HRSA - Telehealth Publications

HRSA - U.S Department of Health and Human Services, Health Resources and Service Administration

U.S. Department of Health & Human Services

Telehealth Publications

Access

Evolution & Summative Evaluation of the Alaska Federal Health Care Access Network Telemedicine Project (Adobe/pdf, HRSA grantee)
Telehealth and the Internet (August 2000)

Funding

Telehealth Funding Guide (January 2005)
Telemedicine Reimbursement Report (October 2003)
Telemedicine: Follow the Money (September 30, 2001, not a U.S. Government Web site) Dena S. Puskin, Sc.D., HRSA
USDA Announces Proposed Changes for 1999 Distance Learning and Telemedicine Loan and Grant Program (March 1999)
First Steps Toward Telemedicine Teimbursement (December 1998)

HRSA Telehealth Grantee Directories

Licensure

Telemedicine Licensure Report (June 2003)
Licensure Update (May 1999)

 Mental 
                                Health 

Telemental Health: Delivering Mental Health Care at a Distance (October 2001)

Privacy

Health Information Privacy Protection: Crisis or Common Sense? (September 30, 2001, not a U.S. Government Web site) Joanne K. Kumekawa, BA, MBA, HRSA
Final HIPAA Privacy Rules (February 2001)
Privacy Update (February 2000)
- Report on Seminar: Privacy, Security and Confidentiality of Medical Records (January 2000)

Reports to Congress 
                                & Legislative Updates

Telemedicine 2001 Report to Congress
Legislative Update (June 1999)
Reimbursement/Legislative Update (May 2000)
- Legislative Update At a Glance (May 2004)
Federal Telemedicine Directory 1998
Telemedicine Report to Congress (January 1997)

Technical 
                                Assistance

Technical Assistance Documents: A Guide to Getting Started in Telemedicine (HRSA grantee Web site)
Innovation, Demand and Investment in Telehealth (February 2004, not a U.S. Government Web site)
Future Technology Trends (November 1999)

Telemedicine

"Telehome Care: Is It in Your Future?" - CARING (Capital Area Roundtable on Informatics in Nursing) Magazine, August 1999.
"Rural Telemedicine Network Development: Early Lessons Learned from Eleven Rural Telemedicine Grantees" - Hospital and Health Services Administration 43 (2), April 1998.
"Program Activity in the Second Year of the Rural Telemedicine Grant Program," Parts I and II - Telemedicine Today, October and December, 1997.
Telemedicine Report to Congress - January 1997 "Rural Telemedicine Data/Image Transfer Methods and Purposes of Interactive Video Sessions" - Journal of the American Informatics Assoc., Vol. 4, No. 1, January/February 1997.
"Telemedicine: Building Rural Systems for Today and Tomorrow" - originally published in Information Networks for Community Health, 1997.
"Patient and Provider Acceptance of Telemedicine" - New Medicine, 1997.
"Rural Applications of Telemedicine" - Telemedicine Journal, Vol. 3, No. 3, Fall 1997.
"Rural Telemedicine: A National Snapshot" - Telemedicine Journal, Vol. 2, No. 1, 1996.
"Opportunities and Challenges to Telemedicine in Rural America" - Journal of Medical Systems, Vol. 19, No. 1, 1995.
"Joint Federal Initiative for Creating a Telemedicine Evaluation Framework" - Letter to the Editor, Telemedicine Journal, Volume 1, No. 4, 1995.
"Telemedicine Infrastructure Development" - Journal of Medical Systems, Vol. 19, No. 2, 1995.
"Improving the Operational Definition of 'Rural Areas' for Federal Programs" - Federal Office of Rural Health Policy, 1993.
"Telecommunications in Rural America: Opportunities and Challenges for the Health Care System" - Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, Dec. 17, 1992.
Telehealth in Action: OAT’s HRSA Exhibit Plays Role in Saving Woman’s Eyesight (date not available).
FYI: Rural Telemedicine Grantees Learn, Share at Annual Conference (date not available).

Universal 
                                Service 

Telehealth Update: Universal Service Update (December 1999)
Universal Service Fund: Options for the Future (February 1999)
- OAT grantee comments as compiled by the University of Missouri (October 12, 1998)
OAT Filing to FCC on Underserved Insular Areas (December 1999)
Letter to the FCC: Comments on Wireless Medical Telemetry Service (September 1999)
Letter to the FCC: Solutions to the Third Party Payment Issue (May 1999)

Telehealth Links

Universal Service for Rural Health Care Providers (Federal Communications Commission)

Distance Learning & Telemedicine Program (U.S. Department of Agriculture)

Innovation, Demand and Investment in Telehealth (Acrobat/pdf, U.S. Department of Commerce)

Technical Assistance Documents: A Guide to Getting Started in Telemedicine (HRSA grantee Web site)

American Telemedicine Association (not a U.S. Government Web site)

Telemedicine Information Exchange (not a U.S. Government Web site)