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Health Resources & Services Administration Office of Rural Health Policy Office for the Advancement of Telehealth

Health Resources & Services Administration Office of Rural Health Policy Office for the Advancement of Telehealth. HIT or Miss Presented by Sherilyn Pruitt, Director. HRSA - ORHP. Mission

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Health Resources & Services Administration Office of Rural Health Policy Office for the Advancement of Telehealth

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  1. Health Resources & Services AdministrationOffice of Rural Health PolicyOffice for the Advancement of Telehealth HIT or Miss Presented by Sherilyn Pruitt, Director

  2. HRSA - ORHP

  3. Mission To advance the use of telehealth technologies for improving access and quality of health care services for the underserved Serves as the operational focal point for coordinating and advancing the use of telehealth technologies. Office for the Advancement of Telehealth (OAT)

  4. OAT Linking with the Rural Initiative • Helping link Telehealth Grantees with other ORHP Grantees • Promoting the Telehealth Resource Centers to Rural Communities • Linking with USDA Distance Learning and Telehealth Programs

  5. OAT Grant Program Objectives • Improve Access • Improve Quality of Services • Reduce Medical Errors • Work Force Development • Foster Integrated Systems of Care • Document Value Added of Telehealth Technologies

  6. OAT Activities • Telehealth Network Grants • Telehealth Resource Centers • Licensure Portability Grant Program • Congressionally Mandated Projects • Contracts • Partnerships

  7. OAT Grant Awards • Awarded over $260 million in grants since 1989 • Competitive and Congressionally- mandated projects • FY 2010 Competitive cycle for TNGPs and TRCs

  8. To demonstrate how telehealth technologies can be used through telehealth networks to: • expand access to, coordinate, and improve quality of health services; • improve and expand the training of health care providers; and • expand and improve the quality of health information available to health care providers, and to patients and their families Eligibility: TNGP--Open to urban and rural networks, but at least 50% of funding for rural areas. Telehealth Network Grants

  9. Purchase/lease equipment (up to 40% of grant) • Pay for organizational development and operations • Conduct internal evaluations on cost- effectiveness of services • Provide clinical services, develop distance education programs, mentor/precept at a distance • Promote collaboration in the region to improve the quality of and access to health services Telehealth Grants Allow Grantees to. . .

  10. Telehomecare Networks • Evaluate the cost and effectiveness of remote vital sign monitoring of individual patients and the delivery of healthcare services to individuals in their place of residence by a healthcare provider using telecommunications technologies to exchange healthcare information over a distance.

  11. Telehealth Resource Centers Regional Resource Centers California Telemedicine & eHealth Center (CTEC) Great Plains Telehealth Resource and Assistance Center (GPTRAC) Northwest Regional Telehealth Resource Center (NWRTC) Southwest Telehealth Resource Center (SWTRC) South East Telehealth Resource Center (SETRC) South Central Telehealth Resource Center (SCTRC) Pacific Basin Telehealth Resource Center (PBTRC) Heartland Telehealth Resource Center (HTRC)

  12. Telehealth Resource Centers National Telehealth Resource Center Center for Telehealth and eHealth Law Telehealth Technology Assistance Center IAA to I.H.S. for the Alaska Native Tribal Health Corporation (ANTHC) on behalf of the Alaska Federal Health Care Access Network (AFHCAN)

  13. Licensure Portability Grant Program Provides support for State professional licensing boards to carry out programs under which licensing boards of various States cooperate to develop and implement State policies that will reduce statutory and regulatory barriers to telemedicine. Federation of State Medical Boards Eulas, Texas $350,000 (Contd. funding)

  14. WA ME MT ND VT MN OR NH MA ID WI NY SD RI WY MI CT PA NJ IA NE NV OH DE IN IL UT MD CO WV VA KS MO CA KY NC TN AZ OK AR SC NM GA AL MS TX LA FL AK HI

  15. OAT Grant Awards Other OAT Continuation Grants in 2010 • 17 TNGP Grants - $4.2 million • 4 TRCs - $1.3 million Grant Awards for 2011 • 3 new TRCs • Continuing 8 TRCs, 26 TNGPs and 1 LPGP

  16. OAT Contracts • E-ICU in Rural Communities • Performance Measures for Telehealth Resource Centers • Performance Evaluation for TNGP Grantees

  17. HRSA Bureaus and Offices • Office of the National Coordinator (ONC) • Indian Health Service • CMS • USDA • FCC • American Telemedicine Association • National Rural Health Association OAT’s Partners in Telehealth

  18. Other Resources • American Telemedicine Associationhttp://www.atmeda.org • Telemedicine Information Exchange http://tie.telemed.org/funding/ • Rural Assistance Center http://raconline.org • AFHCAN Telehealth Solutions http://www.afhcan.org/

  19. Questions? Thank you! Sherilyn Pruitt spruitt@hrsa.gov 301-594-0819

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