The Steering Committee on Telehealth and Healthcare Informatics recently hosted a briefing titled “Advances in Telemedicine: Lessons to be Learned Going Forward into an e-Enabled Healthcare Environment”.

The lunch briefing provided an overview of current issues and opportunities in Telemedicine, and focused on the adoption, implementation and policy lessons as we go forward into a new technology-enabled healthcare environment. Some of the questions that were discussed during the lunch seminar include: How does Telemedicine relate to the electronic medical record and to healthcare information exchange? What is the state, federal and private sector policy agenda for the next several years?

Presenters Included:
• Neal Neuberger, Executive Director, Institute for e-Health Policy (Moderator)
• Jonathan Linkous, Chief Executive Officer, American Telemedicine Association
• Jay H. Sanders, M.D. President and CEO, The Global Telemedicine Group
• Stuart Ferguson, Ph.D. and John Kokesh, Alaska Native Tribal Health Consortium
• Walt Grant, Director of Government Affairs and IT Integration, INRange Systems, Inc.

Click below to watch NextGenWeb video coverage of the briefing

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