Seminar: Does telepsychiatry improve efficiency and outcomes in the emergency department?
Associate Professor Ateev Mehrotra from Harvard Medical School will be joining us by Zoom, offering his insights in ‘Does telepsychiatry improve efficiency and outcomes in the emergency department?’
The COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted the potential benefits of telemedicine during a public health emergency. But telemedicine could care in many ways outside of a pandemic. Hundreds of emergency departments in the United States have introduced telepsychiatry which allows them to get more timely psychiatric input on their patients with mental illness. Using a large database with over 40 million adults, we assess whether the introduction of telepsychiatry has improved care in these emergency departments.
Ateev Mehrotra, MD, MPH, is an associate professor of health care policy and medicine at Harvard Medical School and a hospitalist at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center. Dr Mehrotra’s research focuses on interventions to decrease costs and improve quality of care. Much of his work has focused on innovations in delivery such as retail clinics and telemedicine and their impact on quality, costs, and access to health care. He is also interested in the role of consumerism and whether price transparency and public reporting of quality can impact patient decision making. Related work has focused on new alternative payment models, quality measurement, including how natural language processing can be used to analyze the data in electronic health records to measure the quality of care. Dr. Mehrotra received his BS from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, his MD from the University of California, San Francisco, and his residency in internal medicine and pediatrics at the Massachusetts General Hospital and Children’s Hospital of Boston. His clinical work has been both as a primary care physician and as an adult and pediatric hospitalist. He also has received formal research training with a Master of Public Health from the University of California, Berkeley and a Master of Science in Epidemiology from the Harvard School of Public Health. In 2013, he received the Alice S. Hersh New Investigator Award from Academy Health for health services researchers early in their careers who show exceptional promise.
We'll be asking all to mute their microphones during the presentation, but to switch video settings on where possible, so that our presenter can see their audience. Questions and discussion will be invited from the audience at several points during the presentation.
At CHE, we are working on running as many of our seminars as possible online while COVID-19 remains an obstacle to getting together. As we will be working with experts and colleagues in other parts of the world there will be some movement in the times and days that seminars run to take into account different time zones and availabilities. If you would like to be on our seminar email list, please be directly in contact by email to shannon.stanwell@monash.edu.
Hope to see you there!
Event Details
- Date:
- 29 April 2020 at 9:00 am – 10:00 am
- Venue:
- This seminar will take place via Zoom - please email shannon.stanwell@monash.edu for details.
- Categories:
- Health Economics
Description
Associate Professor Ateev Mehrotra from Harvard Medical School will be joining us by Zoom, offering his insights in ‘Does telepsychiatry improve efficiency and outcomes in the emergency department?’
The COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted the potential benefits of telemedicine during a public health emergency. But telemedicine could care in many ways outside of a pandemic. Hundreds of emergency departments in the United States have introduced telepsychiatry which allows them to get more timely psychiatric input on their patients with mental illness. Using a large database with over 40 million adults, we assess whether the introduction of telepsychiatry has improved care in these emergency departments.
Ateev Mehrotra, MD, MPH, is an associate professor of health care policy and medicine at Harvard Medical School and a hospitalist at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center. Dr Mehrotra’s research focuses on interventions to decrease costs and improve quality of care. Much of his work has focused on innovations in delivery such as retail clinics and telemedicine and their impact on quality, costs, and access to health care. He is also interested in the role of consumerism and whether price transparency and public reporting of quality can impact patient decision making. Related work has focused on new alternative payment models, quality measurement, including how natural language processing can be used to analyze the data in electronic health records to measure the quality of care. Dr. Mehrotra received his BS from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, his MD from the University of California, San Francisco, and his residency in internal medicine and pediatrics at the Massachusetts General Hospital and Children’s Hospital of Boston. His clinical work has been both as a primary care physician and as an adult and pediatric hospitalist. He also has received formal research training with a Master of Public Health from the University of California, Berkeley and a Master of Science in Epidemiology from the Harvard School of Public Health. In 2013, he received the Alice S. Hersh New Investigator Award from Academy Health for health services researchers early in their careers who show exceptional promise.
We'll be asking all to mute their microphones during the presentation, but to switch video settings on where possible, so that our presenter can see their audience. Questions and discussion will be invited from the audience at several points during the presentation.
At CHE, we are working on running as many of our seminars as possible online while COVID-19 remains an obstacle to getting together. As we will be working with experts and colleagues in other parts of the world there will be some movement in the times and days that seminars run to take into account different time zones and availabilities. If you would like to be on our seminar email list, please be directly in contact by email to shannon.stanwell@monash.edu.
Hope to see you there!