3rd Annual Missouri Telehealth Summit

Rachel Mutrux, Director

Missouri Telehealth NetworkUniversity of Missouri- School of Medicine

Started in 1994

Missouri Telehealth Network exists to develop, study, and use telehealth solutions that improve access by providing high-value, patient-centered health care and medical education in Missouri and beyond.

We educate and train people interested in starting their own telehealth program.

We hold training conferences and meetings.

We have technical, clinical, operational, legal & regulatory expertise in telehealth.

We have state funding, grant funding, and membership funding.

KANSAS - MISSOURI - OKLAHOMAWebsite: Heartlandtrc.org Phone: 877.643.HTRC

HRSA funded Regional Telehealth Resource Centers

Karen Edison, Medical Director

Mirna Becevic, Researcher

Michael Oyewole, Technology

Wendy Hough, Administrative

Misty Jordan, Telehealth

Coordinator

Dawn Bax, Business

Administration

Candy Garb, Telehealth

Coordinator

Deepika Gupta, Graduate Research

Asst

Mary Beth Schneider, Education Specialist

Lindsey Beckmann, Replication Coordinator

Danny Myers, Assoc Dir-

Operations

Gwen Ratermann, Outreach

Coordinator

Rachel Mutrux, Director

Telehealth is a mode of delivering health care services to facilitation diagnosis, consultation, treatment, education, care management and self-management of patient’s health care when patient is separated from provider by distance.

Telehealth / telemedicine is a tool in medical practice, not a separate form of medicine.

The standard of care is the same whether patient is seen in-person or through telehealth.

Well

Preventative Care

Health Education

Coaching

Acute Care /Ambulatory

Primary Care

eVisits

High-Risk OB

Store-&-Forward

Chronic Disease

Specialty Consults

(Behavioral health,

endocrinology)

Remote Home monitoring

(CHF)

Critical Care Care

TeleICU

in-Patient Consultations

Emergency

Trauma

Stroke

Burn

Because clinical shortages & clinician maldistribution.

To increase access to high quality healthcare.

To decrease travel, cost, & hardship.

Because delayed treatment costs lives & $$.

To provide clinical education & training.

To provide economic development- keeping health dollars local.

Provider buy-in and provider dependence!

Additional personnel resources and training are required at both hub and spoke sites

Costs- equipment & broadband

Documentation and paper work flow disruption

Reimbursement

Credentialing/ Licensure

Quickly changing environment

Education- awareness

ECHO is

Extension for Community Healthcare Outcomes

Telementoring project that creates communities of learning.

Project ECHO’s mission is to democratize medical knowledge and get best practice care to underserved people all over the world.

Time

Increasing Gap

“Expanding the Definition of Underserved Population”

Project ECHO

Technology

Primary Care

Providers

Expert Teams

PCPs care for own patients with chronic conditions

Communities have capacity to care for

citizens

Specialists share knowledge, partner and

mentor community PCPs

ECHO Schedule

Thank you!Questions?

Contact information:E. Rachel Mutrux

Sr. Program Director, Missouri Telehealth NetworkDirector, Show-Me ECHO

State Director, Heartland Telehealth Resource CenterPh: 573-884-8814

Email: mutruxe@health.Missouri.eduWeb: showmeecho.com

Web: http://medicine.missouri.edu/telehealth/