Episode 93: News About Telehealth After Discharge with Ted Spooner, CEO of Respondwell
June 02, 201627:32

Episode 93: News About Telehealth After Discharge with Ted Spooner, CEO of Respondwell

Ted Spooner’s 22 years of broad experience in financial services, technology, digital entertainment and healthcare IT led him to co-found RespondWell in 2003.  As Chairman and CEO, Ted led the company’s initial strategy for development of a new game category - fitness gaming, selling more than $80 million at retail in the global consumer fitness game category. Ted led the company’s transformation of the business, utilizing its assets for development of a Microsoft Kinect-based solution for physical therapy automation, making RespondWell the award-winning company it is today. He also leads the company's initiatives with clinical content partners such as Mary Free Bed, a leading post-acute rehab hospital and Cincinnati Children’s Hospital.

Ted was one of the pioneers of online banking, having founded Corrillian in 1997, an online banking software company with a mission to create a Microsoft-based, highly scalable transaction – processing platform to support emerging consumer and small business demand for online banking. Corillian was acquired by CheckFree Corp. for $245 million in 2007.


00:00 Ted discusses the difference between Telehealth and Telerehabilitation.
01:00 The Telehealth “umbrella.”
02:30 “Consumers have been using Telehealth for years and years, they just didn’t know what it was called.”
03:00 The Telehealth reimbursement code.
03:30 The blurring line between synchronous and asynchronous Telehealth.
10:00 Telehealth as the difference between getting care and not getting care.
11:00 Aftercare as a potential deciding factor for patients choosing a provider.
15:15 Telehealth as an aid to hospital discharges.
19:00 The Connect Motion Sensor and how it’s helping Telehealth and specifically Respondwell.
23:20 What Respondwell’s adherence tools look like from the backend.
28:50 “Without automation, how are we going to care for these people?”
29:30 You can find out more at Respondwell.com.

 

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