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ABOUT US
Membership in TAO is
open to anyone interested in supporting the purpose and goals of the
organization. If you are a telehealth service provider, an organization
interested in providing telehealth services, a supplier of equipment,
software or transport for telehealth service, a healthcare insurance
provider or someone interested in improving healthcare through
telecommunications, we hope you will consider joining us.
TAO
Vision
Access
to affordable quality healthcare for all Oregonians.
TAO
Mission
To
advance telehealth knowledge, practice and policy in Oregon.
TAO
Objectives
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Improve access
to high quality health care and healthcare workforce education through the
use of broadband telecommunications;
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Promote collaborations
that advance the use of telehealth to deliver affordable high quality
health care;
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Provide and promote education
about telehealth;
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Provide technical assistance
to existing telehealth programs or healthcare providers seeking to
establish telehealth programs in Oregon; and
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Promote research
that supports appropriate decision-making for telehealth providers,
insurers and policy makers.
TAO
Efforts Include
- Developing
specific resources, including the acquisition of equipment and
infrastructure, needed to provide a broad array of telehealth services to
Oregonians;
- Providing a
vehicle for organizations and practitioners to aggregate demand for
purchasing telecommunications services to gain the benefits of economies
of scale necessary to make telehealth services affordable;
- Providing
technical and research assistance to aid organizations, agencies and
providers in making decisions about their technology and
telecommunications services needs and in planning to acquire these
services;
- Investigating and
studying conditions and possibilities that will result in the removal of
barriers to telehealth services providers in serving Oregonians;
- Assembling and
coordinating information relative to the status, scope, cost and
possibilities of improving telehealth services in Oregon and reporting
such information to the health care community, state policy makers, and
the telecommunications services community;
- Publishing,
disseminating and distributing information and statistics acquired on the
impacts of the improvements, or the lack thereof, of telehealth services
in Oregon; and
- Cooperating with
health care providers, payers, telecommunications providers, planning
agencies and policy makers for the purpose of promoting collaborations to
improve access to and delivery of telehealth services.
BOARD OF DIRECTORS
Adobe Acrobat .pdf files
ARTICLES of INCORPORATION
BYLAWS
CONFLICT of INTEREST POLICY
EXPENDITURE POLICY
MEETING CALENDAR: 2010
PRESIDENT'S ANNUAL REPORT 2009
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