Heberden School of Telemedicine
William Heberden School of Telemedicine
Implementation of Robotic and Portal-based Telemedicine Services
at Six Rural Hospitals and two Skilled Nursing Facilities in Northern California.
In partnership with Palm Drive Hospital, OffSiteCare is pleased to present a two-day educational program on robotic telemedicine for clinicians, nurses, and other healthcare professionals. The program is offered semi-annually, in January and June, and provides comprehensive training on extending consultative critical care, stroke intervention, infectious disease control, and other specialty medicine services to rural ICUs, ERs and wards. Classes cover a broad range of subjects, and include hands-on training for operating the InTouch RP-7 robot.
Presented at the Solomon Telemedicine Hub, Palm Drive Hospital, Sebastopol, California.
Tuition:
$300 per person. Please note: CME credit is available for RNs.
Curriculum:
Representative topic list (subject to change)
- Nocturnist applications for robotic telemedicine
- Hospitalist applications of telemedicine in rural hospitals
- Emergency Room applications for robotic telemedicine
- Adult and Pediatric Critical Care consultations
- Acute Stroke Intervention and General Neurology consultations
- Treatment and management of Infectious Diseases
- Robotic and Physical Exam regarding inspection, auscultation, and ultrasound use in the ICU, ER, and Medical Ward
- Electronic Medical Records (EMRs) and telemedicine — a natural pairing
- Telemedicine billing techniques for rural medical facilities
- Medical Education programs, including weekly one-hour CME/CE-Accredited Grand Rounds presentations
- Per-incident ICU consultations from a high-acuity national intensivist call panel
- Nephrology consultations and care, including dialysis over the Internet
- Trauma Center applications for telemedicine
- Consultative care via telemedicine in SNFs, schools, prisons, and other facilities
- International telemedicine programs for underserved areas worldwide
- Hands-on training on driving and operating the medical robot in the ICU, ER, and Medical Ward
OffSiteCare believes that all people have the right to the best medical care, regardless of where they live. To achieve the democratization of health care, our focus is to use the power of telemedicine to provide consultations with expert intensivists, neurologists, and other specialists to patients in underserved communities worldwide.