The Arizona Telemedicine Program (ATP) is busy organizing their first annual Telemedicine and Telehealth Service Provider Showcase to be held October 6-7, 2014 in Phoenix Arizona. The Showcase will focus on building partnerships to help bring quality medical specialty services directly into hospitals, clinics, private practices, and into homes. The goal is to improve patient care, outcomes, and increase market share for both healthcare providers and telehealth service providers.
The Showcase will be co-hosted by ATP, the Southwest Telehealth Resource Center, and the Four Corners Telehealth Consortium which includes the Arizona Health Sciences Center at the University of Arizona, University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus, the University of New Mexico Health Sciences Center, and the University of Utah Health Care.
“There is a huge pent-up demand for telemedicine and telehealth services in the U.S and worldwide. The problem is matching up service providers with patients who often are separated by economic or geographic barriers,” said Ronald S. Weinstein, MD, Co-Founder of ATP, and President Emeritus of the American Telemedicine Association.
The Showcase will offer a broad array of telemedical specialty services and models in a single expo hall, and provide a forum for seeing and discussing the latest trends in clinical telehealth. Attendees will receive a wealth of practical information for both healthcare providers and telehealth service vendors.
The over 300 to 400 attendees expected will include national and state government officials and policy makers, corporate executives exploring telemedicine, telehealth, and mobile health, hospital and healthcare administrators, telehealth legal, regulatory, and reimbursement managers, telemedicine and telehealth service providers, physicians and nurses in private practice, patient navigators and advocates, healthcare consumers, and telemedicine/telehealth equipment and solutions vendors.
“There is no doubt that the challenge to make telemedicine successful on a large scale is to develop relationships between telemedicine service providers, patients, and service end users,” said Dale C. Alverson MD, Founder of the New Mexico Telehealth Alliance and Past President of ATA.
He added, “That problem has been largely solved for teleradiology, telestroke, and remote coverage of intensive care unit beds. I estimate that leaves about 60 medical specialties in need of jump starts. The Showcase will be measured in terms of additional telemedicine services going mainstream in the near future.”
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