Wellness and Health Promotion. AMC Health’s

AMC Health’s, of AMC Health, technology platform gives clinicians access to real-time, clinically actionable information to positively affect outcomes. We identify data points clinicians require to best manage their patients and facilitate patient self-care, locate the very best technologies in the marketplace that can provide that data in a cost effective manner and integrate them into our web portal. We recommend technology and tools that are based on the patient, not the disease. This patient-first approach enables more touch points with your patient and reliable collection of biometric data that can help provide an even higher level of care.

It will work with your existing system to make real-time information and reporting securely available to everyone who needs it and integrates with multiple types of monitors and third-party EMRs, providing a seamless flow of information. We currently integrate with several widely used EMRs, including McKesson Horizon®, Epic®, Thornberry®, Mysis®, as well as several proprietary applications. The web portal also contains all customer service data, e.g. enrollment campaigns, equipment installations and retrievals, etc. By providing access to clinical and service information, you will be able to better manage the populations you serve.

The AMC Health web portal was designed by clinicians for clinicians. It provides a single source of comprehensive information for a patient through diverse, real-time information (including biometric data, medication adherence data, self-reported symptomatic and behavioral data, and live data). Real-time monitoring supports detection of biometric trends and patterns of non-adherence over a brief period of time. AMC Health uses advanced technology in conjunction with best practices to ensure that your patients’ health information is captured accurately and consistently, in keeping with all HIPAA requirements and standards. Clinicians receive clinically actionable information to help them make better decisions. AMC Health’s robust technology platform effectively supports the CMS Triple Aim objectives of better care, better health and lower cost.

Why Telehealth?

• Empowers patients to improve their health
• Monitors patients between office visits and after hospital discharge
• Provides timely intervention to drive behavior modification
• Improves care management efficiency
• Meaningful and clinically actionable information fromthe patient’s home

 

The Role of Telehealth in an Evolving Health Care Environment

In 1996, the Institute of Medicine (IOM) released its report Telemedicine: A Guide to Assessing Telecommunications for Health Care. In that report, the IOM Committee on Evaluating Clinical Applications of Telemedicine found telemedicine is similar in most respects to other technologies for which better evidence of effectiveness is also being demanded. Telemedicine, however, has some special characteristics-shared with information technologies generally-that warrant particular notice from evaluators and decision makers.

Since that time, attention to telehealth has continued to grow in both the public and private sectors. Peer-reviewed journals and professional societies are devoted to telehealth, the federal government provides grant funding to promote the use of telehealth, and the private technology industry continues to develop new applications for telehealth. However, barriers remain to the use of telehealth modalities, including issues related to reimbursement, licensure, workforce, and costs. Also, some areas of telehealth have developed a stronger evidence base than others.

The Health Resources and Service Administration (HRSA) sponsored the IOM in holding a workshop in Washington, DC, on August 8-9 2012, to examine how the use of telehealth technology can fit into the U.S. health care system. HRSA asked the IOM to focus on the potential for telehealth to serve geographically isolated individuals and extend the reach of scarce resources while also emphasizing the quality and value in the delivery of health care services.

This workshop summary discusses the evolution of telehealth since 1996, including the increasing role of the private sector, policies that have promoted or delayed the use of telehealth, and consumer acceptance of telehealth. The Role of Telehealth in an Evolving Health Care Environment: Workshop Summary discusses the current evidence base for telehealth, including available data and gaps in data; discuss how technological developments, including mobile telehealth, electronic intensive care units, remote monitoring, social networking, and wearable devices, in conjunction with the push for electronic health records, is changing the delivery of health care in rural and urban environments.

This report also summarizes actions that the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) can undertake to further the use of telehealth to improve health care outcomes while controlling costs in the current health care environment.

The Role of Telehealth in an Evolving Health Care Environment: Workshop Summary (2012). Tracy A. Lustig, Rapporteur; Board on Health Care Services; Institute of Medicine

• Front Matteri-xii

• 1 Introduction1-4

• 2 Opening Remarks5-10

• 3 The Evolution of Telehealth: Where Have We Been and Where Are We Going?11-16

• 4 Challenges in Telehealth17-30

• 5 Telehealth and Payment31-42

• 6 The Health Care Continuum43-54

• 7 Remarks and Discussion: Day 155-60

• 8 Current Evidence Base61-74

• 9 Technological Developments75-88

• 10 State-Based Perspectives89-98

• 11 Experiences of the VA and IHS99-114

• 12 Stakeholder Perspectives115-124

• 13 Concluding Remarks and Discussion125-130

• References131-132

• Appendix A: Definitions133-134

• Appendix B: Acronyms135-138

• Appendix C: Workshop Agenda