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
1Connected 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
2Challenges
3Healthcare 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
4Organizations
5The Continua Health Alliance
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6Continua 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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7Northeastern 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
8Use Cases
9Continua 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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10Continua 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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11Continua Use Cases
- Health and wellness market
- health conscious and worried well
- fitness and lifestyle trackers, PHRs
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12Continua 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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13Resources
14The 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
15Northeast 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.
16Critical Questions
17Questions
- 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?
18Ways 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
19Thank youJoseph L. Ternullo, JD,
MPHjternullo_at_partners.org617-726-4207
(office)