Dr. Ed Brown
The last session focuses on leveraging technology to empower wellness and is started by the keynote presenter Dr. Ed Brown, CEO, Ontario Telemedicine Network (OTN). He talks about Telemededicine in Ontario and its utilization. The first part portrays various innovations and drivers using telemedicine. The second point he mentions web casting over the web. The third point is “Store-Forward Telemedicine”. Brown explains with a picture taken of a rash at the Primary Care Physician, which will then be forwarded to the dermatologist using the a software by OTN. The fourth point is about Telehomecare for Chronic Disease Management, which monitors data at home to empower self-management and resulted in a 66% decrease in hospital admissions after the study was performed a couple years ago. The keynote ends with a graphical illustration of three pillars for Access, Quality and Efficiency showing value added by using Telemedicine.
David Levine
The second keynote presenter for the third session is David Levine, President, Montreal Health and Social Service Agency.
Levine starts off by explaining the Quebec and Montreal region. Then he explains the objectives that health reform needs to achieve:
- Improve the health and well being of the population
- Bring services to the population
- Facilitate the use of services
- Manage care for vulnerable clientele
- Introduce a population based managed care model
- Introduce a chronic care model
- Roster each citizen to a primary care team
- Develop corridors of care for seamless services
EMR Project
Levine shows a chart of barriers to adoption in Healthcare IT, illustrating key points in Technical, Financial, Educational and Policy. He explains further the EMR project showing prerequisites and goals.
He continues to explain the Montreal Project to implement EHR, states the critical success factors and summarizes his keynote with key messages.
Session III Panel
The third session panel is being moderated by Dr. Sal Volpe/TLC QIO and consists of the following people:
a.) Alex Nason/Johns Hopkins Medicine
b.) Brian Wells/University of Pennsylvania Health System
c.) Dr. Joseph Couto/Jefferson University Hospital
d.) Dr. Robyn Tamblyn/McGill University
The 2nd Annual Canada – U.S. eHealth Summit ends with great success. The presentations for all the keynote presenters and panelists will be available on http://www.paehi.org.
Editor’s note: This series of live blog posts on the 2nd Annual Canada-Philadelphia eHealth Summit were reported and photographed by Marvin Sugirin, solutions architect and my colleague, of BluePrint Healthcare IT. — Mike Squires
