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Quality healthcare
everywhere
through telecommunications!
EVENTS and PROJECTS
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Telehealth Alliance of Oregon Annual Meeting
December 11th,
2008, 9 am – 3 pm
Oregon Health and Science Univ., Market Square Bldg.,
1515 SW 5th Ave., Suite 900, Portland, Oregon
Meeting Highlights Include
A Telestroke Forum
Telemedicine Reimbursement Legislation
Strategy
Oregon Shares – Telemedicine Activities
Visit from the InTouch Robot
The Annual Membership Meeting
Download the Registration Form and Information
HERE!
or contact Cathy Britain at
csbritain@gmail.com
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Oregon Health Network
The Oregon Health Network (OHN) is an Oregon
not-for-profit public benefit corporation formed to expand broadband
capacity in Oregon to support telemedicine and health care education. OHN's
goal is to provide universal access to the highest level of health care
services throughout Oregon in both rural and urban communities.
Please visit
www.oregonhealthnet.org to
learn more.
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Telemedicine Reimbursement
Legislation
TAO is working closely
with Sen. Laurie Monnes Anderson, chair of the Senate Committee for Health
and Human Services, to convene a workgroup of interested healthcare
providers and payers to develop a fully vetted reimbursement bill for the
2009 session and to raise awareness of its importance to healthcare in
Oregon.
If you are interested in joining the reimbursement workgroup or the
reimbursement listserv, please contact Cathy Britain at
csbritain@gmail.com. Read more HERE.
NEW POSTINGS
The Value of Provider-to-Provider Telehealth Technologies
"Telehealth technologies, the use of communications technology to
transmit medical information from one location to another, have evolved to
remove geography as a barrier to care by allowing patients to receive care
when and where they need it. These technologies bring the promise of ending
access-to-care issues for both medically underserved areas and
under-represented specialties. ..."
<read more at
http://www.citl.org/_pdf/CITL_Telehealth_Report.pdf>
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