Connected Health Virtual Summit Sept 14-18 - free registration for nurses

Federally Qualified Health Centers (FQHCs) are entrusted with handling the healthcare needs of underserved populations across the country, and many have been using telehealth to improve access despite restrictive federal and state regulations. While the COVID-19 crisis has eased the rules on telehealth coverage, it’s also putting pressure on FQHCs to improve access to care for a growing population, especially as the economic downturn has pushed more people out of work and off insurance. This panel discussion focuses on how FQHCs have used telehealth to improve care, what they’re doing to expand their connected health platform, and how they’re planning for the future.

This panel will discuss:

• Understand what FQHCs can and can not do with telehealth, based on current state and federal regulations
• Learn from those in the trenches on how to make telehealth work, both in improving care and easing workloads for often-overworked staff
• How to research and develop sustainable and scalable connected health services in light of the changing regulatory and policy landscape

The need to build out a comprehensive virtual health environment has accelerated in today’s healthcare environment as organizations work to balance clinical and business agility requirements. The best practices that Sentara Healthcare deployed for their digital transformation enabled the organization to quickly transition to a virtual workforce when the need arose. Through strategic investments in essential infrastructure solutions, Sentara was able to advance secure clinical mobility to serve their patients without disruption under challenging circumstances.

Attend this session to learn: 

• The need for secure virtual care is quickly changing current healthcare operational models
• Advancements in Sentara’s data management capabilities coupled with remote care delivery technologies are enabling new virtual health workflows, including preventative care, virtual inpatient monitoring and remote chronic care management
• Sentara’s implementation of a mobile workforce using multi-cloud solutions has enabled clinical and business staff to work across different locations while keeping patient data secure

With schools either returning to in-person teaching or a hybrid in-person and virtual platform this fall, officials are looking to adapt school-based telehealth programs to meet new and emerging needs, such as behavioral health, chronic care management, substance abuse counseling and access to specialist services. This panel explores how the traditional school-based model of delivering primary and non-urgent care is evolving to address these new needs and improve student access to care and health.

This panel will discuss:

• How traditional school-based telehealth programs are evolving to meet new needs
• Examples of new services that can be delivered to students via telehealth
• A blueprint for designing an effective and nimble telehealth platform that addresses in-person and virtual care

During the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, health systems partnered with EMT and ambulance services to use telehealth and mHealth to triage 911 calls, reducing the strain on hospitals and working to push care into the home. Now these Mobile Integrated Health (MIH) and Community Paramedicine programs are being repurposed to address not only coronavirus cases, but population and community health concerns that will be there long after the pandemic.

This panel will discuss:

• Understand how home Mobile Integrated Health programs were designed and developed prior to the pandemic
• How these programs were developed into tele-triage services; and
• A blueprint for developing an MIH or Community Paramedicine program that addresses future community healthcare needs

Remote patient monitoring (RPM) has been proven to be a valuable asset and innovative application to Chronic Care Management (CCM). During this session, the speakers will discuss the use cases of RPM in CCM specifically, diving into how RPM can help enhance patient care, decrease costs, improve patient adherence, and increase communication between the provider and patient. They’ll share program examples from health systems across the country and will discuss both challenges and successes of these existing programs.

Key Takeaways:

• Understanding of the value of telehealth and RPM in CCM
• Knowledge on how to plan, launch and scale a CCM program
• Insight into reimbursement opportunities for telehealth and CCM