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Digital Health in the Rural American West: Improving Population Health – From Anywhere, at Anytime
Date
Mon May 13th 2019, 12:00am
Location
Paul & Mildred Berg Hall
Li Ka Shing Center
291 Campus Drive
Stanford, CA 94305
Li Ka Shing Center
291 Campus Drive
Stanford, CA 94305
Join us for an interdisciplinary workshop exploring the potential and challenges of deploying digital health technologies more widely in the Rural American West. This often-overlooked region is characterized by vast distances, scarcity of care, and even fewer specialist providers. Co-hosted by Stanford Medicine and the Bill Lane Center for the American West, this one-day event seeks to examine how digital health technologies and policy can help address disparities in access, and treat specific health care crises such as opioid addiction, obesity, and mental health.
For questions please email: medevents [at] stanford.edu (medevents[at]stanford[dot]edu)
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8:00–9:00 am | Check in and Breakfast |
9:00–9:15 am | Welcome |
9:15 – 10:00am | Panel 1: Optimizing Digital Health to Improve Population Health Identify and map digital health resources to population needs. Overcome non-clinical barriers to maximize health outcomes. Mobilize local communities to extend care team reach
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10:00 – 10:45am | Panel 2: Health Challenges in the Rural West: Opportunities for Digital Health Discuss the twin epidemic health challenges (obesity and diabetes), and how digital health approaches can be used to prevent and combat the diseases, especially in the rural west – challenged by access to healthcare resources and technology.
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10:45–11:00 am | Break |
11:00–11:45 am | Panel 3: Bridging the Gap — How Digital Health Can Help Alleviate Mental Health Crises Optimizing and expanding the use of technology and digital reality tools to expand access to treatment options to combat mental health challenges, particularly in underserved and geographically remote communities.
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11:45 – 12:15 pm |
Fireside Chat: Lessons From the Field
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12:15–1:30 pm | Lunch |
1:30–2:15 pm | Panel 4: Digital Health Technology — A Systems Approach Drawing upon models of care deployed in Denmark and in some Midwestern United States, this panel explores how telemedicine can be quickly deployed to serve both urban and remote populations across the American West. The objective in every case is to provide patient-centered care in a cost-conscious system, in which each provider delivers services at the top of their license, optimizing efficiency, access, and job satisfaction.
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2:15–3:00 pm | Panel 5: Advancing Health Policy to Advance Digital Health Is our current national and state health policy keeping pace with advances in digital health? Key challenges (access, privacy, cost, financial) and opportunities to align health policy with rapidly changing technology and increasing demands by consumers to access health care digitally.
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3:00–3:15 pm | Wrap-Up
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