UPCOMING WEBINAR:
Specialty Care in the Age of COVID: Using Specialty Inpatient Teleconsults to Deliver the Best Patient Care Locally
| |
|
October 28th, 12 p.m. - 1 p.m. CT, Zoom
OVERVIEW: Many hospitals can't staff out all clinical lines, especially non-procedure-based services like infectious disease, neurology, pulmonology, psychiatry, non-invasive cardiology, etc. This can be for lack of volume, lack of funds, lack of needed specialists locally, or all of the above. While this has always harmed patients and hospitals in a wide variety of financial and medical ways, in the age of COVID-19, this lack of specialist access has become catastrophic for small and rural medical facilities. With the recent changes in telemedicine coverage driven by CMS, however, hospitals have a new solution to this medical access problem: multi-specialty teleconsults. This webinar will cover the importance and benefits of offering such non-procedure based specialties locally, especially at hospitals dealing with the influx of COVID-19 patients; explore how recent coverage changes for multi-specialty teleconsults allow hospitals to bridge the medical access gap in a financially attractive manner; and answer questions around the logistics and implementation of such a service.
LEARNING OBJECTIVES:
- Understand the various negative medical and financial impacts of not offering key non-procedure based specialties locally, especially during COVID.
- Understand the recent changes in Medicare and other Payors' telemedicine coverage and what that means for hospitals' physician coverage options.
- Understand the options available for specialty teleconsults, especially for hospitals looking to provide immediate access to commonly needed specialty support for COVID patients, specifically in infectious disease & pulmonology (proper treatment and drug protocols, vent management for hospitals unused to keeping intubated patients, etc.) Additional telespecialty coverage options to deal with COVID-19 driven peripheral needs, such as neurology, cardiology, nephrology, and psychiatry, will also be covered.
- Understand the logistics and technology involved in setting up a multi-specialty teleconsult service, and best practices for implementation.
- Understand what medical and financial benefits hospitals that have implemented remote specialty coverage have seen, including how this type of support can help facilities treat higher acuity patients locally, and related best practice takeaways.
PRESENTER INFORMATION:
| |
|
Meena Mallipeddi, CEO, T SQRD
Meena co-founded T SQRD after many years of working on the business side of the healthcare industry and seeing the need (both medically and financially) for more specialty access in small and rural hospitals. Before that, she managed a multi-billion dollar portfolio of healthcare businesses for many years, including hospitals and healthtech companies, at both Royce & Associates and Wyper Capital. Meena started her career as a consultant at Bain & Company, working in both the San Francisco and New York offices. She earned her BA in International Relations/Computer Science with Honors at Stanford University, and her M.Phil in Technology Policy at the Judge Business School at Cambridge University, where she was a Gates Scholar.
| |  |
 | |
Anand Nathan, CPO/COO, T SQRD
Anand co-founded T SQRD with the mission to connect medical facilities, no matter where they are, to the specialists they need to deliver the best patient care. Driven by the opportunity to use technology to solve medical access problems for places like his rural hometown, he is building the first multi-specialty, turnkey platform for inpatient specialty teleconsults that is simple and cost-effective to set-up, and fits in seamlessly to existing clinical workflows. Before T SQRD, he had 15+ years of experience in executive roles in strategy, operations, and finance. Most recently, Anand was a Senior Director at LinkedIn/Microsoft where he led a number of key strategic initiatives including determining LinkedIn's approach to healthcare. Prior to LinkedIn/Microsoft, Anand was COO/CFO of another tech business that he led to a successful sale, and also led key teams at KKR and Bain & Company. Anand has a B.S.E. degree in Biomedical Engineering and a B.S. in Economics from Duke University, where he graduated Magna Cum Laude.
| | |
Meeting ID: 889 7714 7714 Passcode: 641919 | |
|
Working on improving access to health care?
Want to stay up to date on rural health?
Interested in volunteering?
CONNECT WITH US
| | | | |
