Bridging the Gap: Innovations for Equitable Specialty Care for Pediatric and Rural Health Populations - May 31, 2024
Recorded On: 05/31/2024
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This is part of the Advancing Health Equity Through Telehealth: AAMC Learning Series.
The need for equitable access to specialty care remains a challenge for healthcare systems, specifically, in pediatric and rural communities. The AAMC’s Project CORE (Coordinating Optimal Referral Experiences) has worked with over 50 Academic Health Systems (AHS) and children’s hospitals to improve access to specialty care through enhancements to the referral process and use of eConsults. eConsults have been shown to enable timely access to specialty input, improve communication and coordination between providers, garner positive patient experience, and reduce costs of care. eConsults have also shown the ability to bridge the care gap specifically for both pediatric and rural communities. One challenge of eConsults, however, is navigating the external pivot to connect patients to care outside of the health system. This webinar will cover applicable strategies that academic health systems have employed to navigate the external pivot in connecting rural and pediatric patients to specialty care and lessons learned from these experiences.
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Genevieve Whiting, MD
Medial Director, MaineHealth Pediatrics
Assistant Professor of Pediatrics, Tufts University
Dr. Genevieve Whiting, MD, FAAP, is a board-certified pediatrician and advocate for improving the care of pediatric patients in the state of Maine and beyond. Genevieve completed her MD at Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons and residency and chief residency at Morgan Stanley Children’s Hospital of Columbia University before moving to Maine. Genevieve is a primary care pediatrician and associate medical director at MaineHealth Pediatrics- Westbrook, ME and primary care lead for the implementation of Project CORE for pediatrics at MaineHealth. Genevieve is assistant professor of Pediatrics at Tufts University and secretary of the Maine Chapter of the American Academy of Pediatrics. In these various roles, two passions continually emerge (amongst others): health access equity and practice improvements through innovation. These have combined to fuel research into how innovation can promote equity. She is currently an American Pediatric Association and Barbara Bush Children’s Hospital Research Scholar studying the health access equity implications of eConsult implementation. She hopes to translate research into evidence-based health systems improvements while advocating for supporting primary care to implement change that benefits patients, providers, communities and the population.
Erik Shessler, MD
General Pediatrician and Chair for Pediatric Primary Care, Dartmouth Health Children’s
Erik is a general pediatrician at Dartmouth Health Children’s. He is the chair for pediatric primary care at DHC and the eConsult lead. He completed medical school at McGill University in Montreal and his pediatric residency at Dartmouth. He is also the immediate past president of the New Hampshire Chapter of the American Academy of Pediatrics.
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