Telehealth from a federal persepctive

Teleconnect for Better Health Georgia Partnership for Telehealth Sherilyn Pruitt, MPH U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Health Resources and Services Administration Office of Rural Health Policy Office for the Advancement of Telehealth

Overview
ORHP Overview
Office for the Advancement of Telehealth
HRSA Telehealth Activities
Other Federal Telehealth Activities
Resources

ORHP
Quick Background
Part of HRSA & DHHS
Policy and Program Role
Review Regulations
Administer Grant Programs

ORHP Structure Office for the Advancement of Telehealth Administrative Policy Research Team Hospital State Division Border Health Division Community Based Division ORHP

Office for the Advancement of Telehealth (OAT)
New Addition to ORHP…
Telehealth Network Grants
Telehealth Resource Centers
Licensure Portability Grant
Program

OAT Funding History
Fiscal Year Funding Level 2006 $6.8 million 2007 $6.8 million 2008 $6.7 million 2009 $7.5 million 2009 Recovery Act $1.0 million 2010 $11.6 million

& Telehealth Resource Center Grantees 0

www.hrsa.gov/ruralhealth/about/telehealth/

OAT Staff

Other HRSA Telehealth Activities
Office of Health Information Technology & Quality
Bureau of Primary Health Care HIT Branch
National Health Service Corps
Maternal and Child Health Bureau

What is Going on in Washington?

“ Within the total amount requested for Rural Health activities, the Budget includes $79 million to continue the President’s initiative to improve rural health. The goal of this initiative is to improve the access to and quality of health care in rural areas.

The Improving Rural Health Initiative: Key Elements
Health Workforce Recruitment and Retention
Building a Programmatic “Evidence-Base”
Telehealth/HIT Coordination
Cross Governmental Collaboration

Federal Collaboration on Telehealth
President’s Council of Advisors on
Science and Technology
M-Health Work Group
DHHS Rural HIT Taskforce
Joint Working Group on Telehealth

Additional Federal Investments in Telehealth
Federal Communications Commission (FCC) Universal Service Administrative Company (USAC)
US Department of Agriculture (USDA) Distance Learning & Telemedicine Program (DLT)
Telemedicine and Advanced Technology Research Center (TATRC)
Veterans Health Administration’s (VHA) Office of Telehealth Services (OTS)

Other Federal HIT Activities
Text-4-Baby
ONC and Meaningful Use
CMS Innovation

Key Websites
HRSA - http://www.hrsa.gov
ORHP - http://ruralhealth.hrsa.gov
OAT – http://www.hrsa.gov/ruralhealth/about/telehealth/
Telehealth Resource Centers – telehealthresourcecenters.org
Text4Baby - http://text4baby.org/about.html
ONC - http://healthit.hhs.gov
CMS Innovation - http://www.innovations.cms.gov/
PCAST - http://www.whitehouse.gov/administration/eop/ostp/
pcast/about
FCC USAC - http://www.usac.org/about/
USDA - http://www.rurdev.usda.gov
TATRC - http://www.tatrc.org
VHA - http://www.telehealth.va.gov/index.asp

Contact Sherilyn Pruitt, Director Office for the Advancement of Telehealth Office of Rural Health Policy, HRSA [email_address] 301-594-0819

Telehealth from a federal persepctive

by Lloyd Sirmons on Mar 15, 2011

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