Women's Telehealth
Company Name: Women's Telehealth
Address:
990 Hammond Dr
Ste 120
Atlanta, Georgia 30328
USA
404-478-3017
Contact Information:
Tanya Mack
President
404-478-3017
tmack@womenstelehealth.com
Year Incorporated or Founded:
2011
State Incorporated or Founded:
Georgia
Healthcare Model:
Medical specialty service aggregator, Medical specialty service provider to healthcare providers, Patient education/engagement service
Corporate Structure:
Private for-profit
Description of Services:
Women's Telehealth is an organization that offers high risk OB care, reproductive endocrinology and genetic counseling via telemedicine to rural and urban areas in hospital, private practice and government clinics. Women's Telehealth has completed > 13,000 high risk OB telemedicine encounters since it's inception in 2011. We are currently licensed to provide telemedicine in the 6 Southeastern US states (GA, FL, AL, TN, NC, SC) and adding more each quarter. We count among our clients large private OB practices (>4 providers), the State of GA DCH and second tier HCA hospitals. In 2015, Women's Telehealth entered into their first international partnership based in the Republic of Georgia. Women's Telehealth is vendor neutral and we work with our client's network and hardware legacy systems and equipment whenever possible. WT has used T1, satellite and fiber connectivity points, a variety of telemedicine equipment from national vendors such as Cisco, Polycom and Rubbermaid and has worked with a variety of networks. We provide the following services via telemedicine: Maternal fetal medicine consultation; Limited Reproductive Endocrinology; Obstetric and High Risk Ultrasound; Genetic Counseling; High Risk Obstetric Education Services; Long Distance Learning for Ultrasonographers. Some of our success stories include: a) ATA Website publication for our Public-Private partnership with the State of GA DCH department for reducing preterm labor rates in a targeted population from 18.8% to 8% over 500 pregnancies in an 18 month period; b) Featured on GPB and NPR for decreasing preterm labor rates in rural African American and Hispanic populations; c) Working with a second tier HCA hospital to install an outpatient based Maternal Fetal Medicine program 100% by telemedicine that resulted in decreasing high risk OB transfers out of the community by 94% and retaining neonates in the community NICU vs. tertiary care hospital; d) A national presentation at the American Telemedicine Association for our long distance learning program for rural based ultrasonographers; c) Placement of maternal fetal telemedicine programs directly into larger OB offices to make services more convenient for patients (concurrent with their OB antenatal visits) and more cost effective (no facility fees). For more information call: 404-478-3017
Teleservices:
Genetic counseling, Maternal & fetal medicine, Obstetrics, Sonography
Ancillary Services:
Distance education, Patient education
Ancillary Services - Other:
Women's Telehealth has been a national innovator of using MFM telemedicine in conjunction with Centering Pregnancy programs in urban and rural settings to help decrease preterm labor rates.
Currently providing services in:
Georgia, South Carolina
Healthcare professionals have licenses in:
Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, North Carolina, Ohio, South Carolina, Tennessee
Teleproviders are physically located in:
Georgia, Ohio
Entities company currently partners or is willing to partner with:
Correctional facilities; Federally Qualified Health Centers; Government agencies; Rural hospitals; Urban/suburban Hospitals; Insurers; Private physician practices
How many patients / direct consumers is your company serving:
20-49
Number full-time MD/DO telehealth professionals:
1-5
Number part-time MD/DO telehealth professionals:
1-5
Number full-time other:
1-5
Other telehealth professionals:
Certified Nurse Midwives
After licensing and credentialing, average time to initiate services to new partner/customer:
1-3 months
Telemedicine systems used to connect to customers:
Vendor and network neutral. Currently using Cisco, Rubbermaid, Polycom carts. Platform agnostic: government, HCA, proprietary platforms in use
Electronic health records (EHR) incorporated in services:
Yes
How EHR interfaces with the EHR of the referring/consulting site:
We have worked with many client's EMRs including: Allscripts, Nextgen, Greenway, Digichart, Athena, Azalea. We currently use Azalea, including their new in-EMR AV telemedicine platform for home follow up visits and genetic counseling services. We sign BAA and IT agreements between entities. Then we build customized groups and security rights so Women's Telehealth can access referrals and OB prenatal records pre-consult. Our clients also have security rights to check their own patients' schedules with us. We generate U/S reports and MFM consult notes post visit and send these via secure FAX for import into the client's EMR systems.
Company uses an electronic health record system that is certified by ONC:
Yes
Edition ONC HIT Certification Program company's EHR is certified for:
2014 edition
Wait time for consultation for emergency services:
45 minutes to one hour
Wait time for consultation for nonemergent services:
Within 24 hours
Provides Billing Services:
Provides Billing Services - Other:
Women's Telehealth has full time CPC coders on staff with over 30 years of combined maternal fetal medicine coding experience.
Payers billed:
Medicaid, Private payers (e.g., Blue Cross Blue Shield, Cigna, UnitedHealthcare, Aetna), Tricare
Describe how your teleproviders are recruited and selected:
Recruiting MFM providers is mostly through networking as it is a small group advancing only about 60-70 MD's out of fellowship in a year. Selection of providers is based on geographic licensure footprint due to telemedicine licensing requirements, board certification and education programs. All incoming clinicians also undergo internal telemedicine, media training and our long distance learning platform training once they join Women's Telehealth.
Company Payment Model:
Fee for service
Complies with HIPAA and HITECH:
Yes
Minimum monthly consultation requirement:
no minimum
Minimum number of hospital beds:
no minimum
Minimum number of ICU or NICU beds:
no minimum
Additional company information:
ROI-wise to make the MFM telemedicine program self sustaining for all parties, we use the following metrics when evaluating the cost effectiveness of opportunities: For Hospitals: >750 but <3000 births per year is usually cost effective for putting MFM telemedicine in. For Private OB Office installing their own MFM telemedicine in office: Usually > 3 providers is ideal. Potential Strategic Partners: If you already have a distribution channel but not a women's health component to your service, the Women's Telehealth telemedicine model is very scalable.
Joined the Directory: 04/19/2016
Information Last Updated: 04/28/2016