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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Century Gothic","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Here it is the link… I was too fast on the trigger finger a moment ago….<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Century Gothic","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Century Gothic","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><a href="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|">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|</a><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Century Gothic","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Century Gothic","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Carroll Cagle<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Bookman Old Style","serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Bookman Old Style","serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #B5C4DF 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in'><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>From:</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> Carroll Cagle [mailto:carroll@cagleandassociates.com] <br><b>Sent:</b> Thursday, October 09, 2014 8:38 PM<br><b>To:</b> 'Richard Lowenberg'; '1st-Mile-NM'<br><b>Subject:</b> RE: [1st-mile-nm] UNM HSC gets $15M. for Telehealth Project<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Bookman Old Style","serif";color:#1F497D'>Richard, thanks for the posting. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Bookman Old Style","serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Bookman Old Style","serif";color:#1F497D'>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.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Bookman Old Style","serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Bookman Old Style","serif";color:#1F497D'>And, Richard’s posting is timely in view of this today from The Economist:<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Bookman Old Style","serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><b><span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>A long-touted health-care revolution may at last be about to arrive<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>The idea of telemedicine—health care provided using telecommunications equipment—has a lengthy history. <em><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>Radio News</span></em>, 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.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>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….<o:p></o:p></span></p><p><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Bookman Old Style","serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Bookman Old Style","serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #B5C4DF 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in'><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>From:</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> 1st-mile-nm [<a href="mailto:1st-mile-nm-bounces@mailman.dcn.org">mailto:1st-mile-nm-bounces@mailman.dcn.org</a>] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Richard Lowenberg<br><b>Sent:</b> Thursday, October 09, 2014 6:11 PM<br><b>To:</b> 1st-Mile-NM<br><b>Subject:</b> [1st-mile-nm] UNM HSC gets $15M. for Telehealth Project<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><a href="http://www.abqjournal.com/477132/news/unmh-gets-15mil-for-telehealth-project.html">http://www.abqjournal.com/477132/news/unmh-gets-15mil-for-telehealth-project.html</a> <br> <br>Associated Press<br>Thursday, October 9, 2014<br> <br>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.<br> <br>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.<br> <br>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.<br> <br>Each hospital will also receive equipment and tools to aid in neurological diagnosis and treatment on site, avoiding needless transfers to Albuquerque.<br> <br>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.<o:p></o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal><br> <o:p></o:p></p><div><div><div><div><div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black'>---------------------------------------------------------<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black'>Richard Lowenberg, Executive Director<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black'>1st-Mile Institute <a href="http://www.1st-mile.org">www.1st-mile.org</a> <o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black'>P. 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