Bridging State Borders for Patient Care: A Telehealth Hack-a-Thon

HLPC Faculty Director Carmel Shachar and Clinical Instructor Rachel Landauer are attending the Bridging State Borders for Patient Care Telehealth Hack-a-Thon event, aimed at developing action plans to overcome barriers to providing virtual patient care across state borders.

Johns Hopkins Medicine and Harvard at this event will convene leaders from health care, law, and policy sectors to chart a course for federal legislative strategies on cross-state telehealth.  Welcome remarks from Helen Hughes and Rebecca Canino from the Johns Hopkins Medicine Office of Telemedicine. Ben Leonard from Politico will moderate a “Providers Perspectives: Borders as Barriers” panel with Brian Hasselfeld, Shannon MacDonal, and David Peloquin.

The event will include testimonials from patients and then Krista Drobac (founder, Alliance for Connected Care) will lead attendees in a “call to action” where the event will transition to a telehealth hack-a-thon.

The hack-a-thon aims to build upon the “Consensus Statement for Telehealth Licensure Reforms” published by Harvard Law School’s Center for Health Law and Policy Innovation as well as the Uniform Telehealth Act. Participants will collaborate on action plans to address critical priorities, including cancer care, transplant medicine, rare diseases, student mental health, and clinical trials.

Date: September 19, 2024

Time: 10 a.m. to 3 p.m.