Strategic Objectives

• To establish partnerships with local health care providers, both institution based and private practitioners, to ensure access to high quality medical care
• To reduce the travel times necessary to obtain medical consultations and treatments
• To provide continuing medical education to health professionals in rural communities
• To provide educational opportunities for young people seeking health careers in rural communities
• To provide rural families with support systems in their homes, to ensure more effective management of chronic diseases
• To develop action plans that conform to existing resource realities in rural and medically underserved communities, particularly around communications, staff turnover, isolation, economic impact, and return on investments
• To develop and implement research plans that demonstrate the effectiveness of telemedicine on health care utilization and outcomes, that reduces medical errors through better, more accessible information, that provides opportunities to eliminate health disparities through technology, and that focuses attention on improving health outcomes by stimulating patient empowerment
• To implement a "telehealth testbed" where best of the breed eHealth technologies can be conceived, developed, prototyped, and tested prior to dissemination
• To develop an online educational program that provides concentrated information regarding telemedicine development, with a special emphasis of telemedicine business development, return on investment, and sustainability
  • Telemedicine Business Planning Development
  • Case Study Evidence Documenting Returns on Investment with TM
  • Billing and Coding Procedures & Techniques
• To establish a mechanism which ensures that interpretive services are provided and accomplished for non-English speaking patients in an efficient, culturally competent, and timely manner, throughout the network
• To extend the power and potential of telemedicine capabilities into the pre-hospital, emergency, and disaster planning communities.
• To engage in diabetic patient health in the rural communities, in multiple languages, including Spanish, Vietnamese, Tagalog
• To engage in frequent dissemination activities targeted at students, faculty, and patients to stimulate a wider recognition of the value and role of telemedicine
• To collaborate with other academic and service institutions in promotion eHealth technologies, including simulation modeling, eICU monitoring and integrating telemedicine into the ongoing fabric of medical care in the U.S.