Community Hospital Telehealth Consortium

Abstract

The Community Hospital Telehealth Consortium is a unique, forward-thinking, community-based healthcare service project organized around 5 not-for-profit community hospitals located throughout Louisiana and Mississippi. The central tenet of the CHTC project is the utilization of TeleHealth technology to improve and expand the opportunity for rural and urban underserved populations to receive quality, affordable health care. The CHTC's goals are to improve quality of and access to health care, to reduce system costs without jeopardizing outcomes, to position Louisiana and Mississippi for the emerging domestic marketplace, and to position Louisiana and Mississippi for the international marketplace. Considerable progress has been made in the second year of the project through our Telemedicine Clinics, our Home Health Telehealth initiatives, and our distance learning initiatives.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Apr 01, 2004
Accession Number
ADA424728

Entities

People

  • Elton L. Williams Jr.

Tags

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Communities
  • Consortiums
  • Contracts
  • Correctional Facilities
  • Diseases And Disorders
  • Distance Learning
  • Education
  • Health Care
  • Health Services
  • Hospitalizations
  • Hospitals
  • Learning
  • Louisiana
  • Medical Personnel
  • Mississippi
  • Pain
  • Telemedicine

Fields of Study

  • Medicine
  • Political science

Readers

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  • Medical or Health Care Field.