The Health Resources and Services Administration has awarded a three year, $1.1 million grant to the University of Minnesota for the Great Plains Telehealth Resource and Assistance Center (GPTRAC).
The GPTRAC will serve a six state area including Minnesota, Iowa, North Dakota, South Dakota and Wisconsin. Directed by Professor Stuart Speedie and located within the Institute for Health Informatics of the Academic Health Center, the GPTRAC strives to promote health care services that take advantage of modern telecommunications technologies such as interactive videoconferencing, the secure internet and home health monitoring. It has a special focus solving health care delivery problems for rural providers and their patients. It promotes solutions to problems of access to and quality of care using telehealth applications.
The GPTRAC’s goals are to a) increase awareness of telehealth among health care practitioners and the public, b) educate health care professions and organizations in the uses of the telehealth and c) to provide technical assistance in the form of consultation services. It will provide this technical assistance to health care providers and organizations who are interested in either offering medical care services via telemedicine or in using those telehealth services provided by other organizations.
For further information please contact Zoi Hills, Project Manager at gptrac@umn.edu or 612-625-9938.
Source: University of Minnesota Press Release
