telehealth from a federal persepctive
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Teleconnect for Better Health
Georgia Partnership for Telehealth
Sherilyn Pruitt, MPHU.S. Department of Health and Human ServicesHealth Resources and Services Administration
Office of Rural Health PolicyOffice 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
82%
3%
11%3% 1%
FY 2010 Budget: $185.5 Million
Grant Awards and Cooperative Agreements ($152.5M)
Rural Health Research ($5.5M)
Contracts/IAA ($20.8M)
HRSA Costs ($6.1M)
Other ($615K)
Office for the Advancement of Telehealth (OAT)
New Addition to ORHP…• Telehealth Network Grants
• Telehealth Resource Centers
• Licensure Portability Grant
Program
OAT Funding HistoryFiscal 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 Grantees0
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 tocontinue 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
ContactSherilyn Pruitt, Director
Office for the Advancement of Telehealth Office of Rural Health Policy, HRSA