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ABOUT US
The TAO has adopted
five Objectives as the “pillars” for guiding the organization’s initial
services and action plan. They are to:
- Improve access
to high quality health care and other allied services through Telehealth
and Telemedicine.
- Promote
collaborations
that advance Telehealth and Telemedicine as a means for improving the
delivery of affordable high quality health care.
- Provide and
promote education
to facilitate the understanding of the possibilities and uses of
Telehealth and Telemedicine.
- Provide and
support technical assistance
to initiatives that
advance programs of Telehealth and Telemedicine in Oregon.
- Promote
research
that supports appropriate decision-making in the delivery of health care
using technology and telecommunications.
Program efforts include but are not limited to:
- 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.
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 Annual Meeting - 2007
BOARD of DIRECTORS
TAO SHARES
Adobe Acrobat .pdf files
ARTICLES of INCORPORATION
BYLAWS
CONFLICT of INTEREST POLICY
EXPENDITURE POLICY
MEETING CALENDAR: 2006 - 2007
PRESIDENT'S ANNUAL REPORT 2005 - 2006
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