[1st-mile-nm] NM Telehealth

[peter]

http://www.santafenewmexican.com/HealthandScience/Telehealth-grid-expands-for-better-rural-care


Peter Baston

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Richard Lowenberg wrote:
> I was hoping to post a link to yesterday's article in the Santa Fe New
> Mexican, titled "Telehealth grid expands for better rural care", noting
> the FCC grant, previously reported about on this list, and of the work of
> Dr. Dale Alverson, with UNM's Telehealth Center, and others.   I have not
> been able to find the link, though.
>
> Here, however, is a late Feb. article from the Business Journal, on the
> same topic.
> rl
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>
> New Mexico Business Weekly - February 29, 2008
> http://albuquerque.bizjournals.com/albuquerque/stories/2008/02/25/daily31.html
>
> UNM Health Sciences plans $15.5 million telehealth grid
>
> The University of New Mexico Health Sciences Center's Center for
> Telehealth and Cybermedicine Research has been awarded $15.5 million from
> the Federal Communications Commission for the design, construction,
> operation and evaluation of a Southwest Telehealth Access Grid.
>
> Telehealth and telemedicine services can provide patients in rural areas
> access to medical specialties in areas like oncology, cardiology,
> pediatrics and radiology -- in some instances without leaving their homes
> or communities. It will allow patients to heal and recover in a more
> familiar environment. The system also could be transitioned for emergency
> use in the event of a natural or other disaster.
>
> The grid will be developed as part of the federal commission's Rural
> Health Care Pilot Program, a three-year, $417 million nationwide project
> that will build an infrastructure for a network of 69 statewide or
> regional broadband telehealth sites. The program will use broadband
> capabilities for sharing telemedicine clinical services across sites and
> will provide education and training programs to rural health care
> professionals.
>
> More than 500 health-related facilities in New Mexico, Arizona, Nevada,
> California, Texas and Utah, including Indian Health Services, ultimately
> will be served by the Southwest Telehealth Access Grid.
>
> The grid is a partnership between the University of New Mexico, the
> Arizona Telemedicine Program and the Southwest Indian Health Service
> Telehealth Consortium and associated tribes.
>
> The consortium comprises the Center for High Performance Computing, the
> university's Electrical & Computer Engineering Department, the New Mexico
> Institute of Mining & Technology, New Mexico State University, the state
> Department of Health, the Arizona Telemedicine Program, Holy Cross
> Hospital, Presbyterian Medical Services, Sangre de Cristo Community Health
> Partnership and the Southwest Indian Health Service.
>
>  American City Business Journals Inc. All rights reserved.
>
>
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> Richard Lowenberg
> P.O.Box 8001, Santa Fe, NM 87504
> 505-989-9110,  505-603-5200 cell
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