Success Stories by Topic: Telehealth

• Outreach Rural Health for Rural Maine
  May 2009
  This project was designed to expand home care services for patients with anxiety and depression in the easternmost counties of the United States—Aroostook County and Washington County.
• Fairview-University of Minnesota Telemedicine Network
  July 2008
  A network to serve patients by telemedicine not just in hospitals, but in rural clinics, homes and long term care facilities.
• Focus on Telehealth
  September 2007
  A home-focused technology project in northeastern Kentucky is leading to improved patient outcomes.
• Shared Information Technology (IT) Services
  August 2007
  The Community Health Network was formed to share information technology (IT) resources among varying sized community health organizations across Tennessee, from one doctor, one location, to much larger groups in multiple locations.
• Wadena's Telemedicine Program
  January 2007
  Tri-County Hospital (TCH) has been providing medical specialist outreach via telemedicine since 1994. This 25-bed Critical Access Hospital in Wadena, Minnesota has one of the most active telemedicine programs in the country and is the headquarters for the new Minnesota Telehealth Network. This network will extend telemedicine services to 38 Minnesota counties and eight North Dakota counties.
• Rural Dementia Telemedicine Initiative Project
  January 2007
  The goal of the Rural Dementia Telemedicine Initiative (RDTI) project is to establish a long-term, sustainable method of service delivery to Alzheimer's (dementia) patients, caregivers, and health care professionals involved in the delivery of diagnosis, disease management, and treatment in rural and underserved communities of Nevada and other western states.
• The CEI: Project Outreach
  January 2007
  This project aims to improve many aspects of healthcare in St. Mary and surrounding Parishes.
• Dakota Network of Community Health Centers
  May 2006
  This program has an Electronic Health Information Management Network with fully interactive video conferencing in place and it is being utilized to the benefit of the Dakota Network Collaborating Organizations and the patients served.
• TelEmergency
  January 2006
  In response to a lack of emergency care and physicians in many rural areas of Mississippi, the University of Mississippi Medical Center (UMC) has developed and directs the operation of a rural health telemedicine initiative called TelEmergency. Rural hospitals have contracted with UMC to allow the Emergency Medicine specialist backup for the nurse practitioners who completed the program and were hired by the local facility. When these nurse practitioners staff the rural Emergency Department, they communicate with Emergency Medicine physicians at UMC via T-1 lines and a sophisticated telemedicine setup.