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The Role of Telehealth
in Accountable Care
HealthLINC Conference
Bloomington, IN
February 17, 2011
Alan Snell, MD,MMM
Chief Medical Informatics Officer
St. Vincent Health, Indianapolis
Email: [email protected]
317-583-3248
St. Vincent Health
An Ascension Health Ministry
1 St. Vincent New Hope
2 Saint John’s Health System
3 St. Joseph - Kokomo
St. Joseph
FY 2011 Stats
Total Admissions:
64,828
Total ER Visits:
240,572
Total Ambulatory Visits:
2,776,895
Total Births:
6,629
Total Beds:
1,751
Gross Revenue:
$5,171,730,145
Elkhart
Lagrange
Steuben
4 St. Vincent Indianapolis
Noble
De Kalb
5 St. Vincent Stress Center
La Porte
Porter
Lake
Marshall
Starke
Whitley
Fulton
Jasper
6 Seton Specialty Hospital- LTAC
Kosciusko
Allen
Pulaski
Wabash
Newton
Cass
Huntington
Adams
Wells
Miami
White
Benton
Carroll
Howard Grant
Warren
3
Clinton
Tippecanoe
1
1
2Fountain Montgomery Boone
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1
5
Tipton
2
Jay
10 St. Vincent Heart Center
Delaware
1
7
Wayne
Madison
Randolph
Hamilton
Henry
1,4,5,6,
Hancock
7,8,9,10
Marion
Putnam
Parke
Union
Rush
11
Vigo
Morgan
Franklin
Decatur
18
Monroe
Sullivan
Bartholomew
Dearborn
Brown
Greene
Jackson
Lawrence
Daviess
Knox
Fayette
1
Jennings
6
Ripley
Jefferson
14
Martin
11 St. Vincent Clay CAH
12 St. Vincent Williamsport CAH
Johnson Shelby
Clay
Owen
8 St. Vincent Women’s
9 St. Vincent Carmel
Blackford
Hendricks
Vermillion
7 Peyton Manning Children’s Hosp.
Scott
Ohio
Switzerland
13 St. Vincent Frankfort CAH
14 St. Vincent Salem CAH
15 St. Vincent Mercy, Elwood CAH
16 St. Vincent Jennings CAH
Orange Washington
Clark
Pike
Dubois
Gibson
1 WarrickSpencer
Vanderburgh
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Posey
Crawford
Perry
17 St. Vincent Randolph CAH
Floyd
Harrison
18 St. Vincent Dunn CAH
19 St. Mary’s, Evansville- 2 hospitals
(Ascension Health)
Ascension Health is the largest Catholic and non-profit health
system in the United States, with more than 500 locations in 20
states and the District of Columbia.
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Telehealth Includes:
Patient-Caregiver Virtual Visits
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Telehealth Includes:
Monitoring in the Home
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Telehealth Includes:
Store-and-Forward
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Telehealth Includes:
Education
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Ascension Health Telehealth Inventory:
36 Programs Across 21 Health Ministries
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Breakdown
Video Consultation: n = 17 (47%)
Teletranslation: n = 8 (23%)
Home Teleheatlh: n = 6 (17%)
Call Center: n = 3 (9%)
Education: n = 2 (6%)
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*Numbered in alphabetical order by State and City
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Veterans Affairs (VA) Telehealth:
Critical Mass Driving Significant Value
Video
Consults
1 Year
7 Years
Research & Refinement Dissemination & Implementation
4,700 Patients
3 Years
Store &
Forward
75,000 Patients
7 Years
Research & Refinement
Dissemination & Implementation
3,000 Patients
Home
Telehealth
3 Years
160,000 Patients
8 Years
Research & Refinement
3,000 Patients
Dissemination & Implementation
55,000 Patients
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The average annual cost for a VA home telehealth patient is $1,600
compared to $27,000 for a comparable level of institutionalized care
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Telehealth Value in Different
Business/Reimbursement Models
Business Model
Current Environment:
Primarily Fee-ForService (FFS)
Clinical Use Case Applications of Telehealth
FFS with ValueBased Purchasing
Use cases listed above plus:
Population Health
Management
Use cases listed in each category above plus:
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Specialist consultations for patients in rural areas
Provider-to-provider consultations
Teleradiology consultations
Access to primary care/urgent care
Teletranslation services
Provider education
 Transitional care for patients with chronic disease
 Long term care triage
 Chronic disease management not connected to a
hospitalization
 Screening and prevention
 Health risk assessments
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 Consumer education/engagement/ health
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maintenance
Beacon Communities Program Overview
• Central Indiana was one of 17 communities selected
• The Beacon Program will support these communities to
build and strengthen their health IT infrastructure and
exchange capabilities.
• The program’s intent is to improve health through
information technology while supporting job creation.
Focusing on specific and measurable improvement goals
in three vital areas for health system improvement:
 Quality
 Cost Efficiency
 Population Health
• Indiana Health Information Exchange, as the lead
organization, received a $16.1 million award to develop
the 3 year program.
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Indiana Beacon Objectives - Quantified
Objective
Measure
HbA1c levels
Increase by 10% the proportion of patients whose
A1C levels are <=9%
LDL-C levels
Increase by 10% the proportion of patients whose
LDL-C levels are controlled
ACSC Admissions
Reduce by 3%
ACSC Re-Admissions
Reduce by 10%
ACSC-related ED visits
Reduce by 3%
Redundant imaging
Reduce by 10%
Colorectal Cancer
Screening
5%  in proportion of patients screened
Cervical Cancer Screening
5%  in proportion of patients screened
Immunization Data
Increase by 5% amt. of adult imms data available
Meaningful Use
Achieved by 60% of Primary Care Physicians
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Facts about
Congestive Heart Failure
• Congestive heart failure (CHF) is the most common
Medicare DRG accounting for more costs than any other
condition.
• 30 day readmission rate for patients with CHF is 21%
nationally
• Behavioral factors, such as noncompliance with
medications, lack of timely follow up visits and social
factors frequently contribute to early readmissions,
suggesting that many such readmissions could be
prevented
• Total annual healthcare expenditure for both
direct and indirect healthcare cost of CHF
approximates $28 Billion
(http://content.onlinejacc.org)
Hospital Readmission Reduction Program
• Allocated funding or estimated cost: $7.1 billion in
estimated federal savings
• Effective date: Oct.1, 2012 (data collection started
10/1/11)
• Provision authority: Health and Human Services
secretary
• Scope of jurisdiction: Medicare; nationwide
• Requirements: HHS secretary to develop
calculations for hospital's readmission payment
reduction and publicize hospital readmission rates
Effect of Tele-monitoring on
Reducing Readmissions
A Randomized Study of Short-term Post-Discharge
Chronic Disease Management with Tele-monitoring
and Nurse Telephone Support
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Goals & Objectives
• Reduce readmissions for patients with Congestive
Heart Failure (CHF) and Chronic Obstructive
Pulmonary Disease (COPD)
• Multidisciplinary treatment approach for early
intervention for patients at high risk
• Include hospitals representing diversity in size and
geographical locations
• Enroll patients immediately post-discharge for 30 days
( December 2010 – December 2012 )
Home Monitoring Vendor Selection
• Transformation Development Department at Ascension
assisted in developing technology selection criteria
• Eight vendors were invited to bid, four presented to the
selection committee and Care Innovation’s Health Guide
was awarded the offer.
Care Innovations
Health Guide
• Allows for video
conferencing with the
nurse contact center.
• Provides health
educational learning
sessions
• Monitors daily bio-metric
readings (BP, O2 sat,
weight)
• Interacts with the patient
daily inquiring about health
status
Participating Hospitals
St. Vincent Health sites:
• St. Vincent Indianapolis
• St. Vincent Heart Center
• St. Vincent Carmel
• St. Johns Hospital (Anderson)
• St. Joseph Hospital (Kokomo)
• 3 St. Vincent Critical Access Hospitals
Non- St. Vincent Health participating sites:
• Columbus Regional Hospital (Columbus)
• Hancock Regional (Greenfield)
• Henry County Hospital (New Castle)
• Witham Hospital (Lebanon)
• Wishard Hospital (Indianapolis)
Baseline ReadmissionsInitial Participating Hospitals
Source: Indiana Hospital Association 2009 reported data
Enrollment Process
•Hospital Study Coordinator offers
and completes study informed
consent
Consents
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•Randomization into
study group
(Randomized by
Study Site and Prin
Dx)
• Patient enrollment
form completed
• Physician notified
•SVH Contact Center
arranges device
deployment
•SVH Contact Center
completes patient enrollment
•50%
•R
•50%
•Complete Study Protocol
•N •Not in study
Source: Care Innovations 2011 by permission only
Source: Care Innovations 2011 by permission only
Source: Care Innovations 2011 by permission only
Accomplishments
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Establish baseline data for participating hospitals
Obtain IRB approval (Indiana University and St. Vincent)
Integrate with hospital discharge planning
Selected device vendor
Prepared site hospital teams
Selected/trained equipment management company
Selected/trained RNs with cardiac care or ICU
experience
• Clinical protocols developed
• Communication materials developed (patient welcome
video; physician letter, patient, and nurse resources)
First Year Processes
• Qualify patients & enroll in study
• All patients randomized into either Control
Group or Intervention Group
• Device deployment & retrieval in the home
• Daily interaction and monitoring of patients
• Discharge patients from the study after 30 days
• Pre and Post survey instrument “Patient
Activation Measure” (PAM). Univ. Oregon;
Judith Hibbard
Preliminary PAM
Survey Results
Control
1. I am responsible for my health
2. I can reduce my health problems
3. I know what my medications do
4. I know when I need to call a doctor
5. I can follow through on medical treatments
6. I know the treatments available
7. I have kept up with lifestyle changes
8. I can find solutions to new problems
9. I can maintain changes during stressful times
Intervention
Goals for 2012-13
• Continue enrollment in randomized trial till Dec 2012
• Identify best practices, refine program
• Recruit additional patients outside research trial
 Other chronic diseases
 Accept referrals from providers, hospitals, home
health agencies
 Longer monitoring periods
 High Risk patients not currently hospitalized
 Different care settings- long term care, assisted living
• Jan-Mar 2013- Program evaluation and dissemination of
results to stakeholders and other Beacon programs
Conclusions
• Challenges
 Recruiting patients
 Research study restrictions
 Lack of physician involvement
• Potential Contributions
 Cost analysis of early intervention to prevent
readmissions and ED visits
 Examination of mediating variables: patient
compliance and behavior
 Telemonitoring study with additional social
support
“Whole System Demonstrator
Programme” results released Dec.2011
National Health Service in the United Kingdom
randomized 6,191 patients from 238 practices to be
monitored in their homes.
First year preliminary findings show:
• 15% reduction in A&E visits (similar to our E&M)
• 20% reduction in emergency admissions
• 14% reduction in elective admissions
• 14% reduction in bed days
• 8% reduction in tarriff costs
• Most striking was a 45% reduction in mortality rates
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CMS Innovation Challenge Grant
CMS Center for Innovation was funded with $10 Billion from
Patient Protection Act of 2010
• $1 Billion in grant awards announced in Dec. 2011, ranging
from $1 million minimum to $30 million max over 3 years
• Challenge Grant required:
• Innovative model to meet the Triple Aim (Berwick 2009)
• Better Health, Better Healthcare, Lower Cost
• Alternative Payment Model
• Workforce Development Plan
• Six month rapid deployment with measureable impact
• Financial Plan to demonstrate cost savings over 3 years that exceeds
amount of award
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Target Populations
• High Cost- use data analytic tools to identify based on clinical
data and utilization data or claims data
• High Risk- use predictive modeling to identify based on
current conditions, baseline utilization, history of multiple risk
factors
• Will Target “Avoidable Events”
• Inpatient Admissions for Ambulatory Care Sensitive Conditions (ACSC)
• Reduce Readmissions- target CHF, COPD, Acute MI, Pneumonia
• Reduce Inappropriate Emergency Dept visits (use Prudent Lay Person
criteria)
• Reduce Premature Births- target high-risk pregnancies with prior
history of premature births and/or multiple gestation
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Care Coordination Vision
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CAUTION!
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Questions?