Integrating Telemedicine in your Practice

Course Details

In this instructional course we will go over all the pros and cons associated with integrating Telemedicine as well as a review of technologies available to transition or acquire additional patients. Newer telemedicine platforms now integrate with your EMR, allow for billing of Medicare and commercial insurance companies, and is user friendly with a number of features.

Telemedicine, when integrated properly, will be a welcome new feature to your practice and this course will provide you with detailed training on how to integrate Telemedicine into your practice. The following is a brief overview providing a short list of some of the advantages to consider with Telemedicine:

Advantages | Benefits of Telemedicine

• Clinicians can extend their patient base beyond brick-and-mortar facilities, extending hours, and creating new and more convenient models for their patients.
• Improves patient engagement with remote monitoring allowing physician interaction with their patients to engage them in pro-active, self-care.
• Expands access to care to reaches more patients such as the elderly, chronically ill, or remote urban areas.
• Improves clinical workflows and increases practice efficiency, telemedicine reduces practice overhead as patients fill the void for canceled appointments and does not require additional personnel.
• Increases practice revenue.
• Reduces patient and physician costs.
• Improves healthcare quality.

Empire has designed this instructional course for practitioners to review all of the latest technologies available to assist in blending telemedicine within a present practice as well as presenting the various rules and regulation to achieve this integration.  In particular, Empire will educate the attendee on the following considerations to successfully integrate telemedicine in your practice:

• Licensing & Credentialing Requirements for regulatory bodies (FDA & CMS)
• Regulatory Obligation
• Different States (practice to patient)
• State Board of Medicine Permissions – initial requirements
• Other Regulatory Obligations and Privilege (hospital credentialing etc.)
• HIPAA Privacy and Security (employee and software/technologies requirements)
• Technology Requirements & Integration Considerations
• Staff Training
• Ancillary Diagnostic Devices
• Integration with present EMR and Workflows
• Billing and Coding
• Facility Fees and Professional Fees
• Location Billing Services – Reimbursement Scales
• Marketing Essentials
• Patient Onboarding
• Getting Patients to utilize new telemedicine services
• Promoting the Advantages of Telemedicine to Patients

Implementing telemedicine services is not just about the investment in systems and does require knowledge of the laws and the efforts of everyone involved to make it happen.  Practices need to be able to adapt and innovate to be successful in telemedicine and Empire Medical training will give you the necessary knowledge to create new telemedicine services.  If done correctly, telemedicine will add new revenue streams for your practice and increase your bottom line for years to come.

Empire Medical Training utilizes the resources board-certified physicians who perform these telemedicine procedures who will share their numerous years of experience and identify the benefits and pitfalls to ensure success.  They will review all of the topics above as well as the level of integration that works for you.  Transitioning a small or large part of your practice in telemedicine services helps position your practice moving forward.

Telemedicine is growing at over 15% per year and will continue to grow as a new model in healthcare.  We live in a digital age and as technology improves and develops this new aspect of medicine will continue to grow due to advantages to physicians and patients.  Don’t miss out on the latest in medicine – telemedicine and telehealth.

Certification & Course Materials: A Certificate of Completion is awarded to all attendees who successfully complete the course materials and testing.  Attendees receive complimentary access to the color manuals, ancillary materials presented, and administrative forms through our physician portal allowing attendees to begin positioning your practice to incorporate telemedicine upon completion of the training.

This course includes references to present FDA, CMA, and state laws, this new segment of medicine and the requirements can change and be updated by states in the future.  Learn from our expert physician faculty who presently perform telemedicine services routinely and will provide you the invaluable tips on how to optimize these services for your medical practice. 

Join your colleagues and friends by adding new services that benefit both the physicians and patients as well as take advantage of the additional incremental revenue and patient satisfaction for years to come.