Reference Materials

Read the Final Report of the Maryland THTM Roundtable, released in its final form in January 2011.

This report is an expanded version of the Interim Report, released in September 2010, which was based on the results of the survey up to that date.

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Read about the RMC's 2008 Rural Health Roundtable and the follow-up Rural Health Roundtable Summary Report

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Read about the RMC's 2009 Statewide Telehealth Roundtable and the follow-up 2009 Telehealth Roundtable Summary Report

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Read the SORH's Maryland Rural Health Plan, released July 2007

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Page updated:
March 20, 2011

The MD Telehealth/Telemedicine Survey Roundtable

When: December 6, 2010
Time: 9 a.m. to 2 p.m.
Where: Maryland Department of Agriculture, 50 Harry S. Truman Parkway, Annapolis

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Read the Final Roundtable Report, which was delivered to the House Health and Government Operations Committee on January 20, 2011. Minor Updates to the report were made on January 26. Read the updated final report.

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The Federation of State Medical Boards held an invitational symposium in Washington, D.C. on March 10, 2011 to discuss the future of telemedicine. More than 100 physicians and lawyers from across the country met to share their experiences, perspectives and ideas. The Rural Maryland Council was fortunate to be invited to this event, along with our partners at the American Heart and Stroke Association. We have prepared a brief overview of the major themes and ideas that were discussed at the symposium that we think are relevant to the efforts to implement a Maryland Telehealth Network. Read the briefing.

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Presentations from the Roundtable are now posted

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Background: The 2007 Maryland Rural Health Plan, released by the State Office of Rural Health (SORH), identified access to primary and specialty care as the top priority for ensuring quality care in rural Maryland. In 2008, the Rural Maryland Council (RMC) and SORH conducted a Rural Health Roundtable to determine actions the RMC could take to help implement at least a portion of the plan. One of the many recommendations to emerge from that event was to create a statewide telehealth consortium that would help those delivering and receiving telehealth/telemedicine (THTM) services to use technology more widely and cost effectively to deliver care across the state.

In February 2009, the RMC and SORH held a statewide Telehealth Roundtable that concluded that a statewide inventory of current THTM projects needed to be undertaken to better understand what the state of THTM was in Maryland before moving forward with a consortium.

In 2010, the Upper Shore Regional Council, an active participant in both Roundtables, as well as a member of the RMC's Health Care Working Committee and Telehealth Subcommittee, obtained a grant to fund this inventory. Administering the survey was sub-contracted to the Maryland Rural Health Association in cooperation with the RMC.

The December 2010 Roundtable will review the results of the survey and consider recommendations for moving forward. An interim report, based on the results gathered as of September 2010, was compiled to begin the discussion

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Maryland Telehealth Roundtable Agenda
See a list of stakeholders who participated in the Roundtable.

Welcome and Greetings:

• 9:00 a.m. to 9:30 a.m. - Registration, Coffee and General Networking.
• 9:30 a.m. to 9:40 a.m. -- Welcome and Overview from Vanessa Orlando, Executive Director, Rural Maryland Council.
• 9:40 a.m. to 10 a.m. -- Release of Maryland Telehealth/Telemedicine Survey Results. Presenter: John Dillman, Executive Director, Upper Shore Regional Council. See pdf version.

Discussion of Identified Barriers:

• 10:00 a.m. to 10:45 a.m. - Legal Impediments to Telehealth/Telemedicine Implementation. Presenters: Diane E. Hoffmann, Professor of Law, Associate Dean for Academic Programs; Director, Law & Health Care Program, University of Maryland School of Law; and Virginia Rowthorn, Managing Director, Law & Health Care Program and Lecturer in Law, University of Maryland School of Law. Read Legal Impediments to the Diffusion of Telemedicine White Paper, developed from the April 2010 Roundtable on Legal Impediments to Telemedicine, University of Maryland School of Law. See the pdf version.
• 10:45 a.m. to 11:15 a.m. New Telehealth Reimbursement Regulations. Presenter: Brian Grady, MD, MS, Director, TeleMental Health, University of Maryland, School of Medicine. See the pdf version.
• 11:15 a.m. to Noon - The Current and Future Status of a High Speed Rural Broadband Network Presenter: Drew Van Dopp, Marketing and Administration, Maryland Broadband Cooperative. See the pdf version

Noon to 12:30 p.m. - Lunch Break.

• 12:30 to 1:00 p.m. - An Update from the Health Quality and Cost Council's Telemedicine Task Force. Presenter: Robert R. Bass, M.D., Executive Director, Maryland Institute for Emergency Medical Services Systems (MIEMSS) See the pdf version.

Discussion of Recommendations

• 1:00 to 1:30 p.m. - Discussion of Recommendations and Next Steps Facilitators: Michelle Clark, Executive Director, Maryland Rural Health Association.

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