Symposium:
212. The Time is Now for Telehealth in ID
Saturday, October 29, 2016: 10:30 AM-12:00 PM
Room: 278-282
Co-organized with the IDSA Clinical Affairs Committee

Learning Objectives:

At the conclusion of this session, participants will be able to:

  • determine what specific elements are required to establish a telemedicine/telehealth program
  • identify how to negotiate and to complete a contract to provide telemedicine/telehealth
  • list the technologies that may be available in the near future that will build upon telehealth

Target Audience: Clinicians, Fellows, HIV clinicians, HIV specialists, Hospital administrators, Infectious diseases pediatricians, Infectious diseases physicians, Members-in-training, Nurses, Pharmacists

Tracks: Pediatric ID, Epidemiology and Infection Control, Adult ID

Moderators:  John B. Lynch, MD, MPH, Harborview Medical Center and Shireesha Dhanireddy, MD, University of Washington

Presentations:
10:30 AM
1769
Necessary Components for Telehealth: ECHO Telementoring and Other Strategies to Increase Workforce Capacity
Brian Wood, MD

10:55 AM
Q&A
11:00 AM
1770
How to Negotiate a Contract to Offer Telehealth
Javeed Siddiqui, MD, MPH

11:25 AM
Q&A
11:30 AM
1771
Technology beyond Telehealth - How Mobile Health Devices Will Change the Practice of Medicine and ID
David Classen, MD, MS

11:55 AM
Q&A

CME Credits: Maximum of 1.5 hours of AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™

ACPE Credits:

ACPE Number:

Disclosures:

J. B. Lynch, None

S. Dhanireddy, None

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