Nineteen telemedicine projects in 13 states win $42 million in grants
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WASHINGTON, D.C.—The Clinton Administration has announced plans to fund 19 telemedicine projects in 13 states and the District of Columbia, affecting rural, inner-city and suburban areas. Total funding of $42 million will be distributed to:
• Los Angeles—provide care to center city elderly and offshore islands;
• West Virginia—provide consultation with specialists for remote rural areas;
• Massachusetts—provide care to high-risk newborns and their families;
• Maryland—transmit vital sign data from ambulances to trauma centers;
• New York—improve disease prevention and manage chronic illnesses in home;
• Missouri—prevent adverse drug interactions among the elderly;
• Washington—provide access to health information in remote western areas;
• San Diego—provide patients with access to their own medical records;
• San Francisco—transmit brain and breast images for telediagnosis;
• Iowa—video consultations for patients with special needs;
• Missouri—connect rural providers in four communities;
• Indiana—provide rapid access to patient records for emergency situations and transmit infection and immunization data to public health officials (2 projects);
• Chicago—provide computer systems to assist in outpatient care;
• District of Columbia-provide telemedicine service for kidney dialysis patients;
• Massachusetts—improve availability of information on disease prevention;
• Alaska—evaluate applications for improving care in remote areas;
• Oregon—use teledermatology to diagnose and treat conditions including cancer;
• Pennsylvania—provide rapid access to clinical images to speed cancer diagnosis.
Contact National Library of Medicine at 301-496-6308.
New York and Arkansas to pilot cash and counseling programs
WASHINGTON, D.C.—New York and Arkansas have been awarded grants to run "cash and counseling" demonstration projects for Medicaid recipients with disabilities. The grants were awarded by Health and Human Services (HHS) and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. New York will receive $498,738 and Arkansas will receive $448,294.
The cash and counseling approach to financing long-term care allows consumers and their families to make their own decisions about what support services to purchase. The recipients receive cash instead of having their services paid directly by the Medicaid program. The cash and counseling approach cultivates informal care, as consumers may hire relatives, friends and others to assist them. Information on hiring, training, supervising and paying personal assistants is provided as part of the counseling component. Arkansas and New York were selected from 17 states that applied for the grants.
Nineteen telemedicine projects in 13 states win $42 million in grants
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