[1st-mile-nm] UNM HSC gets $15M. for Telehealth Project

[Carroll Cagle]

Here it is the link. I was too fast on the trigger finger a moment ago..

 

http://www.economist.com/news/international/21623710-long-touted-health-care
-revolution-may-last-be-about-arrive-stuck-waiting?fsrc=nlw|hig|9-10-2014|

 

Carroll Cagle

 

 

From: Carroll Cagle [mailto:carroll at cagleandassociates.com] 
Sent: Thursday, October 09, 2014 8:38 PM
To: 'Richard Lowenberg'; '1st-Mile-NM'
Subject: RE: [1st-mile-nm] UNM HSC gets $15M. for Telehealth Project

 

Richard, thanks for the posting.  

 

Good to see UNM and the telemedicine pioneers here are being acknowledged in
tangible ($$$) ways.  Dale Alverson of course is one such leader that a
number of people on this list know.

 

And, Richard's posting is timely in view of this today from The Economist:

 

A long-touted health-care revolution may at last be about to arrive

The idea of telemedicine-health care provided using telecommunications
equipment-has a lengthy history. Radio News, an American magazine, devoted
its cover to a patient at home consulting a doctor in his surgery via a
television link as long ago as 1924. When NASA began monitoring astronauts
in space in the 1960s, fantasy became reality. It has been touted as health
care's future ever since.

But even smartphones and tablets have failed to usher in the telemedicine
revolution: most health care still happens face to face. Now, enthusiasts
think the wait is nearly over. Governments have been slow to embrace an
approach that could improve coverage and outcomes, as well as saving money.
But they are under increasing pressure from ageing populations and a surge
in chronic diseases, just as public budgets are being squeezed..

 

 

 

 

 

From: 1st-mile-nm [mailto:1st-mile-nm-bounces at mailman.dcn.org] On Behalf Of
Richard Lowenberg
Sent: Thursday, October 09, 2014 6:11 PM
To: 1st-Mile-NM
Subject: [1st-mile-nm] UNM HSC gets $15M. for Telehealth Project

 

http://www.abqjournal.com/477132/news/unmh-gets-15mil-for-telehealth-project
.html 
 
Associated Press
Thursday, October 9, 2014
 
The Department of Neurosurgery at the University of New Mexico Health
Sciences Center has been awarded $15,120,767 to test expansion of their
telehealth infrastructure system that will provide 30 hospitals statewide
with remote emergency neurological and neurosurgical consultations.
 
The money, awarded through the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services
Innovation Center, will support the Access to Critical Cerebral Emergency
Support Services initiative and help to provide improved emergency care at
lower costs to rural communities, according to a joint news release from New
Mexico Senators Tom Udall and Martin Heinrich.
 
The ACCESS initiative aims to increase availability of emergency
neurological care. In partnership with Net Medical Xpress Solutions, based
in Albuquerque, the project will provide patients at hospitals throughout
the state with around the clock remote access to emergency neurological and
neurosurgical consultations conducted by medical experts based at the UNM
Medical Center in Albuquerque.
 
Each hospital will also receive equipment and tools to aid in neurological
diagnosis and treatment on site, avoiding needless transfers to Albuquerque.
 
The principal investigator for the project, distinguished professor and
chairman of neurosurgery at UNM, Dr. Howard Yonas, will collaborate with a
team of highly trained neurologists and neurosurgeons at the UNM Medical
Center to provide state-of-the-art neurologically-based telemedicine
services throughout the state.


 

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Richard Lowenberg, Executive Director

1st-Mile Institute          www.1st-mile.org  

P. O.  Box 8001, Santa Fe, NM    87504

505-603-5200                 rl at 1st-mile.org

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