ATA 2013 Call for Presentations Now Open
Speak at the biggest telehealth event of the year!
ATA 2013 – 18th Annual International Meeting & Trade Show
of the American Telemedicine Association
May 5-7, 2013 in Austin, TX
www.ATA2013.org
Abstracts accepted through September 14, 2012
The ATA Annual Meeting is recognized throughout the world as the primary forum encompassing all aspects of telemedicine including telehealth, mHealth and remote monitoring. Whether you are a novice or expert, clinician or engineer, CEO or industry partner, ATA 2013 presents opportunities to engage with thought-provoking speakers and experience innovative session formats for learning about telemedicine applications from around the world.
Abstract submissions are open to everyone and all go through a peer-reviewed process that ensures the integrity and relevance of educational content. Peer reviewers from all membership constituencies, including private, academic, corporate, institutional, and government sectors, carefully review and score abstracts to ensure the 2013 ATA educational program is one of high quality and geared toward meeting the diverse needs of those in attendance. Click here to submit an abstract.
Program Focus Areas
NEW! The peer review committee will consider any high quality proposal related to telemedicine and remote healthcare technology; however, preference will be given to abstracts that address one of the 6 high priority topics listed below:
1. Research, Outcomes & Evidence – Research findings from completed studies with large populations, which follow rigorous methodology and include data with critical findings in the field of telemedicine.
- Patient outcome measures such as quality of care, satisfaction, time to service delivery, impact of telehealth, etc.
- Impact measures such as efficacy compared to in-person services, effect on any complications, effects on treatment options, effect on subsequent interventions or re-hospitalizations, effect(s) on health of patient, access to care, etc.
- Programmatic performance measures such as cost reduction, avoidance of emergency visits, impact on work flow and decision support, etc.
- Research opportunities and needs
2. Business, Finance & Economics – Sustainable business plans, developing public-private business ventures, securing and managing reimbursement, economic considerations for outsourcing clinical services and documenting return on investment (ROI).
- Business models integrating telemedicine into the operations of small to mid-sized settings
- ROI, the telemedicine value proposition
- A view from the C Suite regarding the use of telemedicine outsourcing
- Strategies for integrating telemedicine for institutional C Suite decision makers
- Strategies for integrating telemedicine for providers in private practice
- Private payer reimbursement strategies for telehealth
- Forming successful public/private partnerships
- Successful marketing strategies
- Moving from pilot projects to integrated services – increasing scale and volume
3. Service Delivery Models – Telemedicine used in innovative specialty consultative and outsourced services, web-based patient services, remote patient monitoring, care coordination models.
- Outsourcing clinical services via telemedicine
- Teleradiology, telepathology, telecardiology – separate networks or integrated approaches?
- Focused service delivery models (such as telerehabilitation)
- National, multi-state, and statewide networks
- The use of remote healthcare for specific life-time illnesses (such as Parkinson’s and multiple sclerosis)
4. Best Practices – Lessons learned from successful telemedicine programs, best practices to ensure reduced costs, increased revenue and/or improved service, model approaches for specialty areas, integrating telehealth into existing healthcare systems, exceptional program design, and implementation.
- Hospital-based programs for reducing readmissions
- Telemedicine in the inner city
- Lessons learned from efforts to adopt ATA telemedicine practice guidelines
- Telemedicine around the globe
- Increasing physician and other provider productivity
- Internet prescribing
5. Innovative Telehealth Applications – Identifying and deploying the latest telehealth technology, integrating with electronic health records, emerging technologies and future health trends.
- Niche markets
- Online patient engagement tools
6. Public Policy – Includes public reimbursement, strategies for removing regulatory and legislative barriers, state-level policy innovations, tactics for expanding and sustaining policy support, visions for a telehealth-enabled national health system.
- Model roles for the state legislature promoting telemedicine
- Dealing with licensure and practice rules of state medical boards
- Payment alternatives to fee-for-service
- Progress report from the CMMI grantees
- Emerging opportunities for CMMI
- Innovative use of telemedicine by state Medicaid plans
- Needs for meaningful use stage 3
- Medicare and Medicaid coordination
For full guidelines and to submit an abstract, visit: www.ATA2013.org