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105. Telehealth and Technology
Using Telehealth to Improve Patient Outcomes: Connecting Our Elderly with Technology
Presenters will highlight how they used telehealth in various initiatives to empower patients to improve their outcomes. The session will include details on the establishment of a variety of telehealth programs and the impact that telehealth has had on our patient outcomes.
Objectives:
- Identify key factors in establishing a successful telehealth program.
- Describe how to incorporate telehealth into a Best Practice.
- Discuss barriers to the implementation of a telehealth program.
Faculty: Bridget Gallagher, RN, GNP, MSN, Senior Vice President of Community Services, The Jewish Home and Hospital Lifecare Services, New York, NY; Amy Zarrow, RN, BSN, Associate Director of Performance Improvement, The Jewish Home & Hospital LifeCare Services, New York, NY
Course Level: Intermediate; 1.8 nursing CEs (MNA Approval Pending); 1.0 CPEs (NASBA/SKA)
205. Telehealth and Technology
Electronic Discharge Planning - Using Web Based Applications to Increase Referrals
Learn how to utilize the Internet to provide an online home care referral process to your customers. Learn how to take your organization into the future with electronic discharge planning.
Objectives:
- Define Web Based Applications and their appropriate usage in home care discharge processes.
- Demonstrate the operational efficiencies achieved by leveraging technology.
- Review results of implementing electronic discharge planning.
Faculty: Debby Ramundo, RN, BSN, MSIT, Swedish Medical Center - Home Care Services, Seattle, WA
Course Level: Intermediate; 1.8 nursing CEs (MNA Approval Pending); 1.0 CPEs (NASBA/SKA)
305. Telehealth and Technology
Merging Technology: Integrating Information to Demonstrate Improved Patient Outcomes and Operating Efficiencies
Partnering to design a successful interface between telehealth, clinical, financial, and reporting systems, the presenters will discuss how the integration of information enables results analysis that is patient-specific, disease-specific and operations- specific.
Objectives:
- Describe the value of streamlining the collection of information to produce evidence of the value that technology offers.
- Demonstrate the value of a successful interface between technologies.
- Identify and report performance indicators that are patient-specific, disease specific, and operations-specific.
Faculty: Laurie Neander, RN, MS, CEO, At Home Care, Inc., Oneonta, NY; Kim Wipf, RN, BSN, CCRN, Solution Manager for Home Care, BeyondNow Technologies, Overland Park, KS; Michael Leminitzer, BS, CPA, Vice President-Business Development, ViTel Net, Inc., McLean, VA
Course Level: Novice–Intermediate; 1.8 nursing CEs (MNA Approval Pending); 1.0 CPEs (NASBA/SKA)
405. Telehealth and Technology
Keystone Telecare: Passive Monitoring, Medication Compliance and Vital Signs
Keystone found that its low cost and flexible combination of technologies has a potentially wide and significant application to create better avenues for care of the chronically ill and aging Medicare and Medicaid population. The speaker will present the model of care that is based on coordinated and proactive daily monitoring, education, guidance, and case management with the support of relevantly low cost technologies.
Objectives:
- Identify strategies for managing care with a systematic approach utilizing low cost integrated technologies.
- Discuss the cost of technology and the effect on cost of care.
- Describe through case study the efficacy of these technologies.
Faculty: Gail A. Inderwies, RN, BSN, MBA, Executive Director, Keystone Hospice, Wyndmoor, PA; Louise Taft, BA, Telehealth Coordinator, Keystone Hospice, Wyndmoor, PA
Course Level: Intermediate; 1.8 nursing CEs (MNA Approval Pending); 1.0 CPEs (NASBA/SKA)
504. Telehealth and Technology
Telehealth Home Health Success Story for CHF Patients
Learn step-by-step, where to begin, how to initiate, and what to expect when starting telehealth. In Centura's experience, hospital readmissions were reduced by 90%, ER visits by 100%, and by reducing the number of home care visits to the patients, the agency had a 50% reduction in staffing expenses.
Objectives:
- Demonstrate how to effectively manage a capitated managed Medicare population with CHF.
- Demonstrate Positive Clinical Outcomes through Telehealth.
- Discuss Strategic implications for generating revenue for Telehealth.
Faculty: Dianne Newberry, RN, BSN,MHA, Statewide Manager for Case Management, Centura Health At Home, Denver, CO; Melody Wright, RN, CCM, Director, Centura Health At Home, Denver, CO; Erin Denholm, RN, BSN, MSN, Senior Vice President, Centura Health At Home, Denver, CO
Course Level: Intermediate; 1.8 nursing CEs (MNA Approval Pending); 1.0 CPEs (NASBA/SKA)
604. Telehealth and Technology
Rehab and Technology - A Great Team for Home Care!
This program shows how the utilization of technology such as computerized documentation, computerized home exercise and education programs, and telehealth can improve the delivery of rehab services to home care patients. Therapists in the home care setting can take advantage of technology available to improve patient care, documentation, and reimbursement of services while obtaining data for research to document the effectiveness of therapy in the home.
Objectives:
- Describe how home care therapists can utilize computerized documentation to improve patient care and document outcomes.
- Demonstrate how a computerized home exercise program can improve patient care.
- Describe how telemedicine can be utilized to improve patient care and document outcomes.
- Discuss the use of "clinic" modalities in the home.
Faculty: Tonya Miller, MPT, Rehab Team Manager, Pinnacle Health Home Care, Harrisburg, PA; Jennifer Walsh, MPT, Physical Therapist, Pinnacle Health Home Care, Harrisburg, PA
Course Level: Intermediate; 1.8 nursing CEs (MNA Approval Pending); 1.0 CPEs (NASBA/SKA)
704. Telehealth and Technology
The Vision and Challenges of Standardizing and Sharing Information in an Integrated Health Care System
Most health care organizations are either planning for, or have already begun, an automation project that will provide standardized medical information across their health care delivery system. The variety of software products and technology available today are almost limitless and a great deal of time and energy go into selecting exactly the right products for your health care system. This program provides you with key success factors and gives you personal experiences from a health care system that is facing the challenges of integrating and sharing medical information.
Objectives:
- Identify three benefits of standardizing and sharing information in an integrated healthcare system.
- Discuss three challenges of standardizing and sharing information in an integrated healthcare system.
- Describe three positive outcomes of standardizing and sharing information in an integrated healthcare system.
Faculty: Mary Argo, BA, MPA, President/CEO, Universal Health Care Services, Atlanta, GA; Edward Molare, BA, Provena Home Care, Frankfort, IL; Paul Fabbi, MS, Director Information Technology, Provena Health Care, Frankfort, IL
Course Level: Intermediate; 1.8 nursing CEs (MNA Approval Pending); 1.0 CPEs (NASBA/SKA)
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