Joseph C' Kvedar

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• Joseph C. Kvedar
• Director, Telemedicine
• Partners HealthCare Systems
• March 9, 2006

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Telemedicine hits the medical device industry!
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Agenda

• Who We Are Partners Telemedicine
• Connected Health Why it is an imperative
• Partnerships/Teamwork
• Lessons Learned

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Who We Are Partners Telemedicine

• Using consumer technologies and online resources
  to delivery quality care to patients outside the
  medical setting
• Helping to shape the future of healthcare by
  creating new ways to deliver care when and where
  it is needed
• Established in 1995, we are a division of
  Partners HealthCare with Harvard Medical
  School-affiliated teaching hospitals,
  Massachusetts General and Brigham and Womens
  Hospitals

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Who We Are Strategic Focus

• Services connecting patients and their physicians
  with specialists at Partners
• Remote Consultations online second opinions with
  leading specialists available via the Internet
• Distance Education Live, video-conference
  enabled physician-to-physician education

• Research and development
• initiatives to deliver care when and where it is
  needed
• Physiologic monitoring using sensors and
  consumer electronics to impact patient care and
  outcomes
• Connected communications facilitating improved,
  trusting communications between patients and
  providers
• Data solutions using patient data to drive
  treatment algorithms and protocols

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Agenda

• Who We Are Partners Telemedicine
• Connected Health Why it is an imperative
• Partnerships/Teamwork
• Lessons Learned

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Connected Health Why it is an Imperative
Growth in Chronic Disease
Supply and Demand Projections for Nurses 2000
to 2020
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Healthcare Today
Doctor-centric

• Scheduled visits
• Patient goes to the
• medical facility

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Connected Health
Patient-centric

• On-going care
• Care when and where it is needed
• Patient has access to their own health data

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Agenda

• Who We Are Partners Telemedicine
• Connected Health Why it is an imperative
• Partnerships/Teamwork
• Lessons Learned

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How We Work Partners
Provider organizations
Technology partners
Massachusetts General Hospital Brigham and
Womens Hospital Partners HomeCare
CIMIT Motorola RelayHealth VitelNet MIT
Payers
BCBSMA Large Employers Benefits Management Cos
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How We Work Engaging Consumers
Facilitating trusting, caring communications
between patients and providers
Connected Communications
Using sensors and consumer technologies to
provide continuous care
Using patient data to drive treatment algorithms,
protocols, and user-friendly interfaces
Patient
Data Solutions
Physiologic Monitoring
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How We Work From RD to Operations

• Pilot
• Proof-of-concept
• Useability
• Needs assessment

• Clinical Trial
• Technology and process research
• Evaluate value

• Operational Service
• Permanent resources in place
• Ongoing evaluation

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A Success Case Heart Failure Monitoring
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Agenda

• Who We Are Partners Telemedicine
• Connected Health Why it is an imperative
• Partnerships/Teamwork
• Lessons Learned

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Lessons Learned

• Accuracy How accurate does the technology need
  to be?
• Regulatory issues scare people away
• Physicians are capricious customers
• The mobile phone industry is challenging as a
  health care technology
• Network reliability is a major obstacle

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Join the Discussionhttp//www.connected-health.o
rg
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Thank You

• Jkvedar_at_partners.org