[TAO] Applicants Sought for HRSA's Telehealth Network Grant Program

[Catherine Britain]

>From Federal Telemedicine News:

HRSA seeks applicants for the “Telehealth Network Grant Program (TNGP)
(HRSA 16-012) with an estimated total program funding for $6,000,000. The
purpose for the TNGP is to demonstrate how telehealth networks in rural,
frontier and underserved communities can expand access, coordinate, and
improve the quality of healthcare services.

The TNGP grant program is in place to expand the training of healthcare
providers, and/or expand and improve the quality of health information
available to providers and patients Eligible applicants may include
nonprofits, for-profits, faith-based and community-based organizations, and
tribal organizations.

The grant program is especially looking to encourage telehealth services to
be delivered through School-Based Health Centers (SBHC). SBHCs are strongly
encouraged to provide telehealth services for rural children with a focus
on asthma, obesity reduction and prevention, behavioral health diabetes,
and oral health.

These health conditions were selected from a review of the literature on
rural child health as identified by the HHS Office of the Assistant
Secretary for Planning and Evaluation as a way that telehealth can be an
effective way to provide service.

Applicants need to describe how the use of telehealth technology may
improve outcomes for the target population and set targets for that
population in each identified clinical area. For example, to demonstrate
expanding access to care, applicants would be expected to show how they
improved access to healthcare services that would not reasonably have been
available without the use of telehealth technologies.

The closing date for applications is April 8, 2016 with 20 awards expected.
For more information, go to www.grants.gov or email Carlos Mena at
emena at hrsa.gov or call 301-443-3198.

-- 
Catherine S. Britain, Executive Director
Telehealth Alliance of Oregon
csbritain at gmail.com
541-910-7366
www.ortelehealth.org
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