Current trends in Healthcare/Telemedicine

Improving Quality of Care while Increasing Revenue Advantages of video communications for all levels of healthcare delivery. Joe D’Iorio will discuss the key advantages of telehealth to tertiary hospitals, remote facilities, specialty centers – and most importantly to the patients. Some of the advantages include the ability to make effective use of the specialist’s time, the ability to bring in other counselors to help the patient understand and move forward without the need for even more visits to the hospital. Other points of discussion will include:

Interacting with high risk patients from remote areas on more frequent basis
• Decreasing costs for Medicaid transportation issues
• Placing revenue back to local hospital versus transporting
• Facilitating emergency response network across multiple medical specialties
• Raising competency of remote professionals through increased specialist interaction
• Leveraging existing equipment for local hospitals to expand care services