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First there was telestroke, which starting in July 2014<\/a> connected fellowship-trained neurologists based at UCHealth Metro Denver (University of Colorado Hospital) with emergency department physicians at UCHealth Colorado Springs (Memorial Hospital).<\/p>\n

Eighteen months later, UCHealth\u2019s second telehealth program is set to launch on Dec. 8. The Tele-MS program, a pilot that also involves a fellowship-trained neurologist, differs starkly from its predecessor \u2013 not only in terms of how it will help patients, but also in its potential to open the telehealth doors to other UCHealth services.<\/p>\n

Telestroke is an emergency service \u2013 the idea being to speed stroke diagnosis and get clot-busting tPA into a patient\u2019s bloodstream as quickly as possible. Tele-MS is an outpatient service involving a disease that creeps in for years. The goal isn\u2019t instant access to subspecialist expertise. It\u2019s access, period.<\/p>\n

Up the road<\/strong><\/p>\n

Augusto Miravalle, MD, a University of Colorado School of Medicine neurologist specializing in multiple sclerosis and related neuro-immunological diseases, is at the center of UCHealth\u2019s new Tele-MS program. While the telehealth system enabling Tele-MS would work across oceans, the Tele-MS \u201crobot\u201d through which Miravalle will see patients will be a five-minute drive from UCHealth\u2019s Anschutz Medical Campus \u2013 at North Aurora Family Health Services at Peoria Street and 33rd Avenue. It\u2019s a Metro Community Provider Network (MCPN) clinic, which serves patients in federal Medicare and Medicaid programs as well as the uninsured.<\/p>\n

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Neurologist Augusto Miravalle, MD, left, and IT specialist Dave Severenuk with a prototype Tele-MS robot.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Miravalle already drives over to see MS patients there during a half-day clinic once a month. He\u2019ll keep that schedule, as he has for five years. But he will add a second half-day clinic via Tele-MS. That\u2019s a big deal, said Tom Stewart, PA, an MCPN physician assistant who specializes in MS patients at the Aurora clinic.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis will effectively double the access that patients have to his expertise,\u201d Stewart said.\u00a0 \u201cInstead of waiting a month, we can get going much more quickly.\u201d<\/p>\n

Time is of the essence in MS, too. Often, a diagnosis doesn\u2019t happen for a decade after the onset of symptoms. Access issues are a big part of that, Miravalle said, because the sort of subspecialist expertise it takes to diagnose and treat MS isn\u2019t typically available at federally qualified health care clinics like MCPN.<\/p>\n

\u201cHopefully, we can diagnose it earlier, treat it earlier, and have significantly better outcomes,\u201d Miravalle said.<\/p>\n

The extra patient consults Tele-MS enables should also give existing patients more frequent access to Miravalle, said Alexandra Hempel, RN, UCHealth\u2019s Tele-MS liaison with MCPN.<\/p>\n

\u201cOur goal is to have our patients see him at least once a year, or more often if their status changes,\u201d Hempel said.<\/p>\n

Custom-built<\/strong><\/p>\n

The technology behind the Tele-MS program is straightforward, as health IT goes. Miravalle will connect via laptop using Vidyo<\/a> telehealth software. At the MCPN office, there\u2019s a cart with a computer, a monitor, a camera, a speaker phone, and a battery big enough to sustain the system for eight hours. The MCPN system will connect with Miravalle\u2019s via standard wi-fi, said David Severenuk, the UCHealth system architect who integrated the off-the-shelf parts that comprise the Tele-MS system. The system costs about $8,000 \u2013 probably a quarter of the price of a vendor-built option, Severenuk said.<\/p>\n

That doesn\u2019t include a high-end digital ophthalmoscope capable of imaging a patient\u2019s optic nerves, which a grant from the Anschutz Foundation to the Rocky Mountain MS Center at Anschutz Medical Campus paid for, Miravalle said.<\/p>\n

But the hardware and software are only the beginning. \u201cThe technology is maybe 10 percent of the overall effort when it comes to telehealth,\u201d Miravalle said.<\/p>\n

The other 90 percent is people and process, said Kathy Deanda, RN, MSN, UCHealth\u2019s Telehealth program director. The Tele-MS program, in addition to providing MS patients at MCPN better access to Miravalle\u2019s expertise, is a pilot whose lessons will inform future UCHealth telehealth services. Tele-MS will help UCHealth understand telehealth\u2019s impact on physician scheduling and patient preparation, and it will help Deanda and colleagues establish standards for telehealth referrals from primary care physicians and others. They\u2019ll also be tracking patient-reported outcomes from several perspectives (ranging from fatigue to medication use to their ability to work) as well as patient and provider satisfaction, and comparing the Tele-MS results with those of standard office visits.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019re going to test it out to see what works and what doesn\u2019t and create some standards and processes that we can then expand to the other subspecialties that are interested,\u201d Deanda said.<\/p>\n

Also, unlike telestroke, where the remote neurologist advises an emergency room physician who makes the actual care decisions, Tele-MS involves a direct patient-physician relationship\u00a0 (a relationship that can now commence via telehealth, according to a new policy the Colorado Medical Board set on Aug. 20). That\u2019s a big step for advancing telehealth across Colorado, Deanda said.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s been a watershed year for Colorado telehealth policy. Gov. John Hickenlooper on March 20 signed legislation<\/a> to end state regulations that restricted telehealth delivery to rural counties. The act also forbade insurers from requiring in-person care delivery when telemedicine is a viable alternative. The law goes into effect on Jan. 1, 2017. With the pilot, Miravalle said, \u201cwe\u2019ll be ready to roll to larger patient volumes and different sites.\u201d<\/p>\n

With Tele-MS, those sites could include other MCPN clinics or ones farther afield. MCPN\u2019s Stewart said he\u2019d like to see the system helping MS patients in rural clinics.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019re a test bed for other organizations with similar patient populations,\u201d Stewart said.<\/p>\n

Similarly, the Tele-MS pilot is a test bed for other UCHealth subspecialties considering telehealth, Deanda said, including dermatology and rheumatology. Telehealth also shows promise in extending the reach of UCHealth expertise and keeping health care costs in check.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think overall it will decrease costs and increase efficiency,\u201d Miravalle said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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