The Arizona Telemedicine Program at the University of Arizona College of Medicine has received a $1.13 million federal grant to create the Southwest Regional Telehealth Resource Center, the Arizona Daily Star reports (Arizona Daily Star, 9/12).
The resource center aims to help health care providers and other telemedicine users with:
- Business plan development;
- Clinical application needs assessments;
- Electronic health record selection, implementation and management;
- Facility design;
- Grant writing;
- Legal, regulatory and reimbursement issues; and
- Technical EHR concerns.
The project will promote telemedicine in:
- Arizona;
- Colorado;
- Nevada;
- New Mexico; and
- Utah.
The center also will be part of a national network of seven regional resource centers and the nationwide Center for Telehealth and E-Health Law.
The grant funding comes from the Office for the Advancement of Telehealth, which is part of HHS' Health Resources and Services Administration (Monegain, Healthcare IT News, 9/14).