Healthcare IT News - March 2009 - (Page 19) www.HealthcareITNews.com phySIcIAN pRActIcES & AmBulAtoRy cARE are benefiting from it,” says Bost. To date, Children’s has linked only with Adena, but Rachel Brown, MD, assistant professor of pediatrics at Children’s, says it plans to extend the program to Genesis HealthCare System in Zanesville,Group - 239929 Sigma Ohio. Client: In the second2009 Feb PAN TB year of the program Project: Brown says the number of NICU Campaign: Healthcare transfers to Children’s dropped from Creative: PAN1594: Tough Survive 64 to 39, which she attributes in part BT AE: to the telemedicine program. Children’s plans to integrate telemedicine consults with its electronic medical record system, so the consult March 2009 ■ Healthcare IT News 19 NeoNaTal Continued from page 17 Craig Malloy, CEO and co-founder of LifeSize, says, “The neonatal project at Adena has been the most compelling usage for our technology so far.” “Divisions are able to use it on their own without the help of a technician. It is a self-serve model,” he says. Malloy says the technology is designed to last. “In two years we haven’t had a hiccup, physicians love it and patients is part of the patient’s records. Brown says the cost for the ride According to Brown the telemediBost says Adena is also planning cine consults have not only saved is around $5,000 dollars and the Ship Info: Healthcare IT News Healthcare IT News Publication: on expanding its telemedicine con- money and resources, but also have stay around $15,000. 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Attn: Karen Diekmann Bleed = 8.375” x 10.875” the telemedicine He says fortable with their own assessments, T: 207-688-6270 the reimbursement Trim = 8.125” x 10.625” consults,” he says. and itxhas helped with the rapport structure needs to be looked E: Karen.Diekmann@medtechpublishing.com Safety = 7.625” 10.125” “ You want the Format: that we (the hospitals) have with at because currently there is PDF/X-1a File no financial reward to the hospieach other.” best care possible Marcus Bost 1 Proofs: The ambulance ride from Adena tals for helping to drive these costs for your child and this allows this to B:8.375” happen,” he says. “Anytime that you to Children’s takes about an hour down. ■ T:8.125” have to do a transfer is a dangerous and a half and the baby usually is More at HealthcareITNews.com required to stay for three days. time.” e ● Connect: NeoNataL 0309 S:7.625” lIfeSHIrT Continued from page 17 released a study in 2007 called a “reverse-translational approach,” which uses a paradigm originally developed in rodents for human subjects. In studies researchers found when rodents are given drugs such as amphetamines, or have genetic abnormalities that change brain chemistry, they exhibit distinctive, abnormal movement patterns and difficulties in filtering information. Medications for bipolar disorder normalize these types of behaviors. In the study, subjects were asked to go into a small room filled with objects and wait unsupervised for 15 minutes before the experiment began – unbeknownst to the subjects, this was the actual experiment. Patrick Hankey, sales director, VivoMetrics, says the study found “different types of subjects interacted with the objects in very distinctive ways.” The subjects with bipolar disorder interacted with all the objects and moved around the room rapidly, while subjects who had schizophrenia were found to interact much less. Alex Derchak Perry and his colleagues say by studying the brain’s screening or filtering mechanisms in manic patients before and after they are treated with medication, they will be able to compare their results to tests done on rodents. Researchers believe mice can be used to discover new and improved drugs by observing how their movement pattern is altered after taking medication. The collective findings might also offer insight into the chemical imbalances and genetic abnormalities that appear to contribute to bipolar disorder. Hankey says LifeShirt was the enabling technology for this experiment because it replicated what had previously only been done with rodents. Alex Derchak, principal scientist, VivoMetrics, says although the subject’s movements are continuously being monitored, it is not in realtime. 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