227264 Advancing Telehealth through Collaborative Policy Development

Monday, November 8, 2010

Christine Martin, MBA , California Telemedicine & eHealth Center, Sacramento, CA
The California Telemedicine & eHealth Center (CTEC) completed an innovative collaborative policy project in 2009 to identify policy and related activites that would expand and optimize the use of telehealth in California. The collaborative brought together major stakeholders to develop recommendations on policy for appropriate payment and supporting structures. This presentation will provide a desciption of the collaborative development process, an overview of the recommendations and an assessment of impact of the recommendations on subsequent policy and implementation efforts thoughout the state. This project and the resulting policy brief receive nationwide attention for taking a broad approach to telehealth policy development and for using a structured collaborative process. This presentation provides a one year report card on the projects influcence and outcomes.

Learning Areas:
Administration, management, leadership
Program planning
Provision of health care to the public
Public health or related public policy

Learning Objectives:
Describe a statewide collaborative policy development methodology and process undertaken in California to expand the availibility of telehealth Discuss the policy outcomes from the collaborative's activities Assess the impact of the collaborative findings and recommendations on telehealth expansion

Keywords: Telehealth, Collaboration

Presenting author's disclosure statement:

Qualified on the content I am responsible for because: I directed the development of the statewide policy collaborative presented in this abstract
Any relevant financial relationships? No

I agree to comply with the American Public Health Association Conflict of Interest and Commercial Support Guidelines, and to disclose to the participants any off-label or experimental uses of a commercial product or service discussed in my presentation.

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