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Marconi
& Carle Foundations Hospital
Telemedicine Integration Into the Referral Process
Carle Foundation Hospital started its telemedicine program
in 1994 and today offers patient consults and videoconferencing
at 15 regional sites. In selecting the next generation of
telemedicine technology, Carle rated ease of use and quality
as key criteria. After extensive evaluation Carle selected
and implemented the Marconi Virtual Presence (ViPr) system
from Exhibit One Corporation, who also provided design and
integration services. Today the integration of telemedicine
into existing Physician Access Line (PAL) referral processes,
availability of consults-on-demand and ease of use have significantly
grown the telemedicine program at Carle Foundation Hospital.
SBC
Communications, Inc. & University of Arkansas for Medical
Sciences (ppt)
Director - Rural Hospital Program
The University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences includes the
telehealth network of the Rural Hospital Program (RHP) and ANGELS
(Antenatal and Neonatal Guidelines, Education and Learning System).
RHP and ANGELS offer expert leadership in the effort to reduce
health care disparities in rural Arkansas. SBC was selected
as the video network and endpoint equipment provider for the
RHP and ANGELS projects.
Honeywell
HomMed & Strategic Healthcare Programs, LLC
Technology: The Impact on Quality of Care
Barbara Rosenblum, CEO, RN, BSN, MAOM, from Strategic Healthcare
Programs, a nationally recognized healthcare data services
company, will be joining Honeywell HomMed personnel in a presentation
on "Technology: The Impact on Quality of Care". Together they
will demonstrate how remote patient monitoring technology
can have a dramatic impact on hospitalizations, ED visits,
ADL's and IADL's and improve the quality of care across a
variety of disease states. In addition, Honeywell HomMed and
Strategic Healthcare Programs will share best practices for
implementing technology with an integrated care plan.
ViTel
Net & Dr. Craig Sable, Children's National Medical Center,
Washington, DC (ppt)
Pediatric Cardiology, Clinical and Financial Aspects of a
Successful Program
ealth
Hero Network, Inc. & Henry Ford Health Systems
(ppt)
Henry Ford experiences using the Health Buddy System
Henry Ford Health System in Michigan implemented a telemedicine
disease management program for heart failure patients utilizing
the Health Hero Network Health Buddy system. The deployment
of the Health Buddy system was utilized in four areas of their
organization and include heart failure patients that were
post transplant as well as patients that had a lower severity
of the disease. The Henry Ford HMO group has also installed
the Health Buddy system to manage their heart failure patient
population. The goals of the program are to provide efficient
and effective quality of care and decrease health care costs.
Julie Cheitlin Cherry, RN, MSN, Medical Director at Health
Hero Network will join Jonathan Erhman, Ph.D Associate Program
Director, Preventive Cardiology at Henry Ford Heart and Vascular
Institute in this presentation.
AMD
Homecare & The Medicine Shoppe Pharmacy
Lakeshore Apothecare Diabetes Telemonitoring Program
Background: Community pharmacists have an opportunity to utilize
telemonitoring technology and their relationships with local
providers to create a collaborative home-based patient monitoring
program.
Purpose: The purpose of this study is to identify patient
characteristics, via survey instrument, that may predict an
individual's successful participation in a home-based telemonitoring
program.
Methods: Patients enrolled in the Lakeshore Apothecare Diabetes
Telemonitoring Program are potential subjects. Participation
is voluntary and consent to participate will be asked via
a cover letter accompanying the final survey. As part of the
Lakeshore Apothecare Diabetes Telemonitoring Program, all
patients enrolled between December 14, 2004 and March 1, 2005
will receive a survey prior to their training on how to use
the telemonitoring device. Subjects will be assigned a code
number that appears on the first survey. Each subject will
be in the study for four weeks. Using only the code number
received upon completion of the first survey, the pharmacy
manager and coordinator of the Program will alert the researchers
if any subject has discontinued use of the telemonitoring
device. Either at the end of four weeks or following the discontinued
use of the telemonitoring device, each subject will receive
the second and final survey.
Results: Data results are being collected. Results will be
presented
Conclusions: The statistical analysis of the surveys result
will enable a determination of significant characteristics
of patients who participate in the telemonitoring program
for at least four weeks, and will contribute greatly to the
Lakeshore Apothecare Diabetes Telemonitoring Program through
improvements and lead to a better Program for future patients.
Polycom,
Inc. & University of Tennessee Health Sciences Center
(ppt)
The Telehealth Connection
The University of Tennessee Health Science Center (UTHSC)
in Memphis serves as the educational and research hub of one
of the nation's oldest and largest medical centers and is
part of the $4.5 billion healthcare industry in Memphis. The
Health Science Center, a key spoke in Memphis's healthcare
industry, currently employs 1,892 physicians who staff area
hospitals including the Methodist University Hospital Regional
Medical Center, the VA Medical Center, Le Bonheur Children's
Hospital, and numerous outpatient clinics across the region.
Icardiogram,
Incorporated & Shevet Achim (ppt)
Intercontinental Echocardiogram Transmission from Iraq via
the Internet
Iraq has been without congenital cardiac surgical services
for over a decade. There are large numbers of Iraqi children
in urgent need of congenital heart surgery that cannot currently
be performed because of the lack of security, facilities,
and personnel. To facilitate international surgical intervention,
Icardiogram and the relief organization Shevet Achim have
transmitted full length, full size echocardiograms from Baghdad
via the Internet to the Icardiogram server in Raleigh, N.C.
There were no new telecommunications costs. Physicians and
hospitals worldwide have examined these studies, and international
surgical services have been donated for Iraqi children as
a result.
TANDBERG
& SUNY Upstate Medical Center (ppt)
Cancer in the Classroom
When a child has a prolonged illness, one side effect is absence
from the classroom. This can impact a child's educational,
emotional and social development. Children
today have a means of attending school even from their hospital
beds. It's video communication. At the Center for
Children's Cancer and Blood Disorders at Upstate Medical University,
a new program called Staying Connected is Good Medicine is
providing real-time connections to patients' classrooms through
the use of interactive video communication technology from
TANDBERG. Portable video communication units follow patients
from hospital to home, enabling them to attend school regardless
of where they are. Nan
Songer, director of The Educational Connections Program at
Upstate Medical University, will discuss the profound impact
that video communication technology can have on children.
Songer will detail how video communication provides children
with a healthy dose of normalcy and continuity of instruction
and sends the encouraging message that parents, teachers and
the hospital team have genuine expectations for their recovery.
Songer will also reveal the most appropriate and cost
effective way to deliver video communication in a variety
of settings while maintaining optimal audio and video quality.
IBM
Healthcare and Life Sciences & Emory University Healthcare
Single Sign On at Emory Healthcare - A Case Study
Learn how Emory University is deploying a new security solution
that provides multi-factor authentication, automated sign-on
and password management. Previously, physicians, nurses and
administrators had to manage multiple logon credentials and
repeatedly enter passwords to
access their clinical applications.
iMetrikus,
Inc. & The Whittier Institute for Diabetes and Scripps
(ppt)
Physician, SAS
The Whittier Institute for Diabetes and Scripps worked with
iMetrikus to test the acceptance of low-cost remote monitoring
tools in an underserved medical community. Patients were recruited
and randomized into this diabetes program and received either
a MetrikLink universal modem or
continued in the usual treatment and visit schedule.
Similar improvements
in glycemic control were achieved with all patients in both
groups. The difference was that patients using MetrikLink achieved
these results with fewer resources and fewer in-person visits.
Remote monitoring increased cost-effectiveness and improved
patient access to care. Also both patients and providers reported
greater satisfaction with diabetes care.
American
TeleCare, Inc. & VNA of Somerset Hills, NJ
Partners for the New Age: Telehealth and Home Care in the treatment
of Heart Failure
The VNA of Somerset Hills implemented a telemedicine program
in March of 2001 to monitor Heart Failure patients utilizing
the SLX 1010 video monitoring system by American TeleCare Inc.
The telemonitoring of these patients has been shown to improve
patient outcomes by reducing re-hospitalization rates and length
of stay in home care, increasing patient satisfaction with care
and improve their perceptions of their health status, improving
compliance with medical regime and diet, reducing depression
and isolation and promoting independence through active participation
in their health care. |
