1. Joseph C. Kvedar
Director, Telemedicine
Partners HealthCare Systems
March 9, 2006

2. Telemedicine hits the medical device industry!

3. Agenda Who We Are: Partners Telemedicine
Connected Health: Why it is an imperative
Partnerships/Teamwork
Lessons Learned

4. Who We Are: Partners Telemedicine
Using consumer technologies and online resources to delivery quality care to patients outside the medical setting
Helping to shape the future of healthcare by creating new ways to deliver care when and where it is needed
Established in 1995, we are a division of Partners HealthCare with Harvard Medical School-affiliated teaching hospitals, Massachusetts General and Brigham and Women’s Hospitals

5. Who We Are: Strategic Focus
Research and development
initiatives to deliver care when and where it is needed:
Physiologic monitoring: using sensors and consumer electronics to impact patient care and outcomes
Connected communications: facilitating improved, trusting communications between patients and providers
Data solutions: using patient data to drive treatment algorithms and protocols
Services connecting patients and their physicians with specialists at Partners:
Remote Consultations: online second opinions with leading specialists available via the Internet
Distance Education: Live, video-conference enabled physician-to-physician education

6. Agenda Who We Are: Partners Telemedicine
Connected Health: Why it is an imperative
Partnerships/Teamwork
Lessons Learned

7. Connected Health: Why it is an Imperative
Growth in Chronic Disease
Supply and Demand Projections for
Nurses: to 2020

8. Healthcare Today Doctor-centric Scheduled visits Patient goes to the
medical facility

9. Connected Health Patient-centric On-going care
Care when and where it is needed
Patient has access to their own health data

10. Agenda Who We Are: Partners Telemedicine
Connected Health: Why it is an imperative
Partnerships/Teamwork
Lessons Learned

11. How We Work: Partners Provider Technology organizations partners
Massachusetts
General Hospital
Brigham and Women’s
Hospital
Partners HomeCare
CIMIT
Motorola
RelayHealth
VitelNet
MIT
Payers
BCBSMA
Large Employers
Benefits Management Co’s

12. How We Work: Engaging Consumers
Facilitating trusting, caring communications between patients and providers
Connected Communications
Using
sensors and
consumer
technologies
to provide
continuous
care
Using
patient data to drive treatment algorithms, protocols, and user-friendly interfaces
Patient
Physiologic
Monitoring
Data
Solutions

13. How We Work: From R&D to Operations
Pilot:
Proof-of-concept
Useability
Needs assessment
Clinical Trial:
Technology and process research
Evaluate value
Operational Service:
Permanent resources in place
Ongoing evaluation

14. A Success Case: Heart Failure Monitoring

15. Agenda Who We Are: Partners Telemedicine
Connected Health: Why it is an imperative
Partnerships/Teamwork
Lessons Learned

16. Lessons Learned Accuracy: How accurate does the technology need to be?
Regulatory issues scare people away
Physicians are capricious customers
The mobile phone industry is challenging as a health care technology
Network reliability is a major obstacle

17. Join the Discussion: http://www.connected-health.org

18. Thank You