Speaker Presentation from U.S. News Healthcare of Tomorrow leadership summit, November 2-4, 2016 in Washington, DC. Find out more about this forum at www.usnewshot.com.

1. Telemedicine Comes of Age
Rohit Varma, M.D., M.P.H.
Interim Dean – Keck School of Medicine of USC
Director – USC Roski Eye InsAtute
November 3, 2016

2. • Telemedicine is evolving
• Introducing the USC Virtual
Care Clinic
• Why USC is unique when it
comes to digital health
innovation
• What the future looks like
Overview
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Technology moves fast …
… and medicine has to keep pace

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Smartphones Worldwide = 2.6 billion
Smartphones U.S. = 80% penetration
12,000 wearables for health tracking
165,000 medical apps
More than 100 million telemedicine visits in 2015
Most are 35-54 years old
Worldwide ¾ use internet daily
76% on internet engage in social media

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Patients want:
• On demand response
• Borderless access to experts
• Trusted, personalized medical
and clinical trial information
• Non-judgmental environment
• Empowerment to manage
chronic illness
• Secure personal health data

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Providers want:
• Reduced hospital readmissions
($26 billion annually)
• Reduced physician time paperwork vs
patient care
(60% of time spent on paperwork instead
of patient interactions)
• Medication adherence
(chronic illness patients take only 50% of
medications prescribed)
• Digital tools promise improved
population health data and meaningful-
use rule usage

7. § Located in Los Angeles
§ Top 10 in California ranked in
7 special>es - US News & World
Report
§ 3 hospitals
§ More than 40 outpa>ent clinics
§ Founded 1885
§ 1,500 full->me faculty
physicians
§ 1,200 students
§ World-class research (top in NIH
grants)
§ Ranked 31 - US News & World
Report
§ Established 1880
§ Ranked 15 in the na>on
(Wall Street Journal/Times Higher
Educa>on)
• Na>on’s #1 cinema school, #3
na>onally ranked business school, #9
engineering school, more Olympic
medalists than any other university,
home to 1 of only 2 commercial
quantum computers (other one at
NASA/Google facility)

8. USC’s Unique Cross-School Collaborations
First & Only
Digital Health
Fellowship

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USC
Virtual Care Clinic

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Virtual Doctors Digital Medicine
Innovative
Wearables & Apps
Evidence-based data &
clinical trial info
HIPAA compliant
cloud computing
8Foundational partners
Holistic Virtual Care Solution
Hollywood’s Best
digital storytellers
Reliable App
Evaluation
Award-winning
Design

12. VSP Global – Keck Medicine of USC Pilot Study
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• First wearable in eyeglasses
• USC Roski Eye Institute clinical
partner in this VCC project
• Studying biometrics and influence
of philanthropic giving on health

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The future of telemedicine
• Payer models; reimbursements
• Regulatory issues
• Physician & medical student training
• Scalability to other health systems

14. Thank you
Rohit Varma, MD, MPH
rohit.varma@med.usc.edu
Keckmedicine.org
@KeckMedUSC
USCEye.org
@USCEye