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Title: Connected Health: Opportunities Ahead for Primary Care Joseph L. Ternullo, JD, MPH Associate Director, Partners Center for Connected Health Associate Director, Northeast Telehealth Resource Center Vice President, Continua Health Alliance Adjunct


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Connected Health Opportunities Ahead for
Primary CareJoseph L. Ternullo, JD,
MPHAssociate Director, Partners Center for
Connected HealthAssociate Director, Northeast
Telehealth Resource CenterVice President,
Continua Health AllianceAdjunct Faculty,
Northeastern University
4th Annual Weitzman Symposium
5/18/2014
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Challenges
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Healthcare Challenges
  • Aging population will become increase utilization
    burden on healthcare system
  • Increased need to maintain independent living for
    the elderly
  • Primary care and other healthcare workforce
    shortages
  • Mismatch between financial resources available to
    deliver care and demand for that care
  • Patterns of disease changing- moved into a period
    of an epidemic of chronic disease
  • Aggregation of specialists in urban networks
    while care delivered in local community and
    primary care settings
  • Patients well informed and demand convenient
    care and equal access to high quality
    best-practice care where the live and work

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Organizations
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The Continua Health Alliance
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Continua Overview
  • Worldwide industry alliance formed in June 2006
    by Cisco, Intel, Kaiser, Medtronic, Motorola,
    Panasonic, Partners, Philips, Samsung, Sharp,
    and Welch Allyn.
  • Today, Continua is 191 organizations strong and
    growing. It is dedicated to making personal
    telehealth a reality by
  • Developing design guidelines enabling vendors to
    build interoperable sensors, home networks,
    telehealth platforms, and health and wellness
    services.
  • Establishing a product certification program with
    a consumer-recognizable logo signifying the
    promise of interoperability across certified
    products.
  • Collaborating with government regulatory agencies
    to provide methods for safe and effective
    management of vendor solutions.
  • Working with leaders in the health care
    industries to develop new ways to address the
    costs of providing personal telehealth systems

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Northeastern University
  • Northeastern is a large Boston-based institution
    of higher learning. Its leadership assessed the
    need for new educational programs.
  • Feedback
  • Unprecedented demand for systematic improvement
    in healthcare quality and efficiency across all
    settings (ambulatory to inpatient).
  • Requests from external agencies for measurement
    and reporting of healthcare performance is at a
    height and increasing.
  • Hospitals and clinics are significantly
    increasing their investment in (a) computerized
    physician order entry, (b) inpatient and
    ambulatory electronic medical records, (c)
    E-prescribing platforms, (d) personal health web
    sites, (e) enterprise data warehousing for
    enhanced reporting and analytics, (f) remote
    patient monitoring devices.
  • New interdisciplinary programs are needed.
  • NEU Masters in HealthCare informatics launched.
    Will be online within 12 months.
    www.healthinformatics.neu.edu

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Use Cases
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Continua Use Cases
  • To organize its work, Continua segmented the
    market in three large use cases
  • Aging Independently
  • An adult child helping their elderly parents age
    gracefully in their own home.
  • Basic life monitoring as appropriate (ADL)
  • Disease Management
  • Vital sign monitoring (RPM)
  • Medication reminders and compliance
  • Trend analysis and alerts
  • Connect with family care givers
  • Health Wellness
  • Weight loss
  • Fitness
  • Email / chat / video
  • Appt scheduling
  • Personal Health Records

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Continua Use Cases
  • Disease management market
  • evolve the current models of care chronic and
    post-acute
  • connect patients, families and healthcare
    providers to the right information at the right
    time
  • more informed decision-making
  • empowering people to take a more active role in
    their own care

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Continua Use Cases
  • Health and wellness market
  • health conscious and worried well
  • fitness and lifestyle trackers, PHRs

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Continua Use Cases
  • Aging independently market
  • residential care, independent living facilities,
    individual homes
  • support ADL, fall detectors, bed occupancy,
    medical reminders,
  • personal emergency response services

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Resources
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The Center for Connected Health
  • Division of Partners IS organization
  • Research and evaluation
  • Program development and rollout
  • Operational systems and support
  • Education and advisory services
  • Formalized relationships around the globe
  • Our interest is in the use of technology to
    deliver care remotely
  • Heart failure monitoring
  • Diabetic monitoring and coaching
  • Blood pressure self-management for large employer
  • Benefits include
  • Increased patient engagement
  • Improved health outcomes
  • Improved patient-provider communications
  • All leading to improved lives and lower costs

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Northeast Telehealth Resource Center
  • Federally Funded through the Office for the
    Advancement of Telehealth
  • www. Northeasttrc.org
  • Foster the development, expansion and
    sustainability of telehealth programs throughout
    the Northeast.
  • Develop and maintain an online database of the
    status of telehealth in the Northeast.
  • Identify opportunities to improve policies for
    greater access to care through telehealth.
  • Connect knowledgeable and experienced telehealth
    mentors with organizations that are building
    their telehealth capabilities.
  • Serve as a key resource for helping to catalyze
    the introduction of telehealth technologies into
    the care delivery process.

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Critical Questions
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Questions
  • How can we work together?
  • What unique attributes do we possess that can
    accelerate our success as a region?
  • How will the economic stimulus package funds
    alter the landscape here?
  • What efforts in the region are underway currently
    in the area of connected health, telehealth,
    remote monitoring, etc and are they catalogued?
  • When you think of Connected Health, Telemedicine,
    Telehealth, e-health, remote monitoring, etc. who
    in the region comes to mind as the local
    champion?
  • Can we stay in contact and find ways to organize
    and get involved to help shape policy rather than
    respond to policy shaped by others?
  • How do we best prepare for the future?

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Ways to Learn More
Attend the Partners 2009 annual Symposium on
October 21-22 in Boston
Join our discussion at www.connected-health.org
Recently published Home Telehealth
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Thank youJoseph L. Ternullo, JD,
MPHjternullo_at_partners.org617-726-4207
(office)
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