ON-DEMAND PRESENTATIONS & WORKSHOPS

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FESTIV7

DAY 1

JULY 26TH, 2021

PANEL DISCUSSION: EXPANDING TELEHEALTH TO SUPPORT POST-ACUTE CARE (1H)
Many organizations have implemented telehealth in the ambulatory setting. This session will discuss how organizations expanded their telehealth program into the post-acute care continuum.

Session Objectives:

  • Learn about the 2021 Digital Health trends top of mind for CIOs
  • Understand access barriers and approaches to resolve the barriers
  • Discuss strategies to engage consumers in healthcare
  • Review how patients and providers benefit from post-acute telehealth programs
  • Hear the story of a successful post-acute care program using remote patient monitoring technology

Speakers:
Kari Gali, Director – Huron Consulting Group
Cheryl Adams, Director of Home Health – Sparta Community Hospital

UNDERSTANDING AND MEETING THE EVOLVING EXPECTATIONS OF PATIENTS (40MIN)
Speakers:

Christian Milaster, Founder & CEO – Ingenium Digital Health Advisors

Nadhi Shah, Owner – Your Movement Specialist, LLC

David Levine, MD MPH MA, General Internist and Clinician-investigator – Brigham Health and Harvard Medical School

Matt Shafer, Market Director – Telehealth, CHI Memorial

GROWING THE MATURITY OF VIRTUAL CARE PROGRAMS (40MIN)

Speakers:

Christian Milaster, Founder & CEO – Ingenium Digital Health Advisors

Gerard Frunzi, Director (Virtual Care) – Centura Health

Hoy Garvin, Executive Director of Network Telehealth – Community Health Network

Asha Tiwary, National Director, Innovation and Digital Health Programs, Strategy and Operations – Trinity Health

Matt Shafer, Market Director – Telehealth, CHI Memorial

TEXAS HEALTH JOURNEY WITH TELEHEALTH (30MIN)

  • Impact of spiritual rounding during COVID-19 specifically during end-of-life
  • Virtualizing nurse and physician rounding in hospitals
  • Virtual Primary Care

Speaker:

Peter Kim, MS-HCM, LSSBB, Telemedicine Product Strategist – Texas Health Resources

DAY 2
JULY 27TH, 2021

PANEL DISCUSSION:BEST PRACTICES IN OPTIMIZING TELEHEALTH (45MIN)

Speakers:

Rachel Schapiro, Director of Product Marketing – vcita

Gerard Frunzi, Director (Virtual Care) – Centura Health

Peter Kim, MS-HCM, LSSBB, Telemedicine Product Strategist – Texas Health Resources

Sarah Purdy, Physician Assistant

PANEL DISCUSSION: DRIVING TELEHEALTH ADOPTION THROUGH ACCESS AND INNOVATION (45MIN)

If telehealth is going to have long-term success in the American health care system, it will be because payers are driving this important care modality, and working with patients and providers to expand utilization in this new hybrid health care world.

While the government struggles to determine how to fully embrace telehealth, health plans have been on the front lines, taking diverse and creative approaches to use the modality to deliver care.

Speakers:
Dr Connie Hwang, Chief Medical Officer and Director of Clinical Innovation – Alliance of Community Health Plans (ACHP)
Kyla King, Marketing Director – Priority Health

Ian Tong, MD, Chief Medical Officer – Doctor On Demand and Grand Rounds Health organization

Craig A. Wargon, DPM, Practicing Foot and Ankle Surgeon – Kaiser Permanente

BUILDING THE DIGITAL FUTURE OF GENETIC SERVICE: TELEGENETICS, ECONSULTS AND CHATBOTS (30MIN)

  • There is an increasing demand for genetic and genomic services
  • Most physicians do not know much about genetics. while the medical genetics workforce is small – approximately 5,000 Genetic Counselors and 1,600 MD Geneticists, and it is not uniformly geographically distributed
  • Telemedicine for genetics (“Telegenetics”) overcomes geographical boundaries and allow greater access for patients
  • Genetics eConsults allow non-genetic physicians to get advice from geneticists quickly
  • Chatbots can provide pre-test education and risk stratification, allowing Genetic Counselors to practice higher on their license

Speaker:

David Flannery, MD, Director of Telegenetics and Digital Genetics – Center for Personalized Genetic Healthcare, Cleveland Clinic

POST-PANDEMIC FUTURE OF TELEHEALTH (30MIN)

  • Provide an overview and high-level workflow for healthcare system’s telehealth program
  • Build and grow successful telehealth program
  • Evaluate value proposition for several telehealth programs
  • Shift to hybrid healthcare

Speaker:

Kadambari Beelwar, Telehealth/DH Technologies/Unified Communications – Stanford Children’s Health

ACCELERATING THE ADOPTION OF DIGITAL HEALTH INNOVATION (30MIN)

  • The problem with Digital Health today is not the lack of innovation.
  • The problem is the slow speed of innovation adoption.
  • Over $50B has been invested in Digital Health Innovation over the last decade. Yet it takes physicians on average 17 years to adopt treatment innovation.
  • Most healthcare organizations are not moving fast enough to take advantage of the validated digital health innovation available today. Other players such as Amazon Care and Walmart Health are moving fast and will be a competitive threat to the health systems and hospital systems we know.

Speaker:
Christian Milaster, Founder & CEO – Ingenium Digital Health Advisors

THE IMPORTANCE OF EARLY DETECTION OF COVID 19

  • Teletriaging and teletreating of mild to moderate patients
  • How early detection could be a lifesaver in Covid 19
  • The basic outline of the pathology in Covid 19
  • How a clinical triaging is done

Speaker:
Dr. Haleema Yezdani, General Physician

DAY 3
JULY 28TH, 2021

SCALING TELEHEALTH USING ALICANTO TO IMPROVE CANCER CARE IN LEARNING HEALTH SYSTEMS (1H)

This session will describe approaches to improving cancer care across a large multi-institution health care network using Alicanto to support an online community of healthcare professionals. Communities of practice aim to improve health care delivery by sharing training and learning, standardizing care guidelines, and coordinating care. We will discuss using the Alicanto platform at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, a Harvard-affiliated hospital for education and virtual tumor boards. We will discuss with lessons learned for best practices in deployment and future of learning health networks.

Session Objectives:

  • To understand the goals of a learning health network (LHN)
  • Review implementations of the Alicanto LHN and the facilitators and barriers.
  • Discuss the future of online learning health networks.

Speakers:
Yuri Quintana, PhD, Chief, Division of Clinical Informatics – Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Assistant Professor of Medicine – Harvard Medical School

David Einstein, MD, Genitourinary Oncology Program, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Assistant Professor of Medicine – Harvard Medical School

SPECIAL TELEHEALTH CONSIDERATIONS FOR OLDER ADULTS (30MIN)

  • Many older adults have complex care needs and mobility or transportation challenges that make telehealth an especially welcome option.
  • Sensory and cognitive challenges may require the use of additional devices, resources, and strategies to fully engage older adults in telehealth.
  • Older adults are not “tech natives” and many require additional assistance to engage in telehealth.
  • Failure to address the technology and telehealth needs of older adults may further increase the digital divide and result in reduced access for one of our most vulnerable populations.

Speaker:

Lauren Moo, MD, Physician Scientist – U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, Neurologist – Harvard Medical School

TELEHEALTH AND SPACE MEDICINE: OUT OF THIS WORLD APPLICATIONS FOR LIFE ON EARTH (30MIN)

  • How NASA has impacted the medical care on Earth.
  • Telehealth applications to provide medical care to populations in extreme environments and pandemics.
  • Maximizing the performance of the human doctor with digital tools.

Speaker:

Dr. Ekaterina Kostioukhina, MD, Telehealth / Telemedicine Physician – Harvard University

SPECIALTY CARE IN THE AGE OF TELEHEALTH (30MIN)

  • Specialties and telehealth, past, present, and future
  • Opportunities for value-based care models
  • Challenges and future direction

Speaker:

Samy Sidhom, MD, MPH-HPM, Chief of Pulmonary Medicine and Associate Chair of Specialties – Atrius Health

REMOTE PATIENT MONITORING: HOW TO MONITOR, MANAGE & IMPROVE PATIENT CARE WHILE GETTING PAID

  • Discover Best Practices for remote patient monitoring (RPM)
  • Learn how RPM has rapidly evolved, from pre-COVID to now, and what to expect in the future
  • Hear how payers are supporting RPM & how much reimbursement revenue you can expect as an RPM provider
  • Learn how to implement RPM in your own organization
  • Hear patient stats on RPM & schedule a Q&A with an RPM expert to learn more

Speaker:
Shari Kappell, Implementation and Billing Manager – Coachcare

FESTIV8

DAY 1
FEB 22ND, 2021

SCHOOL-BASED TELEHEALTH OVERVIEW (30MIN)

  • Provide an overview and high-level workflow of a school-based telehealth program
  • Describe program outcomes
  • Share best practices and lessons learned from implementing a school-based telehealth program

Speaker:
Elana Wells, School-Based Health Manager, Center for Telehealth – Medical University of South Carolina

TELEHEALTH THROUGH SCHOOL PARTNERSHIPS (30MIN)

  • Making a scholastic impact

– Will discuss missional impact – reducing student absenteeism due to illness
-Will cover the operational flow of the partnership
-Will display outcomes and data

  • Caring for Educators and families

-Will discuss the demand from teachers and school employees to use the services

  • A larger communal impact

-Operating a virtual community clinic on school grounds

Speaker:
Hoy Garvin, Executive Director of Network Telehealth – Community Health Network

A PHYSIOTHERAPIST’S GUIDE TO PEDIATRIC TELEHEALTH (30MIN)

  • Increase client attention span through collaborative storytelling and visual media
  • Improve patient outcomes using digitally administered incentives each session
  • Maintain a structured remote environment by empowering parents to support vital logistics

Speaker:
Lauren Haegele, Doctor of Physical Therapy

PANEL DISCUSSION: DEVELOPING AND IMPLEMENTING REMOTE PATIENT MONITORING (1H)

  • Why did CMS introduce RPM services and do you expect them to expand support for them in the future?
  • Who can prescribe RPM and who can deliver it?
  • How long does it take to implement RPM?
  • What patients are eligible for RPM?

Speakers:
Wesley Haydon, President & Co-Founder – CoachCare

Susanne Talebian, Co-Founder – Healthcare Business Solutions, Ltd.

Carrie Nixon, Esq., Co-Founder and Managing Partner – Nixon Gwilt Law

Sandra Weitz MD., Physician and Founder – The Practice Building MD

DAY 2
FEB 23RD, 2021

TELEDENTISTRY AS A TELEHEALTH SUB-SPECIALTY (30MIN)

  • How teledentistry is delivered in a virtual setting
  • The impact of Covid-19 on dentistry and teledentistry
  • Projection of how teledentistry will evolve going forward

Speakers:
Dr. Maria Kunstadter, Co-Founder – The Teledentists
Howard Reis, CEO – The Teledentists

PANDEMIC PROOF: HOW TO IMPLEMENT INTERPRETATION, TRANSLATION AND LOCALIZATION THAT SCALES (1H)

Moderator:
Abigail Katz, Director of Health Outcomes Solutions – United Language Group

Speakers:
Evelyn Toro, VP Translation Operations – United Language Group
Danielle Meder, Sr. Director of Quality – Interpretation – United Language Group

A BIOPSYCHOSOCIAL APPROACH TO A TELEHEALTH VISIT (30MIN)

  • Building a therapeutic alliance through motivational interviewing
  • Recognition of the dominant pain mechanism to help develop an appropriate plan of care
  • Addressing psychosocial risk factors and patient-perceived outcomes

Speaker:
Neetu Trivedi, Regional Manager of Work Strategies – Select Medical

DAY 3
FEB 24TH, 2021

FUTURE INNOVATION IN TELEHEALTH (40MIN)

  • Innovation Types (The 4P’s)

-Product Innovation

-Process Innovation

-Position Innovation

-Paradigm Innovation

  • Obstacles and Challenges In Healthcare Innovation
  • Key Factors for increasing innovation effectiveness

Moderator:
Christian Milaster, Founder & President – Ingenium Telehealth

Speakers:
Dr. Dina Ziadlou, Chair of Digital Transformation Leadership – International Society for Telemedicine and e-Health

Lídia Maria Lourençön Rodrigues, Scientific Researcher of Health Technologies – University of São Paulo

Sareer Zia MD, CEO and Founder – Virtual Hospitalist

Andrew Smith, Co-Founder and Chief Commercial Officer – Digital Healthcare Solutions

0-60 IN 30 – THE RAPID DEPLOYMENT OF VIRTUAL HEALTH IN THE AMBULATORY AND HOSPITAL BEDSIDE SETTINGS (40MIN)

Speakers:
Victoria Rodino, MA, Ph.D, Director of Telehealth Operations – Network Delivery and Innovation – Children’s Health
Kristy Carlton, Director, Telemedicine Clinical Outreach – Children’s Health
Carlie Cohen, Senior Director, Ambulatory Services – Children’s Health
Dr. Maeve Sheehan, Cardiac Intensivist – UTSW

A QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS OF MARYLAND PRIMARY CARE PROGRAM (MDPCP) PRACTICES’ EXPERIENCE WITH TELEHEALTH SERVICES (40MIN)

  • The Maryland Primary Care Program (MDPCP) preps primary care practices for telehealth as a care transformation requirement
  • This presentation will provide the viewpoints of providers and healthcare staff to understand the barriers, challenges, and experiences with implementing telehealth at their primary care practices

Speakers:
Raghavi Anand, Healthcare Transformation Intern – Maryland Department of Health
Emily Gruber, Project Lead – Maryland Department of Health

DAY 4
FEB 25TH, 2021

THE FUTURE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN TELEHEALTH AND IN-PERSON CARE (40MIN)

Moderator:
Paula Muto MD, Founder/CEO – UBERDOC

Speakers:
Kadambari Beelwar, Telehealth and Unified Communications – Stanford Children’s Hospital
Swati Mehta MD, Director of Quality & Patient Experience – Vituity
Matt Shafer, Market Director of Telehealth – CHI Memorial
Dr Ruth Large, CD Information Services & Virtual Healthcare – Waikato District Health Board

EXPANDING YOUR DATACENTRIC TELEHEALTH ENVIRONMENT: WHAT REPORTS AND METRICS DO YOU NEED? (40 MIN)

Moderator:
Kamalina Czerniak, Sr Manager Product Marketing – Vyopta

Speakers:
Kadambari Beelwar, Telehealth and Unified Communications – Stanford Children’s Hospital
Kimberlee Emfield Rowett, Oncology Telehealth Nurse Navigator – Intermountain Healthcare

TRAINING MEDICAL TEAMS HOW BEST TO USE TELEMEDICINE (40MIN)

Speaker:

Pr. W Angus Wallace, Professor of Orthopaedic & Accident Surgery – University of Health Sciences

DEPLOYING AND EVALUATING TELEHEALTH PROGRAMS FOR PATIENTS AT HOME: THE BIDMC INFOSAGE AND VA PROJECTS (40MIN)

Yuri Quintana, PhD, Chief, Division of Clinical Informatics – Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and Assistant Professor of Medicine – Harvard Medical School

Mitchell Izower, MD, Instructor – Harvard Medical School and HospitalistBeth Israel Deaconess

Zoe Liao, Research Assistant – Division of Clinical Informatics – Beth Israel Lahey Health

DAY 5
FEB 26TH, 2021

TRIAGE IN THE TELEHEALTH ERA (1H)

  • POCUS Education
  • Movement from in-person, hands-on sessions to live virtual scanning
  • Transition of educator techniques from hands-on to verbal skills
  • Impact on healthcare costs and patient care
  • Live Demonstration

Speaker:
Malka Stromer, Director of Continuing Medical Education – WCUI

TELEMENTAL HEALTH PROVISION (40MIN)

  • Practice and clinical issues
  • Documentation
  • Clinical and therapeutic modalities
  • Attitudinal barriers
  • Ethical and legal issues of telemental health

Speakers:
Craig DeLarge, Founder – The Digital Mental Health Project
Corrie Avila, Owner – Avila Counseling and Telehealth

USING TELEHEALTH TO STREAMLINE CLINICAL WORKFLOWS (40MIN)

COVID-19 changed telehealth forever, both in terms of expectations from patients, and the needs of hospitals and health systems. The necessity for easy to join video visits regardless of the device or location grew exponentially overnight – in some cases as much as 1600%. With roughly 30% of patient interactions expected to be virtual by 2022, a simple and secure connectivity experience integrated into clinical workflows is crucial for both the patient and provider. Looking back on the past year, what lessons did we learn and how are we adapting our long-term telehealth strategy for the future?

Moderator:

Angie Stevens, Founder, Virtual Insights, LLC

Speakers:

Jordan Owens, VP of Architecture – Pexip

Leonie Heyworth, MD, MPH, Director of Synchronous Telehealth – Office of Connected Care/Telehealth

Dennis V. Truong, MD, MBA, Regional Telemedicine/Mobility Director, Northern Virginia Assistant Physician-In-Chief – Mid-Atlantic Permanente Medical Group, (Kaiser Permanente)

Gerard Frunzi, Director Telehealth/Virtual Care – Centura Health

Kadambari Beelwar, Sr Telehealth/UC Manager – Stanford Children’s Health

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