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GMCE:. Consultation service update. Mark S. Korson , MD. Consultation & Clinical Support Service. Provider to provider assistance Telehealth service: Email Phone Videoconferencing. GMCE and NEGC. Grant support to provide clinics a trial opportunity: 4 month beta-testing period
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GMCE: Consultation service update Mark S. Korson, MD
Consultation & Clinical Support Service • Provider to provider assistance • Telehealth service: • Email • Phone • Videoconferencing
GMCE and NEGC • Grant support to provide clinics a trial opportunity: • 4 month beta-testing period • Up to 45 free hours • Discount on a future contract • Free seats at upcoming conferences
High activation energy From Heartland Genetics & Newborn Screening Collaborative, Telemedicine Manual
GMCE Contracts, New England • University of Vermont Medical Center, underway • Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center (NH), pending • Rhode Island/Hasbro Children’s Hospital, under planning • University of Connecticut/Connecticut Children’s Hospital, under planning
GMCE Contracts, beyond New England • Large pediatric practice, rural Pennsylvania, 2 hours from Philadelphia 4 hours from Pittsburgh… underway
INTERSTATE MEDICAL LICENSURE COMPACT Legislative Status, 2015
Reasons for contracts • Consultation and clinical support • Metabolic coverage during vacation • Metabolic coverage while waiting to hire a metabolic physician
Summary, GMCE consultation activity • Consultations • New England – 29 • Other US - 1 • International – 5 (Georgia, Jordan) • Nature of consultations • Diagnosis - 10 • Management – 16 • Diagnosis and management - 8 • Counseling - 1
GMCE & priorities at NCC meeting • Promote and expand teleheath genetic services • Increase access for specialists to genetic consultation • Increase education for non-geneticists about genetic disease
Moving forward • Gain experience about telemetabolics in New England • Outreach: • Mountain State Genetics Collaborative (April) • Heartland Genetics Collaborative (May)
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