Friday, January 20th, 2012 at 04:17
Designing Appropriate Computing Technologies for the Rural Developing World Tapan Parikh [Assistant Professor, School of Information, UC Berkeley] Abstract: People living in the rural developing world have many information needs that could, but are not, being met by information technology.
Technologies for this context must be low-cost, accessible to diverse populations and appropriate for the local ...
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Tuesday, January 17th, 2012 at 04:17
The Rural Health Care Program of the Universal Service Fund (USF), which is administered by the Universal Service Administrative Company (USAC), is a support program authorized by Congress and designed by the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to provide reduced rates to rural health care providers (HCPs) for telecommunications services and Internet access charges related to ...
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Sunday, November 14th, 2010 at 15:29
National Summit on Health Care Quality and Value October 4, 2010 US Capitol Visitor Center Auditorium Welcome -Peter Lee, Director of Delivery System Reform, Office of Health Reform, HHS The Administration's Agenda for Improving Quality and Value @4:30 and www.youtube.com -Kathleen Sebelius, Secretary, HHS Panel @26:33 Designing High Value Health Care: Lessons from the Field ...
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Thursday, October 21st, 2010 at 07:47
Dr. Alice Alino is a guest at Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger's launch of the country's largest telemedicine network. Considering her pioneering work with the UC Davis telemedicine group, Dr. Alino's rural clinic in Oroville was chosen as one of 4 pilot sites for this great initiative.
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Tuesday, September 21st, 2010 at 09:06
The FCC's Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NPRM) to expand the Rural Health Care (RHC) Program was published in the Federal Register on August 9th. Program stakeholders are encouraged to review the NPRM and submit their comments to the FCC.
Comments due September 8, 2010
Reply Comments due September 23, 2010
The ...
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Tuesday, September 21st, 2010 at 08:37
Overview of the Rural Health Care Program
The Rural Health Care Program of the Universal Service Fund makes discounts available to eligible rural health care providers for telecommunication services and monthly Internet service charges. The program is intended to ensure that rural health care providers pay no ...
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Thursday, September 16th, 2010 at 19:14
State Health Information Exchange Cooperative Agreement Program
http://healthit.hhs.gov/portal/server.pt?open=512&objID=1488&parentname=CommunityPage&parentid=58&mode=2&in_hi_userid=11113&cached=true
In March 2010, ONC completed the announcement of State Health Information (State HIE) Exchange Cooperative Agreement Program awardees. In total, 56 states, eligible territories, and qualified State Designated Entities (SDE) received awards.
The State HIE Cooperative Agreement Program funds states’ efforts to rapidly build capacity for exchanging health information across ...
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Thursday, September 16th, 2010 at 19:02
HITECH and Funding Opportunities
http://healthit.hhs.gov/portal/server.pt/community/healthit_hhs_gov__hitech_and_funding_opportunities/1310
The Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health (HITECH) Act amends Title XXX of the Public Health Service Act by adding a number of funding opportunities to advance health information technology. As funding opportunities were awarded the relevant programmatic information was made available on the HITECH Program section of this site.There ...
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Friday, August 6th, 2010 at 13:49
Arkansas Telehealth Network – Four existing networks will be consolidated and expanded using T1-grade connections to encompass approximately 245 non-profit sites, enabling better patient care, including electronic records management, and coordinating responses to major public health incidents.
ARKANSAS TELEHEALTH OVERSIGHT & MANAGEMENT
www.arktelehealth.org
Contact: Bruce Thomasson
Workdays: Tuesday/Wednesday
email: thomasson@swbell.net
CONCEPT
Working collaboratively, groups of hospitals and clinics are positioned to ...
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Thursday, August 5th, 2010 at 17:22
Arizona Rural Community Health Information Exchange – New OC-3 fiber connections to an existing network and Internet2 connection will link approximately 15 healthcare facilities to an existing centralized hub. The network will provide multidisciplinary telemedicine, distance learning, and technology assessment services.
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