1. UAB and Telemedicine
Don Lilly, Sr. Vice Pres.
UAB Health System
10/18/13

2. About UABHS
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Own, Manage or Affiliated with 10 hospitals in Alabama
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Over 900 physicians and 11,000 employees
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UAB Hospital one of 5 largest AMC’s in the country
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Adult Level I Trauma Center
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Level IV NICU
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Comprehensive Centers for Cancer and Transplant
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3. Support Systems
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What We Have:
 Support from Executive leadership
 Executive/administrative Champions
 Physician Champions
 Regional Relationships
 Service Strategies/Service Lines
 Sophisticated IT Support
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4. Goals
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What problem(s) are we trying to solve?
 Gain referrals & admissions?
 Avoid admissions/readmissions?
 Expand education and research?
 Improve quality? Whose?
 Improve Access to UAB Expertise?
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5. Sample Projects
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Ambassador Program
 View only portal to UAB clinical record
 Requires physician to register for use
 Imaging availability in 2014
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Tele-Stroke
 Strategic relationship with 3rd party vendor
 8 sites
 Concept can be replicated to other services
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6. Sample Projects
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Imaging Transfer Network via VPN
 Focus is imaging intensive services
 8 hospitals live for neurology, neurosurgery, trauma
 6 hospitals in test mode
 Plan to add CV images to sites
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Cancer Network
 10 affiliate sites in 4 states
 Developing remote 2nd opinion
 Developing remote tumor boards
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7. Sample Projects
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EQUALITY Program
 Eye Quality & Accessibility Improvement in the
Community
 Community based glaucoma detection model for at
risk African Americans
 Not a screening program. Evidence based newly
developed optic nerve assesment
 Hub and spoke with UAB Callahan Eye Hospital and
local Walmart Vision Centers
 2 sites operational under grant funding
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8. Sample Projects
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Others:
 Creation of Smartphone Applications group
 Reading of remote EEG
 Reading of remote CV studies (echo, ultrasound &
nuclear medicine) from mobile vendors
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9. UABHS
QUESTIONS?
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10. UABHS
QUESTIONS?
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