The Office for the Advancement of Telehealth (OAT) improves access to quality health care through integrated telehealth services. OAT provides telehealth funding and administers programs focused on direct services, research, and technical assistance.
Which programs focus on technical assistance?
The Telehealth Resource Centers (TRCs) provide expert and customized telehealth technical assistance across the country. The TRCs provide training and support, disseminate information and research findings, promote effective collaboration, and foster the use of telehealth technologies to provide health care information and education for health care providers.
There are two types of HRSA Telehealth Resource Center programs:
- Two National TRCs focus on policy and technology.
- Twelve Regional TRCs are geographically located to facilitate activities at the local level.
Which programs focus on research?
The Telehealth Centers of Excellence program supports academic medical centers to implement innovative telehealth services in rural and urban areas and disseminates the findings through research publications. These centers serve as national models for implementing telehealth solutions that improve health outcomes and enhance access to care, especially in medically underserved areas.
The Telehealth Research Centers conduct clinically informed and policy-relevant health services research to expand the evidence base for telehealth services.
The Telehealth Rapid Response Center conducts rapid telehealth data analyses and short-term, issue-specific telehealth research studies to provide stakeholders and the public with resources to understand the impact of telehealth policies and regulations.
Which programs focus on direct services?
The Telehealth Nutrition Services Network Grant Program supports telehealth networks that improve access to quality health care services through telehealth technology. This program will focus on chronic disease prevention and chronic disease management through comprehensive telehealth nutrition services.
View the Telehealth Nutrition Services Network Grant Program awardees.
The Behavioral Health Integration Evidence Based Telehealth Network Program integrates behavioral health services into primary care locations using telehealth and telehealth networks.
The program uses telehealth and telehealth networks in rural and underserved areas to:
- Improve access to behavioral health services in primary care settings
- Expand and improve the quality of health information available to health care providers by evaluating the model’s effectiveness
View the Behavioral Health Integration (BHI) Evidence Based Telehealth Network Program (EB-TNP) awardees.
Which programs focus on workforce?
The Licensure Portability Grant Program supports partnerships between states to make telehealth more accessible. It supports professional licensing boards in carrying out programs under which licensing boards of various states cooperate to develop and implement state laws and related policies that will reduce statutory and regulatory barriers to telemedicine.
View the Licensure Portability Grant Program (LPGP) awardees
The Technology-Enabled Collaborative Learning Program supports the use of technology-enabled collaborative learning to improve retention of health care providers and increase access to health care services in rural and underserved areas.
View the Technology-Enabled Collaborative Learning Program (TCLP) awardees.