At Med-e-Tel, 14-16 April 2010 ... Intel's View ... Moving Beyond EMRs to Sustainable Business Models

[CC-Conrad Clyburn-MedForeSight]

Colleagues,

The annual Med-e-Tel international conference organized by MedTech-IQ member Frank Lievens, is rapidly approaching.  At this year's conference, Dr. Mark Blatt, Global Director of Health Industry Solutions for Intel's Digital Health Group will present his views on sustainable business models for telecare/telehealth and on telemedicine as the preferred model of care for the 21st century at Med-e-Tel 2010.

This presentation will be part of a morning plenary session at Med-e-Tel on Thursday April 15th ...

... According to Dr. Blatt, sustainable business models where telehealth technologies can be useful to patients can be thought of in four fundamental ways:

• Chronic Disease Management at Home - decreasing more costly contact with healthcare systems in institutional settings (EDs, Surgeries, Hospitals)
  
• ED Diversion: Safe and effective treatment by Home Telecare system, instead of admitting patient to hospital
• Early Discharge (free up BDOC). Via use of a monitoring system. Stops the need for more hospitals as more conditions can be managed at home
  
• Readmissions Prevention: If you have an acute exacerbation following discharge, how can Telehealth help avoid readmission?

About Med-e-Tel
Med-e-Tel focuses on ehealth and telemedicine applications and a wide range of other medical ICT applications and on the convergence of information and communication technology with medical applications, which lead to higher quality of care, cost reductions, workflow efficiency, and widespread availability of healthcare services. The "Med" in Med-e-Tel stands for healthcare services (institutional and home based care, prevention and education) and for medical products and equipment (medical imaging equipment, monitoring devices, electronic health records, etc.).  The "e" stands for the electronic and IT industry and services (hard-& software, internet, e-mail, etc.).  The "Tel" stands for telecommunications (whether it is POTS, ISDN, wireless, satellite, videoconferencing, VoIP, or other).

Read on at: http://www.ehealthserver.com/conferences-and-events/475-moving-beyo...

For further information on the Med-e-Tel conference, please visit www.medetel.eu.

ENJOY!

CC