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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
301-594-0819