UC and UC Health to Host Third Annual National Telehealth Conference

CINCINNATI—The University of Cincinnati College of Nursing, UC Health and other local and regional partners will host the third annual National Telehealth Conference March 24-25, 2016. This year’s theme is "Realizing Value in a Rapidly Changing Environment.”

The event, with six specialized tracks each day, offers a unique format allowing attendees the opportunity to examine innovative telehealth programs, how they are established and how these programs are sustained. A new track being offered this year focuses on pediatrics.

Sessions will be held at the UC College of Nursing, Procter Hall, 3110 Vine Street, Cincinnati.                     

The experiential learning nature of this conference provides health care providers, administrators, faculty and other innovators the opportunity to review telehealth applications in action. There are engaging sessions for telehealth novices to advanced providers looking for new partnership ideas and outcomes that may be incorporated into their own operations.

Speakers include UC Academic Health Center faculty and UC Health clinicians and administrators, as well as other national experts from eight different states, including Alaska. Opening remarks will be provided by Dean Greer Glazer, PhD, UC College of Nursing; Dean William Ball, MD, UC College of Medicine; and Richard Lofgren, MD, UC Health president and CEO.

Allison Heddon, manager and co-lead, Center for Clinical Technology will present the keynote address, "Virtual Health Taking the Next Step.”

Heddon leads Sg2’s Virtual Care Strategy division, focusing on emerging virtual health technologies and their impact on care delivery. Based in Skokie, Illinois, the firm’s analytics-based health care expertise helps hospitals and health systems integrate, prioritize and drive growth and performance across the continuum of care.

For the second straight year, scholarships are available for some conference attendees. UC Health leadership is offering five scholarships for employees of UC Health to attend the conference free of charge. Four of the five scholarship attendees who went last year ended up leading their team to develop a telehealth pilot within their program.

Student scholarships are also available this year, in part due to the positive response from last year. One scholarship student from 2015 requested a scholarship again this year, saying he enjoyed last year’s conference so much that he plans to pursue a career path in telehealth.

Regular registration is $150 per person and includes breakfast, lunch and break refreshments. Conference partner affiliates may attend for a rate of $100.

Other conference partners include UC College of Medicine, Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) Medical Center, Maple Knoll Communities and the Upper Midwest Telehealth Resource Center.

An application has been submitted for Continuing Medical Education (CME) credits for nurses attending the conference.

Learn more about the event and register at www.nationaltelehealthconference.com.