2016 Telehealth Summit
Connect. Collaborate. Communicate.
Agenda Outline
April 17-19, 2016
Kona Kai Resort and Spa
San Diego, CA
Sunday, April 17, 2016
12:00 pm – 1:00 pm
Registration Open
1:00 pm – 4:00 pm
California Telehealth Resource Center Pre-Summit Session
California Telehealth Resource Center is offering free 15-minute
one-on-one sessions to Summit attendees wishing to ask questions about
telemedicine,
implementation,
needs
assessment,
equipment,
operations, billing and more.
Sessions are by appointment only
. Contact
for more information or to schedule an
appointment.
6:30 pm – 8:30 pm
Welcome Reception (pool deck)
Sponsored by Polycom
Please join us for a reception welcoming attendees to the 2016 Telehealth
Summit. The reception is an excellent opportunity to network with
attendees and to meet and mingle with staff, board members, sponsors
and stakeholders. Light refreshments will be served.
Monday, April 18, 2016
8:00 am – 5:00 pm
Registration and Exhibits open
8:00 am – 9:00 am
Scholarship Recipient Breakfast
Sponsored by Safety Net Connect, Inc.
2016 Telehealth Summit scholarship recipients are required to
attend.
8:00 am – 9:00 am
Continental breakfast available in exhibit hall
Sponsored by American Telepsychiatrists and
Network Services Solutions
9:00 am – 9:15 am
Welcome – Eric Brown, President and Chief Executive Officer,
California Telehealth Network
10:00 am – 10:45 am
Behavioral Healthcare Provider Panel Discussion
- An Innovative
Solution for Dealing with Behavioral Crisis in Rural America
10:45 am – 11:00 am
Refreshment Break with Exhibitors
Sponsored by American Well
11:00 am – 12:00 pm
Breakout Sessions (5 concurrent sessions)
1.
Transforming the Management of Pain in Primary Care with
Project ECHO
Daren Anderson, M.D.
, Vice President, Chief Quality Officer,
Community Health Center, Inc.
Bennet Davis, M.D.
, President, Integrative Pain Center of
Arizona
This session will provide an overview of a national learning network providing practices in 14 states, including California, with access to expertise using Project ECHO teleconferences, eConsults, and PainNET, an interactive online learning community. 5-8 million Americans use opioids for “pain management,” 40-70% receive inappropriate treatment. Project ECHO case-based learning is a demonstrated, effective intervention for improving primary care providers’ clinical knowledge and ability to treat complex pain patients.
2.
Intermountain Healthcare: The Integrated Telehealth
Approach
Brian Wayling
, Assistant Vice President of Telehealth
Services, Intermountain Healthcare
Tara Larkin
, Director of Telehealth Operations,
Intermountain Healthcare
Intermountain Healthcare has taken a strategic, integrated approach, including using a common technology platform and a centralized clinical, operational, and technical team, to provide a seamless provider and patient experience, track quality metrics, and drive best practices. Brian and Tara will discuss results and lessons learned from the first two years of Intermountain’s TeleHealth strategy, from both a clinical and operational perspective, and the implementation of Intermountain’s “Big4” programs in critical care, stroke, crisis care, and newborn critical care.
3.
Tech Talk
Sajid Ahmed
, Chief Innovation and Information Officer, MLK
Community Hospital
Adam Culich
, Vice President of Technical Services, California
Telehealth Network
Jake Dorst
, Chief Information Officer, Tahoe Forest Health
System
Dan Kurywchak
, Chief Technology Officer, California
Telehealth Network
Jim Sorg, Ph.D.
, Director of Information Technology, Tarzana
Treatment Centers
This session is designed to be an open roundtable discussion for IT professionals interested in sharing best practices and lessons learned about telehealth equipment, services and broadband applications.
4.
CTRC - Implementation Roadmap
Kathy Chorba, Executive Director, California Telehealth
Resource Center
This session will walk through telehealth implementation and guidelines.
5.
Realizing the Promise of Telehealth for Children with Special
Health Care Needs
Jenny Kattlove, Senior Director of Programs, Children’s
Partnership
Telehealth has proven to be an effective tool in making specialized care more accessible for children with special health care needs (CSHCN), but in California providers and families are not using this service to its full potential. This presentation will explore the benefits of and barriers to using telehealth and provides policy recommendations to integrate telehealth into California’s health care delivery system for CSHCN.
12:00 pm – 12:45 pm
Networking Luncheon
1:00 pm – 2:00 pm
General Session –
Remote Patient Monitoring Panel
2:00 pm – 3:00 pm
General Session –
Creating Tele-Emergency and Tele-Nursery
Networks
Becca Litman
, Pediatric Telehealth and Outreach Manager,
UC Davis Health System
Jamie Kissee, MA
, Pediatric Tele-Emergency Project
Manager, UC Davis Health System
James Marcin, MD, MPH
, Professor and Division Chief,
Pediatric Critical Care, UC Davis Health System
Candace Sadorra
, Telehealth Clinic Manager,
UC Davis
Health System
The UC Davis Pediatric Tele-Emergency Network currently connects to
more than 25 hospital emergency departments, providing significant
benefits to pediatric patients receiving care in rural and under-served
hospitals. The Tele-Nursery Network connects to 10 labor and delivery
and newborn nurseries so that a neonatologist can be virtually present at
the bedside of any infant in need of neonatal expertise. In this workshop,
our experienced leaders will explain the importance of strategic outreach
objectives when developing a sustainable telemedicine program and the
importance of focusing on meeting community needs. We will explore
strategies on how to develop a telemedicine program and discuss how to
adapt lessons learned to participants’ own communities and populations.
3:00 pm – 3:15 pm
Refreshment Break with Exhibitors
3:15 pm – 4:15 pm
International Telehealth Panel
This engaging session will summarize the use of telehealth applications
from an International perspective and discuss how telehealth is being
used to help fight disease outbreaks as well as meet ongoing healthcare
needs in rural and remote regions from California to Sub-Saharan Africa.
5:00 pm – 8:00 pm
Excellence in Telehealth Awards Reception Luau
Sponsored by Spectrum Business
Aloha! Wear a bright shirt, a grass skirt or lei, we’re going to celebrate
the tropical way! You are cordially invited to a luau beach reception to
celebrate our telehealth champions. Themed attire is encouraged.
Tuesday, April 19, 2016
8:00 am – 9:00 am
Continental breakfast available in exhibit hall
Sponsored by California HealthCare Foundation and
Time Warner Cable Business Class
8:30 am – 9:45 am
Panel Discussion –
Telehealth: The National Perspective
This panel will discuss telehealth views and perspectives from around the
Nation.
9:45 am – 10:30 am
General Session –
Health Equity GPS: Mapping a Path to Reach
Equal Health Opportunity for Everyone
Carmela Castellano-Garcia, Esq.
, President and Chief
Executive Officer, California Primary Care Association
Rodney Hood, M.D.
, Cofounder, Multicultural Primary Care
Medical Group, Former President, National Medical
Association
B. Darcel Lee
, President and Chief Executive Officer,
California Black Health Network
Jahmal Miller
, MHA, Deputy Director, California
Department of Public Health, Office of Health Equity
This panel will explore the necessity of achieving health equity, and the
steps it will take to get there. Topics of discussion will include care,
coverage, the environment, and the role we can all play in achieving
equity.
10:30 am – 10:45 am
Refreshment Break with Exhibitors
10:45 am – 11:45 am
Breakout Sessions (5 concurrent sessions)
1.
Telemedicine Compliance: How to Maximize ROI and Patient
Care While Minimizing Legal Risks
Tara Kepler, JD, MPA
, Principal, Kepler Health Law
Mei Wa Kwong, JD
, Senior Policy Associate & Project
Director, Center for Connected Health Policy
This presentation will discuss the recent uptick in medical board, FDA, FTC, Medicare and DEA investigations of telemedicine businesses. It will address credentialing/licensing, prescribing and best practices for avoiding government investigations while also highlighting the reimbursement and funding models that have proven most successful for maximizing ROI and the patient experience.
2.
Telemedicine in Indian Country – The Future is up to You!
Karen Davis, M.D.
, Clinical Consultant, Riverside San
Bernardino County Indian Health, Inc.
Thomas Kim, M.
D.
, California Rural Indian Health Board,
Medical Director
Steven Viramontes, PHN
, Clinical Applications,
Telemedicine & eHealth Coordinator, California Area Indian
Health Service
Telemedicine services in the California Area Indian Health Service have been available since 2001 and yet only a handful of clinics take advantage of the special care such as, endocrinology, nutrition, and psychiatry. You are invited to attend and learn about the support that is out there for Indian Health Clinics and find out if telemedicine specialty care is a good fit for your clinic practice.
3.
Recovery Support Technologies: Pioneering New Models of
Substance Abuse Recovery Services
Nancy Roget
,
Principal Investigator, Project Director
National Frontier & Rural Addiction Technology Transfer
Center (NFAR ATTC), University of Nevada, Reno
Kurt Snyder, MMGT, LSW, LAC
, Executive Director,
Heartview Foundation, Bismarck, ND
Erin Winstanley, PhD
, Assistant Professor, Health
Outcomes, James L. Winkle College of Pharmacy, University
of Cincinnati; Director of Health Services, Mercy Health
This presentation will identify some of the barriers to accessing recovery support services, discuss why mobile technology and the internet play a role in reducing the barriers, review the research on the benefits of using technology for recovery support, and showcase several types of technology that can be used to help deliver recovery support services, improve disease management, and compliment behavioral health treatment services.
4.
Tele-ICU from Coast to Coast: Leveraging Tele-ICU for your
Healthcare System and Beyond
Jason Close, R.R.T.
, Program Manager, Dignity Health
Telemedicine Network
Peter A. Pappas, M.D., F.A.C.S.
, Lead Physician, Health First
Trauma Telemedicine
Denise Pimintel, RN, MN, MS, CCRN
, RN Coordinator,
Dignity Health Telemedicine Network
Luann Tirelli, RN
, Program Manager, Health First
Telemedicine Health First Inc.
Our system of healthcare delivery is in the midst of rapid and revolutionary change. From coast to coast, Telemedicine and Tele-ICU care are at the vanguard of those changes. This workshop will bring together leaders in ICU and Tele-Health innovation to share their successes, challenges and lessons learned in creating, expanding and diversifying Tele-ICU care.
5.
Transitioning Into the Medical Home – Key Components
Dew-Anne Langcaon
, CEO, iHealthHome, LLC
Christopher Rosato
, Telehealth and Business Analyst,
Fonemed
Anna M. Seroka, RN
, Senior Vice President, Client Solutions,
Fonemed
This workshop will explore how telehealth technology and other virtual care services are playing an increasingly critical role for healthcare organizations such as ACOs, Hospitals and Home Health Agencies and discuss the unique opportunities and challenges that telehealth poses by evaluating the various constraints and incentives of each stakeholder group to introduce telehealth technologies and virtual care services into their practice. Expect to gain insights into how telehealth contributes to improvements in care coordination, strengthens communications amongst providers, reduces hospital readmissions, bolsters patient engagement and leads to heathier outcomes for patients.
12:00 pm – 1:00 pm
Closing Session and Luncheon
Sponsored by TeleMed2U
Safety Net Healthcare Provider Roundtable: Piecing Together the
Healthcare Access Puzzle
Hear from those who provide care for the most vulnerable populations
including challenges and successes.
1:00 pm – 1:15 pm
Prize Drawings and Final Remarks
Twitter contest drawing
Closing session drawing