ATA - American Telemedicine Association

8:30am		Registration and Continental Breakfast with Exhibitors


9:00am-9:30am		Opening Plenary: *ATA's Strategic Initiatives for Telemedicine* Elizabeth Krupinski, PhD President American Telemedicine Association Assistant Director, Program Evaluation, University of Arizona Department of Radiology - Research Tucson, AZ Jon Linkous Chief Executive Officer American Telemedicine Association Washington, DC


9:45am – 10:45am		Introductions and Overview Moderator Rhonda Chetney, MS, RN Director, Customer Operations Intel Corporation, Digital Health Group Norfolk, VA Expert Panel: Smart Home–Smart Patient: Telehealth and the New Digital Home Leading experts will discuss what a Smart Home really is and how it helps people age successfully in place. Find out about digital technology advancements that will transform care delivery for patients with age-related ailments and chronic conditions. Market trends of healthcare services and applications as well as opportunities for care service providers in this growing and diverse environment will be covered. Moderator Susan L. Dimmick, PhD Intel Corporation, Digital Health Group Knoxville, TN Digital Home: A New Platform for Quality Care Delivery Harry Wang, MS, MBA Senior Analyst Director, Health & Mobile Product Research Parks Associates Smart Spaces for Urban Environments Jayfus T. Doswell, PhD President/CEO Juxtopia, LLC Baltimore, MD


10:45am – 11:15am		Coffee Break with Exhibitors Supported by Viterion TeleHealthcare & CTEC


11:15am - 12:15pm		Expert Panel: Put Your Strengths to Work for Effective Home Telehealth For the past three years, federally funded Quality Improvement Organizations (QIOs) have been assisting home health agencies throughout the United States in implementing and utilizing telehealth as a tool to help reduce acute care hospitalizations and improve patient outcomes. This session will address the soon-to-be released study from the QIOs’ Home Health Quality Improvement Organization Support Center that compares outcomes between agencies using telehealth with those that are providing traditional onsite care. The study focuses on home telehealth skills and strengths to capitalize on the projected 70% growth over the next three-to-five years in home telehealth patient monitoring. An agency self-assessment tool to evaluate their strengths for support an effective telehealth remote patient monitoring program is included in the report to encourage participation and reflection. Moderator Sharon Jones, MSN, RN, CNAA VNA Healthcare Partners of Ohio Cleveland, OH Review of the QIO Telehealth Utilization Analysis Bonnie Kerns, RN, BSN (Formerly with Quality Insights of PA, HHQIOSC) Education Manager Intel Corporation, Digital Health Bentleyville, PA Telehealth: The Strength of Looking Closely Jackie Kern Director of Telehealth Service Comprehensive Wellness Services Ft. Lauderdale, FL Telecare & Best Practices: A Partnership to Strengthn Clinical Outcomes Bridget Gallagher Senior Vice President of Community Services Jewish Home & Hospital Home Health Care System New York, New York


12:15pm – 2:00pm		Luncheon – Keynote: Telemedicine, Pediatric Telehealth and International Outreach Lord and Lady Swinfen Directors The Swinfen Charitable Trust Wingham, Canterbury United Kingdom Lord and Lady Swinfen set up the Swinfen Charitable Trust in 1998, with the aim of assisting poor, sick and disabled people in the developing world. The Trust's policy is to do this by establishing telemedicine links between hospitals in the developing world and medical specialists who generously give free advice by e-mail.


2:15pm – 3:00pm		Breakouts: Hot Topics in Home Telehealth and Remote Monitoring Hot topics in home telehealth and remote monitoring will be the focus of these two breakout sessions. Presentations by leading experts will be followed by interactive discussion with attendees. Come and learn how to set up a business plan, show a return on your investment and get buy-in at your organization. Also learn about the legal, policy and risk management considerations, the steps to take when choosing an equipment vendor and the basics for designing affective studies and getting to outcomes. Champions and Cheerleaders - Selling Telehealth to CEOs, CFOs, CIOs, CMO, and Health Providers Dale Alverson, MD Medical Director, Center for Telehealth University of New Mexico Health Sciences Albuquerque, NM What to Buy? Consideration for Chosing an Equipment Vendor Based on Your Needs Sandra Bennis Assistant Vice President Executive Director, Virtua Home Care Mount Laurel, NJ This session will present the steps an organization may take when selecting new technologies. Come hear about the Quality Function Deployment (QFD) process that translates customer needs into design characteristics and actions to build and deliver a quality product. Virtua Home Care will share their lessons learned that successfully satisfied both business and clinical objectives during their evaluation of technologies and vendor selection for home telehealth / telemonitoring services. Risk Management Considerations in Home Telehealth Amy Johnston The Campania Group Vienna, VA The need for telehealth applications in home care continues to increase. With this increase comes the need for reliable systems and risk management protocol adapted to address the unique liabilities associated with telehealth delivery. This presentation is designed to supply home care managers with practical strategies for dealing with vendors and staff, to reduce their organization's overall liability exposure while ensuring quality patient outcomes.


3:00pm - 3:15pm		Break


3:15pm - 4:00pm		Breakouts Hot Topics in Home Telehealth and Remote Monitoring Business Planning - Developing a Needs Assessment and Identifying the ROI Nina Antoniotti, RN, MBA, PhD Program Manager-TeleHealth Marshfield Clinic TeleHealth Network Marshfield, WI Does Telehealth business planning have you going around in circles? This session will help get you on the straight and narrow! Simple principles of business planning for telehealth initiatives, picking the right business model, determining where your money comes from, and how to structure telehealth business relationships will be addressed. Come armed with your business questions for discussion and solutions! Legal and Policy Issues Affecting the Provision of Remote Services James M. Jorling, JD Powers, Pyles, Sutter & Verville, P.C. Washington, DC Getting to Outcomes Elizabeth Krupinski, PhD Assistant Director, Program Evaluation University of Arizona Department of Radiology - Research Tucson, AZ Outcomes, outcomes, outcomes! Telemedicine programs are being pressured today by funding agencies, regulatory bodies, financial supporters and a variety of other agencies to report outcomes. How can this be accomplished when the main goal of telemedicine programs is to improve access and patient care – not carry out scientific investigations? This session will present some of the basics for getting to outcomes – where to start, how to design simple yet effective studies, how to analyze them, and how to present the results to those who matter.


4:00pm - 4:30pm		Keynote: From the Caterpillar to the Butterfly: Transformative Models with Home Telehealth and Remote Monitoring Jay H. Shore, MD, MPH University of Colorado at Denver American Indian and Alaska Native Programs Aurora, CO Advances in home telehealth and remote monitoring not only enhance access and quality of care but hold the promise to transform current systems and models of care. This presentation will examine how home telehealth and remote monitoring challenge current assumptions in medicine and impact systems of care on multiple levels. Future directions for the field as well as needed changes in system configurations for optimization of technologies will be discussed.


4:30pm		Reception with Exhibitors