IRHA - Lunch & Learn:Improving Care for Vulnerable Populations in Indiana with Asynchronous Telehealth

During this presentation Dr. Anderson will be sharing information about eConsults, clarifying what they are and how they work, and reviewing evidence from around the country for the impact that they can have on patient care.

3 objectives’
Objective 1: Understand the difference between asynchronous telehealth and other forms of telehealth
Objective 2: Be able to cite challenges with the current specialty care referral process that eConsults can mitigate
Objective 3: Discuss intervention strategies that maximize the benefit of eConsults in a busy primary care practice

Presenter: Daren Anderson, MD, President/Founder of ConferMED
He is the director of the Weitzman Institute and the President and Founder of its subsidiary, ConferMED, in Middletown, Connecticut. The Weitzman Institute is a research and innovations center dedicated to improving primary care for underserved populations. 

ConferMED is a national telehealth provider focusing on improving access to specialty care through asynchronous communication with its national network of specialists.

As leader of the nation’s only research and innovation center embedded within a Federally Qualified Health Center, Dr. Anderson leads a diverse team of innovators, health services researchers, educators, and quality improvement specialists working together to design new models to transform primary care for the underserved. Under his leadership, Weitzman has grown from a small, Connecticut-based institute to a national organization working closely with health centers, payers, funders, and agencies in 35 states. Weitzman researchers are engaged in a range of studies focused on issues such as health equity, telehealth, chronic disease management, and pain management in primary care. Dr. Anderson has served as the principal investigator for multiple federal and privately funded research projects, several of which focused on health disparities, healthcare access, and pain management in primary care. He has published widely and speaks nationally on primary care redesign, telehealth, and health disparities.

Dr. Anderson’s research in telehealth and electronic consultation at the Weitzman Institute formed the basis of a new model for embedding eConsults into safety net primary care practices. This model was the basis for creating ConferMED, a national eConsult provider now engaged in supporting practices in 18 states across the U.S., as well as internationally.

Dr. Anderson began his career as a general internist providing primary care for medically underserved patients in New Britain, Connecticut. He subsequently served as Chief Medical Officer and then Chief Quality Officer for Community Health Center, Inc., a large, multisite health center providing primary care to over 150,000 patients across Connecticut.

Dr. Anderson obtained his undergraduate degree at Harvard College and his medical degree from the Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons. He completed his residency training in internal medicine at Yale-New Haven Hospital and is a board certified general internist. He is Associate Professor of Medicine at the Frank Netter School of Medicine at Quinnipiac University, and Assistant Clinical Professor for the Yale School of Public Health.

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