White Paper Available! Telehealth Solutions Enhance Health Outcomes and Reduce Healthcare Costs

White paper: Can we enhance health outcomes with telehealth?

There is intense pressure for the life sciences industry to demonstrate that treatments enhance health outcomes and decrease healthcare costs. Life science companies need tools to track patient outcomes, and gather data that demonstrates the impact a treatment has on health outcomes.

Telehealth solutions can be customized to gather patient vital signs and interview data based on the patient’s health condition. This information can be used in many ways to enhance health outcomes and reduce costs.

This white paper provides an overview of what telehealth is, factors driving the healthcare industry to focus on increasing outcomes and reducing costs, how telehealth solutions can enhance health outcomes and reduce costs, benefits life science companies can expect from telehealth solutions, as well as share results from two key studies of telehealth solutions.

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Telehealthcare Leaders Forum: Telehealthcare Business Models Panel

The inaugural Telehealthcare Leaders Forum includes a panel of experts that have successfully launched telehealthcare programs. Panelists will share insights on overcoming clinical, financial, and marketplace barriers to speed the adoption of telehealthcare solutions and technologies. Best practices for successfully implementing telehealthcare solutions will be shared.

On Wednesday, April 17, Andy Principe, President Starling Advisors, will moderate a panel comprised of...

Steve Guttormson directs marketing, public relations and business development activities for PioneerCare, a non-profit organization providing a diverse spectrum of services including 24-hour skilled nursing care, assisted living, memory care, adult day services, and independent apartment living for older adults.

Michele Lowe is the Executive Director of Northwood in the Community, a division of the Northwood Group of Companies, the largest continuing care organization (ie, community support, homecare, and long term care) in Atlantic Canada.

Suneel Ratan is the Principal of Care Architecture and a senior advisor to the Center for Technology and Aging, where he has been focusing on the application of internet-based technologies to improve the lives, health, and wellbeing of older adults and the disabled.

David Lee Scher, MD, is the Director of DLS Healthcare Consulting, LLC, which advises digital health technology companies, their strategic partners, investors and their clients. As a pioneer adopter of remote patient monitoring (RPM) technology more than 13 years ago, Scher became an astute observer and expert on clinical, financial, and marketplace barriers to the adoption of RPM and other digital technologies.

Linda Wick, RN, CNP, is a Nurse Practitioner who manages the Essentia Health Heart Failure program. The Essentia Heart Failure program is a nationally recognized program for their long standing outcomes that meet the triple aim of low cost, high patient satisfaction, and quality outcomes.

Andy Principe is President of Starling Advisors, a firm focused on partnering nationally with safety net organizations that envision a broader and more impactful role as health reform is implemented.

Tunstall Americas Grand Opening Event for New Data and Operations Center in Pawtucket, Rhode Island

Pawtucket, RI - Data and Operations Center location

Tunstall Americas, a leader in independent living technologies and 24/7 healthcare communication services, will host a grand opening on Tuesday, April 16 at 4:30pm at their new data and operations center at 100 Freight Street in Pawtucket, Rhode Island.

The opening marks an important milestone in the growth of Rhode Island's healthcare technology business sector, and the result of close cooperation between Tunstall Americas, the City of Pawtucket, and the State of Rhode Island. Multiple state and city agencies and departments have collaborated to make this relocation a reality.

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David Lee Scher, MD, to Speak About Speeding Adoption of Telehealth Solutions

David Lee Scher, MD, will participate in the TelehealthcareLeaders Forum on April 17, 2013. Dr. Scher will take part in a panel discussion with experts that have successfully implemented telehealthcare programs. The panel will share insights on overcoming clinical, financial, and marketplace barriers to speed the adoption of telehealthcare solutions and technologies. Best practices for successfully implementing telehealthcare solutions will be shared.

For more information, including a complete agenda, for the Telehealthcare Leaders Forum visit www.tunstallamac.com/TLF. 

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Keynote Speaker for Telehealthcare Leaders Forum - Carolyn Buck Luce

Carolyn Buck Luce will be presenting a keynote address at the Telehealthcare Leaders Forum on Wednesday, April 17th at 10am ET.

Reframing Innovation: Addressing Changes Reshaping the Healthcare System

Carolyn Buck Luce was the Ernst & Young Global Life Sciences Market Leader responsible for serving global life sciences companies with assurance, advisory, tax, and transaction solutions. In that capacity, Carolyn was responsible for E&Y’s strategy, thought leadership, resourcing, learning, and solution development to best serve clients in the Life Sciences Industry. She has served in various capacities on internal management committees at E&Y and is a frequent speaker at industry events. Carolyn is currently an Adjunct Professor at Columbia School of International and Public Affairs, teaching Management and Gender. Carolyn also has authored Harvard Business Review publications and frequently speaks at events on the topic of women’s leadership and empowerment.

For more information, including a complete agenda, for the Telehealthcare Leaders Forum visit http://www.tunstallamac.com/TLF.

Keynote Speaker for Telehealthcare Leaders Forum - Jason Hwang, MD, MBA

Jason Hwang, MD, MBA, will be presenting a keynote address at the Telehealthcare Leaders Forum on Wednesday, April 17th at 11:30am ET.

Promise of Healthcare Innovations and Disruptive Solutions for Healthcare
 
Jason Hwang, MD, MBA, is an internal medicine physician who, together with Professor Clayton M. Christensen of Harvard Business School, and the late Jerome H. Grossman of Harvard Kennedy School of Government, co-authored “The Innovator’s Prescription: A Disruptive Solution for Health Care”. Dr. Hwang previously co-founded and was the Executive Director of Healthcare at Innosight Institute, a non-profit social innovation think tank. He taught as Chief Resident and Clinical Instructor at the University of California, Irvine. He also served as clinician with the Southern California Kaiser Permanente Medical Group and the Department of Veterans Affairs Medical Center in Long Beach, California.

For more information, including a complete agenda, for the Telehealthcare Leaders Forum visit http://www.tunstallamac.com/TLF.

Powerhouse Pharma Panel to Address How Innovation May Enhance Patient Outcomes at the Telehealthcare Leaders Forum

Telehealthcare Innovation Panel Announced

The inaugural Telehealthcare Leaders Forum includes a panel of life science industry leaders that will share their views on new technologies such as telehealth, telecare/PERS, and mhealth, and how these technologies help the industry enhance patient outcomes, manage chronic conditions, improve patient adherence, demonstrate treatment value, and enable data sharing.

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On Wednesday, April 17, Carolyn Buck Luce, retired Market Leader from Ernst & Young, will moderate a panel comprised of...

Lisa Callender oversees strategy and operations for contact centers at Bristol-Myers Squibb. Lisa has extensive expertise in consumer and business marketing operations and strategies including consumer insight and satisfaction.

Lynn O'Connor Vos is Chief Executive Officer and President of Grey Healthcare Group. Lynn is leading efforts to use digital capabilities to transform healthcare marketing to impact outcomes and achieve improvement. She developed text4baby, the country's number one mobile health program.

Vera Rulon is Director, External Medical Communications at Pfizer Medical. Vera managed the Clinical Informatics team at Oxford Health Plans, where she supported building a Special Management Company that created an episode of care reimbursement strategy.

Ceci Zak is the Vice President of Commercial Capabilities at Sanofi. In this role, Ceci oversees a think tank and learning lab for novel business solutions, the digital center of excellence, and commercial training. Prior to this role, Ceci held numerous roles in marketing and sales within the industry.