Dr. Connie Guille from the MUSC COE presented at the June COE webinar! Her presentation, Improving Systems of Care for Perinatal Mental Health and Substance Use Disorders, can be accessed here.
Author: Rebecca Verdin
Telehealth Payment Parity Technical Assistance Template!
The MUSC COE team is excited to announce the availability of a Telehealth Payment Parity technical assistance document and supporting Excel template! Developed by Dr. Dunc Williams, Jr., and a team from MUSC, the tool aims to enhance medical claims data evaluation relative to the provision of telehealth and in comparison to in-person services. This practical tool may benefit a variety of stakeholders, including health system and physician practice providers and operators, as well as payers.
Puerto Rico Telehealth Symposium Held on Jan. 17
Dr. Regan Stewart and Dr. Rosaura Orengo-Aguayo from the MUSC COE presented at the Puerto Rico Telehealth Symposium on January 17th, 2024. The symposium was hosted by the Southeastern Telehealth Resource Center (SETRC). Telehealth champions from the public sector, government, public/private hospital systems, clinics, emergency responders, academia, and researchers shared their efforts and formulated plans for expansion on the island of Puerto Rico in 2024.
- View Drs. Stewart and Orengo-Aguayo’s presentation (note: presentation is in Spanish)
- Visit the Puerto Rico symposium page
Members from the MUSC Telehealth Center of Excellence Team Present at USCHA 2023
Members from the MUSC COE team and SC DHEC team presented at the 2023 US Conference on HIV/AIDS held September 6-9 in DC! This year's theme was A Love Letter to Black Women, and DHEC's Rasia White noted, "It was truly inspiring and empowering, especially to see so many women who looked like me being recognized for navigating effective strategies for ending the HIV epidemic. I appreciated the transparency of women living with HIV as they shared their stories that at times exhibited feelings of despair, but ended with their sharing of resilience and triumph. I am encouraged, and I am refreshed to continue our innovative efforts on the road to ending the HIV epidemic!"
Dr. Marty Player (Associate Professor of Family Medicine, MUSC) presented on the team's work implementing a TelePrEP program in rural South Carolina.
Initiation and Evaluation of a Telemedicine Program for HIV Pre-exposure Prophylaxis (TelePrEP) in Rural South Carolina | Player, MD, MSCR; Diaz, MD, MSCR; Robinson, DNP, APRN, WHNP-BC
Rasia White and Johnna Williams-Gardner (SC DHEC) presented on a pilot project for implementing electronic consent to enroll clients in DHEC's Data-to-Care program.
Piloting e-Consent for South Carolina's Data-to-Care Program | White, Gardner, Gaskin, Meissner, Kruis, Verdin, Tanyi
MUSC Implementation Science Telehealth Toolkit Published!
Members from the interdisciplinary evaluation team of the MUSC Telehealth Center of Excellence (COE) recently published an implementation science telehealth toolkit. The purpose of this toolkit is to guide clinical and research teams in the development and conduct of dissemination and implementation evaluations for new and existing telehealth programs. The toolkit includes separate sections to match the steps in an implementation science research project or telehealth program evaluation and is intended to be utilized in dynamic fashion to meet changing health care needs. There are also links in the toolkit to external dissemination and implementation resources that can support these evaluations. Click Here to Access the Toolkit
CDC Publishes Field Note About MUSC’s Telestroke Program
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Division of Heart Disease and Stroke Prevention selected the Medical University of South Carolina (MUSC) Center for Telehealth’s Telestroke Program to participate in an Evaluability Assessment (EA) conducted by NORC at the University of Chicago. The EA was conducted as part of the selection process to be chosen to participate in a CDC-supported rigorous evaluation of MUSC’s telestroke strategy, which is currently underway and being conducted in collaboration with the MUSC COE team. Following the EA, the CDC published a field note showcasing an overview, program components, implementation, and the impact of MUSC’s Telestroke program.
REGISTER NOW! COE Webinar Series: Telehealth Centers of Excellence Website
The Telehealth Centers of Excellence, a HRSA-funded collaboration with the Medical University of South Carolina and the University of Mississippi Medical Center, will highlight the features of their new website!
Date: February 22, 2023
Time: 2:00 EST / 1:00 CST
Register Here
More Event Info Here
Members from the MUSC Telehealth Center of Excellence Team presented findings at the International Conference on Health Policy Statistics
Members from the MUSC Telehealth Center of Excellence team presented findings at the International Conference on Health Policy Statistics held January 9-11 in Scottsdale, AZ. The theme of the conference was Upgrading the Pipeline from Health Data to Health Policy, providing the MUSC COE a unique opportunity to discuss methods for managing and analyzing telehealth data and using telehealth data to inform policy.
Ryan Kruis (Director, Research & Grants, Center for Telehealth) presented the team’s work using claims and administrative data to map utilization of healthcare services to guide strategic deployment of telehealth services to mitigate access to care issues.
Use of health care utilization heatmaps to inform statewide telehealth policy and expansion in South Carolina | Kruis, MSW; M. Dooley, PhD; A. Simpson, PhD; K. Simpson, DrPH; J. McElligott, MD, MSCR
Dr. Daniel Brinton (Assistant Professor, College of Health Professions) presented innovative methods for combining intensive care EHR data to aid outcome analysis. These methods have been used on a number of COE ICU projects.
Matching irregular EHR intensive care data to create an accurate & analyzable dataset | Brinton, PhD; A. Goodwin, MD, MSCR; Annie Simpson, PhD
Both presentations were met with great enthusiasm among conference participants, which included leading experts on the use of data and statistics to analyze and inform health policy.
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