U.S. Federal Agencies
Reports
State Links
Other Telemedicine Links
The Universal Service Program

• Appalachian Regional Commission
  http://www.arc.gov/programs/reginit/telecom.htm

The Department of Agriculture

• Rural Utilities Service
  http://www.usda.gov/rus/
• Rural Information Center Health Service (RICHS)
  http://www.nal.usda.gov/ric/ruralres/telehealth.htm

The Department of Commerce

• National Telecommunication and Information Administration (NTIA)
  http://www.ntia.doc.gov
• Technology Opportunities Program (TOP)
  http://www.ntia.doc.gov/otiahome/top/index.html

Department of Defense

• Center for Total Access
  http://www.cta.ha.osd.mil/
• Dept. of Defense Telemedicine Research Center
  http://www.matmo.org

Department of Energy

• Los Alamos National Lab-Telemedicine
  http://www.acl.lanl.gov/telemed

Department of Health and Human Services

• healthfinder®
  http://www.healthfinder.gov
  A consumer health and human services information link

Food and Drug Administration

• Telemedicine-related activities of the Center for Devices and Radiological Health, FDA
  http://www.fda.gov/cdrh/telemed.html

Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) - Formerly the Health Care Finance Administration (HCFA)
http://www.hcfa.gov

• Medicaid and Telemedicine
  http://www.hcfa.gov/medicaid/telemed.htm
• States where Medicaid reimburses for telemedicine
  http://www.hcfa.gov/medicaid/telelist.htm

Office of Rural Health Policy (ORHP)
http://www.ruralhealth.hrsa.gov

• ORHP-Sponsored Telemedicine Report in Adobe Acrobat
  ftp://ftp.hrsa.gov/finalabt.pdf

National Library of Medicine
http://www.nlm.nih.gov/research/telfront.html

• NLM, Funding for Telemedicine Projects
  http://www.nlm.nih.gov/research/funding.html

The Department of Veterans Administration

• Dept. of Veterans Affairs - Telemedicine Projects
  http://www.va.gov/telemed/default.htm

National Aeronautics & Space Administration
http://www.nttc.edu/telemed.html

Reports

• Telehealth: Promise or Peril?
  http://www.nursingworld.org/ojin/topic16/tpc16toc.htm
• Dept. of Commerce Telemedicine Report to Congress
  http://www.ntia.doc.gov/reports/telemed/index.htm
  
• General Accounting Office Report Telemedicine: Federal Strategy Is Needed to Guide Investments
  http://www.gao.gov/AIndexFY97/abstracts/n397067.htm
• Exploratory Evaluation of Rural Applications of Telemedicine (ABT REPORT) (Adobe Acrobat Format 442KB)
  ftp://ftp.hrsa.gov/finalabt.pdf

State Links

• Alaska Telemedicine Project
  http://www.telemedicine.alaska.edu/
• California Telemedicine/Telehealth Project
  http://www.calhealth.org/aboutcha_spcltycntrs.htm
• Montana Healthcare Telecommunications/Telemedicine Alliance
  http://www.ahec.msu.montana.edu/mhta/default.html

Other Telemedicine Links

• American Telemedicine Association
  http://www.atmeda.org/
• Association of Telehealth Service Providers
  http://www.atsp.org
• Center for Telemedicine Law
  http://www.ctl.org
• International Society for Telemedicine
  http://www.isft.org
• National Council of State Boards of Nursing
  http://www.ncsbn.org/files/mutual.asp
• Telemedicine Information Exchange
  http://tie.telemed.org
• Telemedicine Today magazine
  http://www.telemedtoday.com
• Capital Area Rural Health Roundtable
  http://www.gmu.edu/departments/chp/rhr/
• www.telemedicinelawyer.com
  http://www.telemedicinelawyer.com

The Universal Service Program

The Universal Service Program provides discounts for telecommunications services to rural health care providers, schools, and libraries.

• The Universal Service Rural Health Care Program (Call toll free at 1-800-229-5476, open 8 am to 8 pm, Eastern Time.)
• Video excerpt from"Universal Service: Encouraging the Growth of Telehealth in Rural Areas."
  http://www.hitn.com/universal.html
  • Requires the Vivo video player for your Web Browser. Download the player
    http://egg.real.com/vivo-player/vivodl.html
• A videotape of a November 19th, 1998 broadcast on the Universal Service discounts can be acquired from the producer, Health Informatics Telecom Network at 1-800-295-0051.
• Questions and Answers on Universal Service Benefits for Rural Health Care Providers from the FCC
  http://www.fcc.gov/Bureaus/Common_Carrier/Public_Notices/
  1997/da971932.html
• Federal Communications Commission Healthnet
  http://www.fcc.gov/healthnet
• National Exchange Carrier Association (Universal Service Program)
  http://www.neca.org/
• Improving the Operational Definition of "Rural Areas" for Federal Programs (the Goldsmith modifications)
  http://www.nal.usda.gov/orhp/Goldsmith.htm