Funding Resources

U.S. National Library of Medicine
Office of High Performance Computing and Communications (OHPCC)
Lister Hill National Center for Biomedical Communications (LHNCBC)
Bethesda, MD 20894, Telephone 301-402-4100.
- NLM Contracts and Purchasing

U.S. National Library of Medicine
Contracts and Purchasing
Bethesda, MD 20894
- NLM Contracts and Purchasing

U.S. National Library of Medicine
Division of Extramural Programs
Bethesda, MD 20894
- Grants and Other Assistance Mechanisms

U.S. National Network of Libraries of Medicine (NN/LM)
- http://www.nnlm.nlm.nih.gov

U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS)
- Many DHHS Agencies list funding opportunities on their web sites.
- Office for the Advancement of Telehealth (OAT).
- GrantsNet is a tool for locating information about DHHS grant programs.
- The NIH Office of Extramural Research maintains the CRISP system, a major biomedical database containing information on research projects and programs supported by DHHS.

U.S. Department of Commerce (DOC)
- National Institute of Standards & Technology Advanced Technology Program. http://www.atp.nist.gov/
- National Telecommunications & Information Administration. http://www.ntia.doc.gov/
  - Technology Opportunities Program (TOP). http://www.ntia.doc.gov/otiahome/top/
  - Public Telecommunications Facilities Program (PTFP). http://www.ntia.doc.gov/otiahome/ptfp/ptfphome.html

U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA)
- USDA Rural Utilities Service. http://www.usda.gov/rus/
  - Distance Learning and Telemedicine. http://www.usda.gov/rus/dlt/dlml/htm

Universal Service Order providing eligible rural health careproviders with financial support for telecommunications services.
- Universal Service Administrative Company (USAC).
  Rural Health Care Program. http://www.rhc.universalservice.org/

Locating Other Funding Resources
- GPO (U.S. Government Printing Office) ACCESS. http://www.access.gpo.gov/su_docs/db2.html
- Telemedicine Information Exchange. http://tie.telemed.org
- RICHS: Rural Information Center Health Service. http://www.nal.usda.gov/ric/richs/
- DoD Telemedicine Testbed. http://www.matmo.org
- NASA Telemedicine Technology Gateway. http://www.nttc.edu/telemed.html

Last updated: 03 May 2001