Keynote Address

Where We Are and Where We Need To Be
Jay H. Sanders, MD
Monday, November 2
1:00 pm - 2:15 pm
Convention Center, Ballroom 20 AB

The standard processes of patient care are fundamentally flawed. Health-care providers continue to rely on an “old way of doing things,” where disorders are diagnosed and patients are evaluated and treated based only on a snapshot of clinical data collected during examination. Telecommunication and information technologies can dramatically improve the process and, consequently, the outcome, of health care for both the patient and the provider, yet the potential is far from being realized.

Don’t miss the keynote address, where Jay H. Sanders, MD, President and CEO of The Global Telemedicine Group, will challenge you to examine your own patient care processes in light of potential processes available with technology. Hear Dr. Sanders discuss how telemedicine techniques can allow you to:

• Examine your patients at their home or work, so test data reflects actual living environments.
• Continuously monitor your patients to collect an ongoing picture of their health conditions.
• Use analytical technology to help detect health abnormalities and make accurate diagnoses.
• Receive dynamic feedback on your patient care and clinical decisions.

About the Speaker
Dr. Sanders is President and CEO of The Global Telemedicine Group; Immediate Past President of the American Telemedicine Association; Vice Chairman and Treasurer of the Rural Health Care Corporation; a member of the Board of Directors and Executive Committee for the FCC of the Universal Service Administrative Company; Professor of Medicine (Adjunct) at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine; and Visiting Professor at Yale University School of Medicine. He is a member of the Board of Directors and founding member of the American Telemedicine Association, as well as Senior Advisor to NASA on telemedicine. He serves on the Department of Defense Telemedicine Board of Directors and is a consultant to World Health Organization on Health Telematics.

Dr. Sanders earned his medical degree from Harvard Medical School. He has spent the majority of his professional career involved in teaching and health-care research. He has devoted more than 30 years to the development and implementation of telecommunications and information technologies to address problems relating to quality, cost, and access to care that plague our health-care system. He designed a telemedicine system for Georgia to interface with rural hospitals, public health facilities, correctional institutions, ambulatory health-care centers, military bases, and public school classrooms. He initiated a US embassy telemedicine health-care delivery system, as well as a project that allows for “electronic house calls,” in which patients are cared for in their homes. Dr. Sanders is the author of numerous articles on telemedicine, serves on the editorial boards of many publications, and is editor of the recent book Telemedicine: Theory and Practice.

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