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Advancing telehealth knowledge, practice and policy in Oregon.


 

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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

  • Improve access to high quality health care and healthcare workforce education through the use of broadband telecommunications;

  • Promote collaborations that advance the use of telehealth to deliver affordable high quality health care;

  • Provide and promote education about telehealth;

  • Provide technical assistance to existing telehealth programs or healthcare providers seeking to establish telehealth programs in Oregon; and

  • 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.

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ARTICLES of INCORPORATION 
BYLAWS  
CONFLICT of INTEREST POLICY
EXPENDITURE POLICY
MEETING CALENDAR: 2010  
PRESIDENT'S ANNUAL REPORT 2009

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Revised: July 28, 2010