The California Telehealth Network (CTN) will connect over 300 California healthcare providers in underserved areas to a state- and nation-wide broadband network dedicated to healthcare. CTN is funded by the Federal Communications Commission, the California Emerging Technology Fund, and UnitedHealth/PacifiCare.
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About California Telehealth Network
The CTN is the product of an unprecedented statewide coalition of healthcare, technology, government, and other stakeholders, that drafted a proposal in spring 2007 to the Federal Communications Commission. Under the FCC's Rural Health Care Pilot Program - with the goal of significantly increasing access to acute, primary and preventive health care in rural America - the FCC will provide California with up to $22.1 million over three years. Additional funds for the CTN have been provided by the California Emerging Technology Fund, and UnitedHealth/PacifiCare.
The CTN project intends to leverage and build upon California's historic and recent investments in telehealth. In recent years, a number of exciting initiatives have been launched in California to advance the use of telecommunications and health care technology. Significant among these are Governor Schwarzenegger's Health Information Technology (HIT) Executive Order (S-12-06, signed July 2006), which allocated $240 million to achieve full information exchange between health care providers and stakeholders within ten years, and his Broadband Executive Order (S-23-06, signed November 2006), which established a broadband task force to promote broadband access and usage. Also important are efforts of the California Emerging Technology Fund (CETF), California's Telemedicine & eHealth Center's regional eHealth networks, the California Teleconnect Fund (administered by the California Public Utilities Commission), and the University of California's Proposition 1D funding.
"The accelerated deployment of broadband telecommunication technologies in California, specifically for use in telemedicine, is one of the top priorities of my administration."
As Governor of the State of California, I am pleased to endorse the University of California's application for the Federal Communications Commission Rural Health Care Pilot Program (FCC Pilot Program).
The accelerated deployment of broadband telecommunication technologies in California, specifically for use in telemedicine, is one of the top priorities of my administration. The FCC Pilot Program will complement and add great value to our State's Health Information Technology and Broadband Initiatives, which encourage public and private sector stakeholders to join with California's rural health care providers in developing a statewide telemedicine network. Read more of Governor Schwarzenegger's endorsement of the California Telehealth Network.
