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Sullivan County Public Health Services Telehealth Program Interventions to Reduce Re-Hospitalizations SC PHS Telehealth Program • Telehealth is designed to use technology to provide adjunctive education to patients and their family about their disease entity. • Provides additional objective data which the healthcare provider can use to adjust medications, and monitor the patient’s progress. SC PHS Telehealth Program • Nationwide, the use of telehealth technology is widely available. • The VA instituted telehealth regionally in 2003 and nationally in 2007. Currently, the VA program has 50,000 patients enrolled in their Telehealth Programs. SC PHS Telehealth Program • For CHHA patients, the targeted diagnoses are: coronary artery disease, hypertension, congestive heart disease, post coronary bypass graft (CABG)and diabetes. SC PHS Telehealth Program • Our goal is the reduction of Emergency Room utilization and/or unnecessary re-hospitalizations, • For SCPHS this will translate to increased continuity of care of the patient. SC PHS Telehealth Program • In the future we hope to obtain a grant to offer telehealth monitoring to antepartum women with gestational diabetes and/or pregnancy induced hypertension. • For this demographic we will use cell phones to transmit the TH information. SC PHS Telehealth Program • Currently, the TH program is in the education/marketing stage. • Full implementation of our program is scheduled for mid-July 2012. SC PHS Telehealth Program • SPHNs can help ensure the success of the TH program by: Remind field RNs to identify appropriate potential TH patients. Reminding field RNs to hand in the Telehealth Risk Assessment tool at SOC.