Colorado Tele-health Network Offering Broadband Subsidies

"Colorado Tele-health Network (CTN) has a consortium of agencies receiving a subsidy from the Federal Communications Commission (FCC). This subsidy is called the Healthcare Connect Fund. Recipients of the subsidy (which includes participants in CTN's consortium) receive funding for 65% of an organization's' cost for broadband services.

Charlie Wick, with CTN, explained that "public and not-for-profit health care providers are eligible to receive support under the Healthcare Connect Fund. 'Health care provider' is defined by statute as hospitals, rural health clinics, local health departments, community health centers or health centers providing healthcare to migrant workers and post-secondary educational institutions offering health care instruction, teaching hospitals, and medical schools."

If you are interested in learning more CTN's consortium and receiving a 65% subsidy for the broadband costs, you can contact:

Charlie Wick
Colorado Telehealth Network (CTN)
Broadband Expansion Outreach
Phone: 720-217-3518
Email: charlie.wick@cotelehealth.net"

[Source: COPrevent]

Colorado Telehealth Network offers subsidies to Community Safety Net Clinics

“The Colorado Telehealth Network (CTN) seeks to maximize access to health care services, especially in underserved regions of Colorado, through information and communications technology. Presently CTN provides subsidized broadband connectivity to 200 behavioral and physical health care sites in Colorado, and is happy to announce they can now offer their programs to Community Safety Net Clinics!

As a Community Safety Net Clinic you are likely eligible to save a substantial amount of money on your telecom expenses through CTN’s federal program. To find out how CTN can help apply these subsidies to your telecom budget, please contact Tracy Hines, Member Service Manager: 720-330-6069 or tracy.hines@cha.com. Thank you in advance for your interest!” [Source: CTN]

EHR adoption, telemedicine feasible for Colorado's rural providers

"Rural health care -- despite numerous grants from the federal government -- generally gets the short end of the health IT stick when it comes to deploying a serviceable Internet connection. It is no different in Colorado, where laying fiber is a difficult and expensive process, and satellite reception is hard to come by in the mountainous and farmland regions.

However, thanks to a collaboration between the Colorado Regional Health Information Organization (CORHIO) -- the state's official HIE -- and the Colorado Telehealth Network (CTN), rural providers are not on the outside looking in for electronic health record (EHR) adoption and, eventually, telemedicine services via broadband Internet..." Read More (Source: HealthIT)