Home Telehealth, Remote Monitoring & Disease Management:
Connecting Tomorrow’s Vision of Healthcare Today

Omni ChampionsGate
Orlando, Florida
September 25 – 27, 2006

Sponsored by ATA’s Home Telehealth Special Interest Group & the University of South Florida

Continuing Education Credits Available!

Opening Remarks
Welcome and overview of the major areas of interest that will be addressed during the conference.

Susan Dimmick, PhD
Chair, ATA Home Telehealth SIG
Project Manager, Oak Ridge Associated Universities (ORAU), Adjunct Associate Professor
University of Tennessee Health Science Center,
Memphis, TN

Rhonda Chetney, MS, RN
Vice Chair, ATA Home Telehealth SIG
Director of Home Care Operations
Sentara Home Care Services
Chesapeake, VA

Rita Kobb, MS, MN, GNP-BC
Director, Sunshine Training Center, Education
Program Specialist, VHA Office of Care Coordination
Lake City, FL

Keynote Speaker: The Electronic Personal Health Record and Telemedicine Services

"Innovation that Matters in Patient Care"

This plenary will address the importance and future directions of home telehealth, remote monitoring and disease management.

Richard Bakalar, MD
President, American Telemedicine Association
Chief Medical Officer
IBM
Rockville, MD

Product Showcase
This interactive session will provide an overview of products and services for home telehealth and remote patient monitoring. Through interviews with company representatives, meeting participants will learn about state-of-the-art technologies and how various technologies can be used in a clinical setting. To view a list of vendors, click here.

Jonathan Linkous
Executive Director
American Telemedicine Association
Washington, DC

Thelma McClosky Armstrong
Director
Eastern Montana Telemedicine Network
Billings, MT

Concurrent Panel: Integrating Remote Monitoring into Home Care Agency Practices

Chair: Rhonda Chetney, MS, RN
Director of Clinical Operations
Sentara Home Care Services
Chesapeake, VA

Telehealth in Home Care: Evaluation and Exploration of Opportunities
Penny Lovitt, RN, MSN
Regional Manager
Deaconess HomeCare
Hattiesburg, MS

Kim Hedges , RN, BSN
Clinical Project Manager
McKesson Extended Care Solutions Group
Advance, NC

Concurrent Panel: Best Practices in Home Telehealth: A Statewide Survey and a Case Study

Chair: Marie Mann, MPS-HSA, BSN, RN
Vice President, Business Strategy and Clinical Product Innovation
ViTel Net
McLean, VA

CareWatch Ohio: A Unique Statewide Home Telemonitoring Collaborative
Sharon Jones, MSN, RN, CNAA
Executive Vice President, Clinical Operations
VNA Healthcare Partners of Ohio
Cleveland, OH

Telerehabilitation of High Risk Patients in Home Telehealth Settings: Experience to Date
Donald K. Shaw, PhD, PT, FAACVPR
Associate Professor
Telehealth Program Director, Texas State University
San Marcos, TX

Plenary Panel: What Works in Home Telehealth? What Research Tells Us
The good news is that more studies than ever before have focused on home telehealth and remote monitoring. Patients are eager to embrace technology as part of their care and numerous studies show that patients gain an enhanced quality of life and reduce their demand on expensive healthcare resources, such as hospitalizations. This session will cover the results of an extensive study in home telehealth and remote monitoring. Speakers will discuss what findings are strong as well as which areas need further attention to advance the field.

Opening Remarks & Home Telehealth SIG Update
ATA Home Telehealth SIG Leaders

Plenary Session: Home Telehealth and VHA
The Veteran's Administration (VHA) is a national leader in the use of home telehealth. Through its care coordination initiative the VHA has served over 16,000 veterans nationwide with telehealth. This plenary will cover the status of this initiative, outcomes, patients, and lessons learned.

Chair: Rita Kobb, MS, MN, GNP-BC
Director, Sunshine Training Center
Education Program Specialist
VHA Office of Care Coordination
Lake City, FL

Pat Ryan, RN, MS
Acting Associate Chief Consultant
VHA Office of Care Coordination
Director, Community Care Coordination Service Sunshine Network
Bay Pines, FL

Concurrent Panel: Turning Patients into Consumers-Incorporating Self-management into Home Telehealth Programs

Chair: Susan Dimmick, PhD
Project Manager, Oak Ridge Associated Univesities (ORAU)
Adjunct Associate Professor
University of Tennessee Health Science Center
Memphis, TN

Facilitating Self Care Through Advanced Remote Monitoring
Joseph A. Cafazzo. MHSc, PEng
Clinical Engineer, Manager
Medical Device Informatics and Healthcare Human Factors
Centre for Global eHealth Innovation
Toronto General Hospital
Toronto, ON

e-Heart Failure Monitoring and Education: Making a Difference
Sheri Kline, MSN, ARNP, BC
Lead Care Coordinator
North Florida/South Georgia Veterans Health System
Lake City, FL

Home-Based Monitoring for Older People with Long Term Conditions: The UK Newham Experience
Angela J. Single, RGN, NDN, PWT, BA (Hons)
Project Director Long Term Conditions
Newham PCT and Newham University Hospital Trust
Buckden Cambs, Eng

Concurrent Panel: Using Home Telehealth for End-of-life Care: Three Case Studies

Chair: Marie Mann, MPS-HSA, BSN, RN
Vice President, Business Strategy and Clinical Product Innovation
ViTel Net
McLean, VA

Hospice and Home Telemonitoring? What Could You be Thinking?
Roberta Laurie, RN, BSN, EMBA
Executive Vice President
VNA Healthcare Partners of Ohio
Cleveland, OH

The Impact of Technology at the End of Life
Jim Maudlin, Div M.
Chaplain, Tech Care Coordination Program
North Florida/South Georgia Veterans Health System
Lake City, FL

Using Technology to Provide End of Life Support to End State Heart Failure Patients
Jeannie Keene, MSN, ARNP
Care Coordinator
Advanced Illness Palliative Care Coordination Program North Florida/South Georgia Veterans Health System
Gainesville, FL

Concurrent Panel: Funding Your Telehealth Program
Learn how home telehealth agencies have obtained funding for their Telehealth programs. Successful strategies for acquiring appropriations, grant funding and corporate funding will be covered.

Chair: Sharon Jones, MSN, RN, CNAA
Executive VP, Clinical Operations
VNA Healthcare Partners of Ohio
Cleveland, OH

Stan Skocki
Founding Partner
The Normandy Group, LLC
Washington, DC

Getting to Know You, Getting to Know All About You... (Sample Funding Proposal)
Gvido L. Burgis, CFRE
Vice President, Development
Visiting Nurse Service, Inc.
Indianapolis, IN

Concurrent Session: Quality Assurance
Chair: Rhonda Chetney, MS, RN
Director of Clinical Operations
Sentara Home Care Services
Chesapeake, VA

What the Medicare QIOs Are Doing To Help Agencies Incorporate Telehealth (Telehealth Poster | Telehealth Brochure)
Bonnie Kerns, RN
Community of Practice Manager
Quality Insights of Pennsylvania/HHQIOSC
Pittsburgh, PA

Lunch & Networking - Sponsored by Patient Care Technologies
Luncheon Speaker: Remote Monitoring Device Standards
Intel is leading the new Continua Health Alliance, a collaborative industry organization dedicated to bringing together standards and diverse technology systems that combine products and technologies to enable better personal health care for people worldwide.

David Whitlinger (Presentation)
President and Board Chairman
Continua Health Alliance
Director of Healthcare Device Standards, Intel Corporation
Beaverton, OR

Concurrent Panel: Using Remote Monitoring for Diabetes Patients: A National Review of Successful Programs and Two Leading Examples

Chair: Rita Kobb, MS, MN, GNP-BC
Director, Sunshine Training Center
EducationProgram Specialist
VHA Office of Care Coordination
Lake City, FL

The Telemanagement of Diabetes Through the Use of Bluetooth-Enabled Mobile Phones
Joseph A. Cafazzo, MHSc, PEng
Clinical Engineer, Manager
Medical Device Informatics and Healthcare Human Factors
Centre for Global eHealth Innovation
Toronto General Hospital
Toronto, ON

Telehealth Tackles Preventing Diabetes at the Orlando VA with the GREAT GAME PLAN
Carol A. Rice, MA, BSN, RN
Lead Care Coordinator of the GREAT GAME PLAN
Orlando VA Healthcare Center
Orlando, FL

Concurrent Panel: Thinking Outside the Box
This session will discuss issues related to home telehealth and taking the industry to the next level. The role of the family caregiver, prospects for reimbursement, and the role of the durable medical equipment dealer will be addressed.

Chair: Marie Mann, MPS-HSA, BSN, RN
Vice President, Business Strategy and Clinical Product Innovation
ViTel Net
McLean, VA

What Box Are We In and How Do We Get Out Of It?
Jay Sanders, MD, FACP, FACAAI
President and CEO
The Global Telemedicine Group
McLean, VA

Working Together To Succeed in Home Telehealth
Sheldon Prial
Consultant, Director of Government Relations
Graham-Field Health Products
Melbourne, FL

Plenary Panel: Consumer Perspectives on Home Telehealth and Remote Monitoring: The Person at the Center of Care
For the first time ever at an ATA meeting, patients will talk about their personal healthcare experiences using remote monitoring equipment. Mr. Steve Slinker, a veteran in Florida, and 10-year old Aubrey from LaFollette, TN, will share what it has been like having telehealth technology help manage their chronic illnesses. Also, the valuable lessons learned and stories of several remotely monitored patients in the Sentara Home Health program will be covered.

Chair: Susan Dimmick, PhD
Project Manager, Oak Ridge Associated Univesities (ORAU), Adjunct Associate Professor
University of Tennessee Health Science Center
Memphis, TN

Steve Slinker
Adult Patient in VA Great Game Plan for Pre-Diabetics
Veterans Health System
Tavares, FL

Aubrey
10-year-old Pediatric Patient in Tele-asthma Project
UT Health Science Center Telehealth Program

Shan Ray, CRT
Respiratory Therapist for Aubrey
REACHS
LaFollette, TN

Rhonda Chetney, MS, RN (Presentation)
Director of Home Care Operations
Sentara Home Care Services
Chesapeake, VA

Opening Remarks
ATA Home Telehealth SIG Leaders

Roundtables

Chair: Rita Kobb, MS, MN, GNP-BC
Director, Sunshine Training Center, Education
Program Specialist, VHA Office of Care
Coordination
Lake City, FL

Technology Integration into the Retirement Housing Community
Sheri Easton Garrett, RN, MSN, CLNC
Vice President of Technology Development
Sears Methodist Retirement System, Inc.
Abilene, TX

Fusing Intelligent Sensors for Robust In-Home Monitoring of the Elderly
David C. Alsmeyer, PhD
Director of Research & Development, Healthsense
Mendota Heights, MN

Advancing Wound Management in Homecare Using Web-based Technology
Ann Semotiuk, BA, BSW, MHSA
Program Lead, Home Support Services
Capital Health Community Care Services
Edmonton, AB Canada

Using Remote Monitoring for Chronic Disease Management in a Rural Home Health Population
David Fleming, MD, FACP
Associate Professor of Medicine
Director, Center for Health Ethics
University of Missouri School of Medicine
Columbia, MO

Incorporating Remote Monitoring / Home Telehealth into Disease Management Program
Krisan Palmer, RN
Regional Telehealth Coordinator
St. John Regional Hospital
St. John, New Brunswick

Providing Home Telehealth Along a Continuum of Care
Joann Jerry, MN, ARNP
Lead Care Coordinator, Tech Care Coordination Home Telehealth, NF/SG Veterans Health Care System
Lake City, FL

The Pathways Program “Bridging Your Way to Better Breathing”
David A. Anderson, PhD, CHE
CEO, TouchPointCare
Libertyville, IL

Patient Provider Community Telehealth Network
Bonnie Britton, MSN
COO/DON
Roanoke Chowan Community Health Center
Ahoskie, NC

Plenary Panel: Emerging Remote Monitoring Applications for Wellness and Fitness
Wellness and health promotion startegies are delivering positive results as employers amd payers deliver programs that help individuals take personal responsibility for their health. New monitoring strategies are being used to improve quality of life and assist with elder care.

Combined with the increasing availability of personal devices-there is a large opportunity to improve preventative care and reduce health risks. This panel will discuss startegies to maximize benefits of current and future technology with focus on:

• Rewards & incentives to encourage engagement and sustain healthy behaviors
• Ease of use and other critical factors for successful programs
• New devices and emerging standards

Chair: Deborah Burns
Senior Director of Sales
iMetrikus
Highstown, NJ

Judith Hicks
Founder and President
Focused Health Solutions
Deerfield, IL

Douglas P. Bogia, PhD (Presentation)
Intel Corporation
Standards Architect, Digital Health Standards
Chair-ISO/IEEE 11073 Personal Health Data
Work Group
Beaverton, OR