[1st-mile-nm] NM Telehealth

[peter]

http://hsc.unm.edu/som/telehealth/research.shtml


Peter Baston

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peter wrote:
> http://www.santafenewmexican.com/HealthandScience/Telehealth-grid-expands-for-better-rural-care
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> 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.
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>> 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
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>> UNM Health Sciences plans $15.5 million telehealth grid
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>> 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.
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>> 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.
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>> 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.
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>> 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.
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>> 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.
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>> 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.
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>>  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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>> 1st-Mile Institute
>> New Mexico Broadband Initiative
>> www.1st-mile.com
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