TeleHealth Presented by:

Denzann EllisAlbert Wyatt

Alexander AneMichael KanisJana Giordani

Ryan Tabb

Introduction to TeleHealth

What is TeleHealth?

What are the types of TeleHealth currently being practiced?

Adaptation of TeleHealth…

By: Denzann Ellis

History of TeleHealthDevelopmental

Telemedicine in the 1960’sNASA conducted first Telemedic experimentReaching rural areas that lack healthcare

facilities

Desire for DevicePaper records/Medical Charts

EMRs/PHRs/EHRsE-Health – meeting patient needs more efficientlyQuality care means that we are saving lives!

TeleHealth &The Healthcare System

By: Albert Wyatt

TeleHealth Implementation

Is there a need?Who will we serve?What services will we offer?Who will perform the services?What are the benefits?

Efficacy of TeleHealthIs there a benefit?

In wound care, TeleHealth saved elderly patients $650 a year in transportation alone

Patients have similar outcome scenariosIt allows for patients to have expert advice

without waitingSaves patients timeSaves providers time

Current ApplicationsUsed…

By: Alex Ane

Types of ApplicationsStore & ForwardReal-Time

TeleHealthRemote Patient

Monitoring

Fields of UseRadiologyTele-surgeryRemote Patient

Monitoring

The Prosvs.

The Cons

By: Michael Kanis

Pros (Economic) + Time saved by everybody + Store-and-Forward cheap and easy to access at an average cost of $0.016 per transaction

+ Face-to-Face consultation costs very little compared to an actual visit to the doctor, often only requiring internet access and a webcam ($50 + monthly fees)

+ Demand for hospital space will decline, driving down prices

+ 74% cost reduction in 2001 case study

Cons (Economic) - Time wasted acquiring out-of-state license

- Medicare restrictions - Time and Money spent on education ($50 per textbook, $1,000+ to hire a consultant, $100+ for tutorials and unrealistic initiative required of elders to learn about computers)

- Establishing protocol requires lobbying and compromises from vendors, Reducing incentive

Benefits & Costs

By: Jana Giordani

Benefits…A few benefits of TeleHealth

Tracked down the E.coli outbreakAllows dentists to use various videoconferencing systems

Skype and digital video camerasKeeps consultations running smoothly with the help of an

attending nurse Long term care allows patients to stay home in their own

comfort

• Disadvantages With TeleHealth being relatively new to the medical field:

teleheath has not progressed to the point where practitioners can be certain technological failure will not occur during a consultation

legal issues have yet to be resolved by legislature which presents road blocks in advancement

shared network use poses problems in security and privacy

Rising Costs…

The wound care facility purchased $5000 in videoconferencing equipment

This allowed for remote consultations between the patient, an onsite geriatric nurse practitioner and a wound care nurse practitioner

  After one year, the facility found that they had saved a total $13,650 in transportation costs alone

The wounds of all patients involved in the study healedThis gives us a good idea at how much money and

time can be saved if TeleHeath were implemented on a larger scale.

Savings…The average cost of a TeleHealth consultation

is $136.16This is in contrast with a cost of $246.28 and

an average patient time cost of 8.5 hours for a face to face visit

Yet, the patient spends roughly 20 minutes with the provider

TeleHealth patients saved $110.12 or 44.7% over face to face patients

Future ApplicationsHi There.

I’m Dr. Bot How can I help you today?

By: Ryan Tabb

Technological Development(OuterSpace & Other Countries)

Access to training and specialist surgeons for less developed countries

Possible to treat soldiers in the battlefieldSurgical procedures in space

Other Uses…Keep track of your heart beat on your phone

and upload it to Facebook/TwitterIf you drop dead, your friends and family will

be notified quicklyRobots to serve as companions and provide

services for those who are unable to do so themselves

Questions?

QUESTIONS?