Strategic Management of Large Scale Telehealth Networks
Track
:
Operations, Business & Finance
Program Code:
44
Date:
Tuesday, May 18, 2010
Time:
10:30 AM to 11:30 AM
EST
Location:
217A
MODERATOR
:
Ed Brown, MD, Chief Executive Officer, Ontario Telemedicine Network
Dr. Brown is the Chief Executive Officer of the Ontario Telemedicine Network. An emergency physician who studied mathematics and engineering before embarking on his medical career, Dr. Brown combined these skills in 1998 when he founded NORTH Network. NORTH Network evolved out of Dr. Brown’s examination of how telemedicine could alleviate the barriers to accessing health care posed by distance and a shortage of health professionals in Northern Ontario into a comprehensive telemedicine program connecting thousands of patients with health care providers.
SPEAKER
(S):
Stewart Ferguson, PhD, Director, Alaska Federal Health Care Access Network (AFHCAN)
Stewart Ferguson Ph.D. is Director of the Alaska Federal Health Care Access Network (AFHCAN) in Anchorage, Alaska with deployments throughout Alaska, the United States, and multiple other countries. Dr. Ferguson has over twenty years of progressive computer and research experience in academic, industrial, biomedical and business environments. He has been involved in software development for CT scanners, theoretical solutions for the forward and inverse problems in biomagnetism, and imaging techniques for cardiac activity. He currently serves on the Board of the ATA. He holds M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Biomedical Engineering, and B.S. degrees in both Mathematics and Electrical Engineering.
Curtis Lowery, MD, Director, ANGELS / Center for Distance H, University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences
The Chairperson for the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences’ Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Dr. Curtis Lowery is a champion of antenatal and neonatal telemedicine benefiting the patient and physician alike. Dr. Lowery facilitated the process in which Arkansas insurance handles telemedicine, increased Medicaid reimbursements and promoted understanding for telemedicine, and brought telehealth access to over 60 hospitals and community clinics in rural Arkansas providing medical consultations with provider and patient education. Dr. Lowery directs ANGELS, a Medicaid-funded, cost-effective programmatic solution to assist Arkansas’ high-risk pregnancies, as well as the Center for Distance Health, a multidisciplinary telemedicine initiative.
Ron Risenbach, BSc, MSc, MBA, P.Eng, Vice President of Emerging Business, Ontario Telemedicine Network
Ron Riesenbach is a senior executive with the Ontario Telemedicine Network - one of North America’s largest and most successful telemedicine networks. OTN enables over 6,000 videoconference-based clinical consults per month as well as provides healthcare professionals with store-forward and telehomecare services. As VP of Emerging Business, Ron leads an initiative to bring to market the innovative Telemedicine solutions developed by OTN over 10 years of rapid growth.