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Resource Savings, Family and Societal Benefits of A Statewide Pediatric Telemedicine Program D.D.Fritch-Levens, MSN, MHA, RN Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta

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Resource Savings, Family and Societal Benefits of A Statewide Pediatric

Telemedicine Program

D.D.Fritch-Levens, MSN, MHA, RN

Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta

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Locations

Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta

… at Hughes Spalding… at Scottish Rite… at Egleston

• Children's serves our community with three hospitals and 17 neighborhood locations, including four Immediate Care Centers and a Primary Care Center.

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Current Program Offerings

TELEMEDICINE PROGRAM

Subspecialist at Scottish Rite

Child Protection

TeleEmergency at EG and SRTeleEmergency

EG and SR

Child Protection

Marcus Autism

Subspecialist at Egleston

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Our Patients…Our Community

• We have served 1,372 patients since inception

• 2009: 88• 2010: 461• 2011: 823

• Patients served live in 74 of the Georgia’s 159 counties• All outside of the MSA• Representing 47% of Georgia’s counties.

• 78% of our patients are covered by Medicaid /CMO’s

* 2011 Volume = January-December

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Program Offerings

• Allergy and Immunology (1)

• Cardiology (1)• Child Abuse (3)• Cystic Fibrosis (1)• Emergency (64)• Fetal ECHO (9)• Gastroenterology (1)• Nephrology (2)• Neurology (3)• Orthopedics (1)• Pulmonologist (1)• Rheumatology (1)• Neurosurgery (1)• Endocrinology (1)• Urology (1)

Coming soon…

• General Surgery (2)

CHOA Physician Credentialing

2009 Current Future0

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Specialist

9188

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Growth Since Inception

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Benefits

• Builds stronger statewide relationships

• Convenience• Miles• Hours• Work• School

• Research – Abstract submitted and approved by Pediatric Academic Society

“Resource Savings, Family and Societal Benefits of a Statewide Pediatric Telemedicine Program”.

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Objective

To evaluate the overall resource savings that a Statewide Telemedicine (TM) Program for Children can bring to patients, families and society

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Barriers to Pediatric Sub-Specialty Care

• Limited number of pediatric subspecialists• Regionalization of subspecialists/Distance to care• Access to and limited public transportation• Direct and Indirect costs for seeking care

• Direct costs:• Travel time• Gas and car wear and tear• Medical transports for chronically ill (Medicaid vans

and others)• Indirect Costs/Opportunity Costs

• Time from work• Time from school• Impact on remaining family (caring for other children,

facilitating transport etc)

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Gas Prices

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2011 Data

Year to Date…Per visit: Mean Median

Range

Miles Saved 310 344 72-524

Cost of miles saved $170 $189 $40-$288

Hours Saved Traveling 5.6 6.0 2-9

School days*Children greater than 5 y/o

86% of our patients would have missed school to travel to Atlanta

Work Days Missed*One adult present

>80% of our parents would have missed a full day of work to travel to Atlanta

Overall cost of miles saved: $118,134 (0.55/mile)476 less days of work missed - Impact on Workforce476 less cars in Atlanta - Clean Air

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Summary of Findings

• Telemedicine represents significant direct cost savings in decreased travel time and expenses for patients & families.

• Indirect cost savings include time saved in travel that can be reallocated to school, work or other societal benefits.

• The high use by patients with Medicaid reinforces that telemedicine can improve access to care for this often underserved population.

• Additional benefits can also be seen as Medicaid patients and those needing assistance in travel (from family or others) can have these resources also reallocated.

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Data Collection

Use of data:• Measure by region• Marketing• Benefits to families by Counties

How is the data collected on an ongoing basis?

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Mileage Table

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Daily Reconciliation/Utilization

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Excel Formulas

Miles Saved

Cost of Miles Saved

Time Saved

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Questions?

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Recognition

Resource Savings, Family and Societal Benefits of a Statewide Pediatric Telemedicine Program:

Harold K. Simon, MD, MBA 1,2,3

Daniel A. Hirsh, MD 1,2,3

D.D. Fritch-Levens, RN, MSN, MHA 2

Cyndie Roberson RN 2

Mary Joyce Bacon 2

Linda Cole, RN, MBA 2

Stephanie Fessler, MD 1

Larry A. Greenbaum, MD, PhD 1,2

Michael McConnell, MD 1,2,4

1Department of Pediatrics, Emory University School of Medicine 2Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta

3Department of Emergency Medicine, Emory University 4Sibley Heart Center