times President-elect Barack Obama said in a speech at George Mason University last week that all Americans must have electronic health records (EHRs) by 2014 in order to save dollars and lives. Source: Telemedicine and e-health electronic newsletter; Liebert Publishing

  9. Different Types of Applications • Radiology • File Transfer • Electronic Medical Record • Store and Forward • Live and Interactive • Distance Learning Education (CME)

  10. Secure Server Patient Doctor Doctor Telehealth Platform PCP Specialist What is Store-and-Forward Store-and-Forward: A Web-based telemedicine application that allows for the secure transfer of; • Patient medical records • Vital Signs • Pictures • Blood Sugars • Video footage • ECGs • EKGs • EEGs Firewall Encrypted Data

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  12. What is Live and Interactive Telemedicine?

  13. What is Live and Interactive Telemedicine? Utilizing videoconferencing technology to provide real time medical consultation between provider and patient or provider and provider.

  14. Benefits of Telemedicine • Allows patient to receive medical care in their own community. • Lessens the amount of travel time for both patients and specialists. • Reduces sense of isolation felt by rural providers. • Enhances continuity of patient care.

  15. Translating to Data In 2008 Clarian Telemedicine saved Indiana residents an accumulated 83,668 drive miles Cost savings at the pump: $36, 672.00

  16. Patient SatisfactionClarian Telemedicine 2008 99.1% of patients say they would participate in another telemedicine visit 98.2% of patients say they would recommend a telemedicine visit to others

  17. What Our Patients Say “Thought Telemedicine was awesome and would recommend it to family and friends” “The service was a great experience and very convenient” “It saved us a 3 hour drive, we loved it.” “Please keep this service available.”

  18. Our Providers and Coordinators tell us: “(Clarian) Telemedicine has allowed us to promptly see new patients a long distance from Riley without disrupting the parents’ work or the child’s school schedule. Long drives for the visits following surgery are eliminated. Telemedicine allows families to have the expertise available at Riley right in their hometown.” Richard Rink, MD Riley Hospital for Children

  19. Our Providers and Coordinators tell us: Telemedicine is very rewarding and fun.  I have been a telemedicine nurse at Deaconess for 5 years.  Once we present this option to parents they are very comfortable and happy with the outcome.  The doctors that I work with at Riley are awesome.  They seem to like telemedicine as much as I do.  The Evansville location is more convenient for parents and saves them time and money.  It is a way of the future.  Mary Carner Clinical Coordinator Deaconess Hospital Evansville

  20. Different Types of Applications • Radiology • File Transfer • Electronic Medical Record • Store and Forward • Live and Interactive • Distance Learning Education (CME)

  21. Distance Learning Cost effective way for health care providers to participate in educational conferences In 2008 Clarian Telemedicine broadcast 225 educational events saving Indiana physicians 67, 971 drive miles Cost savings at the pump: $30,672

  22. Distance Learning • Many educational opportunities include continuing medical education credits • Allows health care providers to be more productive and lose less “windshield time” for educational events.

  23. A Bigger Picture • American Telemedicine Association • Medicare Reimbursement expansion • Incentives for integration of telemedicine • Expansion of federal initiatives that advance the deployment of telemedicine particularly within emergency preparedness and response • Universal Service Funding

  24. Questions?

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