The Current Status of the Telehealth Industry

1. The Current Status of the Telehealth Industry

2. Telehealth • Pace University Graduate Center Team 5 • Members • Lisa Drury • Yudelka Otero • Jamel Stringer • Christina Timoni • Anthony Visciglia • Customers • Bryan Ennis • Stephanie Feddock

3. What is Telehealth? • Telehealth is defined as the use of digital technologies to deliver medical care, health education, and public health services by connecting multiple users in separate locations. • Our telehealth definition includes a broad range of technology-enabled health care services including telemedicine, which is the diagnosis and treatment of illness or injury.

4. What are Telehealth Services? • Telehealth services consist of: • Diagnosis • Treatment • Assessment • Monitoring • Communications • Education • The telecommunications services include: • High-Speed telecommunications • Health information sharing • Videoconferencing • Digital image transmission

5. How Does Telehealth Work? • Three methods of delivery • Video conferencing – used for real-time patient-provider consultations, provider-to-provider communications and for language translation services • Remote patient monitoring – using electronic devices to transmit patient health information to health care providers • Store & forward technology – electronically transmit videos & digital images (ie: X-rays) between primary care providers and medical specialists

6. Telehealth History • The pioneering effort in digital health data is the creation of electronic health records (EHR). • These systems have been in use since the 1960’s (almost 60 years!) • Began with physicians’ goal to find a convenient method to store and access health data. • EHR systems can contain collections of electronic health information about a patient or a population.

7. The Value of Telehealth • Raising expectations and awareness • Possibilities for future generations • Patients treated as customers • Compare services from various providers • Shop for a provider matching the requirements of the patient • Medical providers can bill for services delivered in unconventional methods but are driven by consumer/ patient needs

8. Telehealth Cloud: The Big Picture Figure 1: Telehealth Cloud

9. Telehealth Personal Tracking • We can track short team activities related to our health Figure 2: Fitbit Daily Tracker

10. Telehealth Personal Tracking • Convert short term data to long-term monitoring Figure 3: Fitbit long term tracker

11. Telehealth Personal Tracking • Create telehealth communities • Stay connected Figure 4: Fitbit Community & Notification

12. Telehealth Moving toward the Future • Evolving EHR platforms enable patients and providers to share information • Long term monitoring leads to trend analysis • Trending data leads to more effective patient diagnosis • Patients are customers with the ability to comparison shop • Their goal is to find a provider that matches their requirements • Healthcare providers have the ability to generate revenue for services rendered in nontraditional methods

13. The Current Status of the Telehealth Industry Questions…? Thank you for your time and allowing me to present to you today.