Title: "Promoting Patient-Centered Care by Home Automated Telemanagement in Multiple Sclerosis"

Speakers: Mitchell Wallin, MD, MPH, Clinical Associate Director of the VA MS Center of Excellence-East and Assistant Professsor Neurology at Georgetown University and the University of Maryland School of Medicine

Joseph Finkelstein, MD, PhD, Informatics Associate Director for the VA MS Center of Excellence-East and Assistant Professor of Medicine, Division of General Internal Medicine within the Department of Medicine at Johns Hopkins School of Medicine

Patients with multiple sclerosis (MS) are often separated from clinics and hospitals by distance and neurological disability making coordination of care challenging. Telemedicine tools are proposed as a means to improve coordination and care access to VHA services. Unfortunately, many current telemedicine tools have not been effective in meeting the needs of MS patients or providers. This lecture will introduce the web-based Home Automated Telemanagement (HAT) system being designed for MS. MS HAT is based on Wagner's model of chronic disease care and provides support for patient self-management, comprehensive patient-provider communication, and multidisciplinary care coordination.

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