SACRAMENTO, April 3, 2012 – UnitedHealthcare has
donated $700,000 to the California Telehealth Network to help
expand telemedicine training and provide technical support for
rural and medically underserved clinics and hospitals in
California.
California Telehealth Network (CTN) is the Golden State’s
statewide
SACRAMENTO, February 21, 2012 – The California
Telehealth Network (CTN), today announced that its membership has
reached the milestone of 100 sites with direct connections.
California Telehealth Network is California’s statewide
partnership for telehealth utilizing broadband technology to
expand access to health care with a focus on rural and medically
underserved communities.
SACRAMENTO, January 24, 2012 – The California
Telehealth Network (CTN), announced the release of public service
announcements (PSA), to highlight the availability of telehealth
services in local communities. Featured health care providers
include: Catalina Island Medical Center, Clinicas del Camino Real
in Ventura County, Community Health Alliance of Pasadena,
Children’s Dental Health Clinic of Long Beach, Ridgecrest
Hospital and Tarzana Treatment Centers. Beginning this month, the
commercials will air on Time Warner, Charter and Catalina Cable
systems. California Telehealth Network is California’s statewide
partnership for telehealth utilizing
SACRAMENTO, January 6, 2012 – The California
Telehealth Network (CTN) announced the appointment of Lawrence
Friedman, M.D to its board of directors representing the
California Medical Association.
The CTN is a statewide broadband network dedicated to healthcare
with the goal of significantly increasing access to acute,
primary and preventive health care in rural and medically
underserved areas of California.
“We are extremely pleased to have Dr. Friedman join the CTN
Board,” said Eric Brown, President and CEO of CTN.
SACRAMENTO, December 12, 2011 – On December 2,
the Board of the California Emerging Technology Fund (CETF)
presented a check for $1 million to the California Telehealth
Network (CTN), the largest FCC Rural Health Care Pilot Program in
the country. The funding will assist the CTN in continuing the
efforts to significantly increase access to broadband for
healthcare sites in rural and medically underserved communities
throughout California.
Sunne Wright McPeak, President and CEO of CETF, presented the $1
million grant to Eric Brown, President and CEO of CTN, at the
CETF Regional Leaders Workshop in San Francisco, CA.
“This $1 million investment is intended to support the ongoing
expansion of CTN as the premier telehealth provider
The new California Telehealth Network, a statewide, medical-grade
broadband system for improving health-care access and emergency
services, will receive a $9 million federal grant and additional
$5 million in matching funds for the network from three prominent
California organizations — the National Coalition for Health
Integration, United HealthCare and the California HealthCare
Foundation — and from the University of California. The grant
award announced today by U.S. Commerce Secretary Gary Locke will
fund telehealth and eHealth equipment and training for
health-care providers implementing broadband-based technologies
designed to improve care and expand access to services.
The new funding, part of the American Recovery and Reinvestment
Act’s Broadband Technology Opportunities Program, follows $30
million from the Federal Communications Commission, the
California Emerging Technology Fund and the California Public
Utilities Commission to build and connect the network. The grant
supports extensive online, in-person and community-based training
in a range of technologies designed to increase the public’s
digital literacy. It also will help fund network operations, as
well as the installation of broadband equipment — typically
consisting of a videoconferencing unit and special cameras to
record clinical information — to establish new telehealth
programs in various communities around the state.
A telehealth consortium led by the University of California
Office of the President and the UC Davis Health System — formed
to create a statewide broadband system for health care — has
selected AT&T to build a secure, medical-grade
telecommunications system as part of the California Telehealth
Network. The project will connect hundreds of health care
providers throughout the state, making it one of the largest
networks dedicated to health care in the nation.
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