The document discusses UAB Health System's use of telemedicine. It notes that UABHS owns or is affiliated with 10 hospitals in Alabama, employs over 11,000 people, and includes the largest adult and children's hospital in the state. The document outlines some of UABHS's telemedicine projects, including a telestroke program connecting 8 sites, an imaging transfer network sharing scans between hospitals, and several cancer and eye health networks. It aims to use telemedicine to improve access, quality, and avoid admissions while expanding education and research across its regional hospitals.

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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