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A EXAMPLES OF FEDERAL TELEMEDICINE GRANTS
A EXAMPLES OF FEDERAL TELEMEDICINE GRANTS
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Byrd Health Sciences Center, Morgantown, West Virginia Amount of award: $800,000 (1994)
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to connect the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill with three rural sites: Roanoke Amaranth Community Health Group, Our Community Hospital, and Halifax Memorial Hospital. Building on a five-year clinical program of interdisciplinary geriatric assessment, the fiber optic network will support interactive video consultations among the four sites.
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. The Mid-Nebraska Telemedicine Network is a consortium of five rural hospitals and Good Samaritan Health Systems (a regional referral center that includes Good Samaritan Hospital, an acute care facility, and Richard Young Hospital, a psychiatric and chemical dependency hospital)
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Center for Health Sciences Communication and the Eastern Area Health Education Center. Funding from ORHP was used to support specialty consultations from ECU School of Medicine to Chowan Hospital in Edenton and Goshen Medical Center in Faison.
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The Rural Telemedicine Grant funding served as a catalyst for obtaining additional private funding that supports expansion of the network to six additional rural hospitals, the Ellis Fische! Cancer Center, and the Kirksville College of Orthopaedic Medicine.
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As described in the HPCC News, a National Library of Medicine newsletter for the High Performance Computing and Communications program, the projects most directly involving telemedicine applications include the following. Testbe`d Networks Toward a National Coliaboratory of Health care Informatics This project is a collaboration involving three medical informatics research groups (Trustees of Columbia University, Brigham & Women's Hospital, and Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University)
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Collaborative Technology for Real-time Treatment of Patients A Comprehensive Teledlermatology Program This program of the Oregon Health Sciences University will involve the remote diagnosis of skin lesions via teleconsultation to primary care clinics in underserved rural areas of Oregon. Implementation of a Teleradiology System to Enhance Consultative Services Between Primary and Secondary Care Hospitals and a Tertiary Care Facility This project will link six outlying hospitals in western Pennsylvania with the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center for teleradiology to improve neurosurgery, neurology, trauma, and critical care.
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HEALTH CARE FINANCING ADMINISTRATION, DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES Iowa Health System Teleme`dicine Demonstration A grant was awarded in September 1993 for the "Evaluation of Clinical and Educational Services to Rural Hospitals via Fiber Optic Cable." University of Michigan School of Public Health, Medical College of Georgia, and MDTV of West Virginia This three-year project (sponsored at $1,265,651) consists of developing, testing, and implementing a detailed methodology for evaluating telemedicine.
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Columbia University Health Sciences Division, New York Amount of award: $733,424 (1994~. Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center, the New York City Department of Health, and the Visiting Nurse Services of NYC coflaborated to develop and demonstrate an information infrastructure to provide coordinated care to tuberculosis patients in the home, doctor's office, and hospital.
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Three tertiary care facilities, a rural hub site, and ten rural physicians are .
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