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Connecting AlabamaBroadband and Telehealth Summit 2012

Sherilyn Pruitt, MPHU.S. Department of Health and Human Services

Health Resources and Services AdministrationOffice of Rural Health Policy

Office for the Advancement of Telehealth

• Voice for Rural” within HHS• Rural-Focused Review of HHS

Regulations• Research and Policy Development• Rural-Specific Grant Programs• Technical Assistance

Office of Rural Health Policy

Office for the Advancement of Telehealth (OAT)

MissionTo 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.

OAT Grant Programs

• Licensure Portability Grants

• Telehealth Network Grants

• Telehealth Resource Centers

• Flex Rural Veterans Healthcare Access

Program

• Uniform onlineapplications

• Centralized credentialing

• Expedited Licensure

Licensure Portability Grant Program

UNIFORMONLINE

APPLICATIONS

CENTRALIZEDCREDENTIALING

EXPEDITED LICENSURE

Telehealth Network Grant Program

• Purpose – to demonstrate how telehealth technologies can help expand access, coordinate and improve quality of health services

• 25 TNGP grantees – 16 hub and spoke, and 9 telehome care grantees

• New grants awarded September 1, 2012

• Funding for up to four years at $250k per year

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St. Lawrence, Franklin, Clinton, & Essex Counties New York

TelehealthResourceCenters.org

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Northeast TRC

Tex-LA TRC

• Purpose: to increase the delivery of quality mental health and other healthcare services to all rural veterans, their families and other rural residents

• Three years of funding each to entities in Alaska, Montana and Virginia

Flex Rural Veterans Grant Program

IOM Workshop on The Role of Telehealth in an Evolving Health Care Environment

• http://www.iom.edu/Activities/HealthServices/Telehealth.aspx• August 8 - 9, 2012, Washington, DC • Live Webcast and Archived• Summary in November

OAT Activities

Cross Federal Workgroup on Telehealth – FedTel• Shared website• Six subcommittees • Short-term and long-term goals• 26 agencies/departments

OAT Activities

CMMI Partnership• 15 Innovations Award Winners focusing on

Telehealth• Collaboration on “Rapid Cycle Change”• TRC-HCIA Webinar

OAT Activities

E-ICU Study - What is the impact of Tele-ICUs on rural hospitals?

• Policy & Program Development • Human Factors • Technology• Cost Effectiveness• Clinical Outcomes

OAT Activities

Contact

Sherilyn PruittOffice for the Advancement of Telehealth

Office of Rural Health Policy, HRSA

spruitt@hrsa.gov

301-594-0819