Dr. Mehrotra will describe the growth of telehealth across the United States describing clinical conditions are most often treated and which patients are impacted. He will then provide more details on telemental health, telestroke, and the use of telemedicine for primary care conditions focusing on their impact on spending, access, and quality.

Ateev Mehrotra, M.D., M.P.H. is an Associate Professor in the Department of Health Care Policy at Harvard Medical School. Much of his research has focused on innovations in delivery such as retail clinics and e-visits have on quality, costs, and access to health care. He is also interested in the role of consumerism and whether price transparency and public reporting of quality can impact patient decision making. Related work has focuses on quality measurement including how natural language processing can be used to analyze the data in electronic health records to measure the quality of care. Dr. Mehrotra receives his B.S. from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, his medical degree from the University of California, San Francisco and completed his residency in internal medicine and pediatrics at the Massachusetts General Hospital and Children’s Hospital of Boston. His clinical work has been both as a primary care physician and as an adult and pediatric hospitalist.

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A light lunch will be served from PAH at 12 noon for those who RSVP by 31 January 2020.

Please RSVP by 21 January 2020 to chsr@uq.edu.au and advise of any dietary requirements.

Venue

Translational Research Institute
37 Kent Street, Woolloongabba
Room: 
2007