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Jul 20, 2023 08:53 CT
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Elizabeth Krupinski, PhD
President
Society for Education and the
Advancement of Research in Connected Health
info@searchsociety.org
LITTLE ROCK AR – July 20, 2023 – The Society for Education and the Advancement of Research in Connected Health (SEARCH) announces a new collaboration with the American Heart Association’s Center for Telehealth for the SEARCH 2023 National Telehealth Research Symposium in Philadelphia, November 7–9.
The American Heart Association is the nation’s oldest and largest voluntary organization dedicated to fighting heart disease and stroke. The American Heart Association’s Center for Telehealth will collaborate with SEARCH to disseminate connected health research to examine the benefit and effectiveness of telehealth and share outcomes and best practices at the conference.
“The American Heart Association’s Center for Telehealth and SEARCH share common priorities and interest in educating health care professionals about the latest research in telemedicine, eHealth, mHealth and other health care technologies,” said Lee Schwamm, M.D., an American Heart Association volunteer, senior vice president and chief digital health officer of Yale New Haven Health and associate dean of digital strategy and transformation at Yale School of Medicine. “Building on the Association’s proven record of converting evidence into practice and trusted reputation, this collaboration will work to advance the integration of telehealth into patient care through evidence-based research, improve professionals’ knowledge through continuing education, and expand dissemination of science through networking and education.”
SEARCH offers a variety of annual events each year for those researching in the field of connected health. The Society also operates free of commercial bias to examine the usefulness of telehealth. The new collaboration between SEARCH and the American Heart Association’s Center for Telehealth furthers this goal and encourages more collaborators to define and expand the field of connected health research.
“SEARCH is very excited to begin collaborating with such a respected organization that shares our enthusiasm for promoting unbiased research in the field of connected health,” says Vice President and Secretary, David Fletcher. “We look forward to working with their leaders and members to share the latest research and promote best practices within the industry.”
About SEARCH: The Society for Education and the Advancement of Research in Connected Health (SEARCH) started in 2016 as a small team of academics, researchers and clinical professionals. SEARCH has developed into a society with the goal of promoting connected health programs through the use of evidenced-based research. For more, visit: https://searchsociety.org/about/.
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Elizabeth Krupinski, PhD, will serve as the President for SEARCH. Elizabeth is a Professor and Vice-Chair of Research at Emory University in the Departments of Radiology, Psychology and Bioinformatics. She is the Associate Director of Evaluation for the Arizona Telemedicine Program and the Director of the SouthWest Telehealth Resource Center. She also serves as the editor of the Telemedicine Reports and the Journal of Digital Imaging. “SEARCH is currently the only major venue for finding cutting-edge research presentations, interacting with top-notch telehealth investigators, finding research collaborators, and for supporting trainees interested in telehealth research,” says Krupsinksi. “Its independence from vendors ensures the data presented are unbiased and of the highest quality.”
David Fletcher will serve as the Vice President and Secretary for SEARCH. David is the Associate Vice President of Telehealth at Geisinger, has worked for 20 years in the healthcare industry. He currently oversees all facets of telehealth and the eICU program with 160 employees serving Geisinger’s 10 hospital campuses and more than 50 community clinics and 15 urgent care clinics, which serves more than 2 million residents in Pennsylvania. In July 2020, the program was recognized as the #1 National Telehealth Network at the Teladoc National Telehealth Innovation Forum. “SEARCH is immensely valuable to me because the unbiased, thoughtful research it provides helps me separate the wheat from the chaff in all of the proposals I see in this still young industry. Every year after the conference, I come away increasingly empowered to make clear-eyed, evidence-based decisions to help build our program,” says Fletcher.
Mari Robinson, JD, is the newest member of SEARCH and will serve as the new Treasurer. Mari is the Director of Telehealth for the University of Texas Medical Branch and in that role she is assisting with the roll out of the Virtual Health Network, a project to link all UT systems medical campuses to allow for the shared provision of telemedicine throughout the state. She is also the Director of the Medical Technology Resource & Education Center (MTREC), which provides training and support in the area of medical technology. “SEARCH’s role of promoting objective data regarding the efficacy in telehealth in the various areas of medical care fills an important need in the telehealth landscape,” says Robinson. “This is necessary if we hope to utilize telemedicine to universally improve healthcare for all of the population.”
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