Telehealth is the future for
Colorado
. . . and the future is now!
- With a growing shortage of health care professionals
- and a rapidly growing population of elderly needing home care
- With long distances separating Colorado providers from
homebound patients
- With vast regions of the state so sparsely populated
that providing health care in the home under traditional
models becomes economically impossible
- And with a growing inventory of cost-effective, high
tech monitoring devices and systems
- And with a recognition that home is where the healing
begins and that every Coloradoan deserves the right to
healing at home
The Colorado Foundation for
Home Care Technology and Education was created
to spur and nurture the development of accessible,
high-quality and cost-efficient home and community based
health care in Colorado through education, information and
technology.
Foundation board members elected 9/18/06 are:
Sue Brown, President
Sonya Neumann, Vice President
Erin Denholm, Secretary
Sue Birch, Treasurer
Ellen Caruso was elected Executive Director
The Foundation's core purposes
are:
- To assist home health and home care agencies and
facilitate their communications with members of the public
that may benefit from home health and home care;
- To educate and train home health and home care
personnel including administrators, clinicians, and
paraprofessionals on cost effective business practices,
quality care services, and use of new health care
technologies;
- To educate and train home health and home care
referral sources on the benefits of new health care
technologies in the home setting;
- To initiate the use of technology and other electronic
monitoring and treatment systems and devices ("Telehealth
Systems") for use by home health and home care agencies
for their clients;
- To assist home health and home care agencies for which
it would otherwise be difficult or impossible to afford
new technologies, with particular emphasis on home health
and home care agencies operating in rural or underserved
areas;
- To evaluate the effectiveness of Telehealth Systems in
home health and home care; and
- To gather, assemble, analyze, showcase and distribute
data on the use of Telehealth Systems and other newly
emerging practices in home health and home care, aimed at
persuading third party payors to reimburse home health and
home care agencies for services rendered using Telehealth
Systems as a method of treatment that is cost effective as
well as highly satisfactory for the end user.
To learn more about Telehealth and how the Home Care
Association of Colorado played a key role in its development,
visit HCAC's Member-Only TeleHealth Central.
To read or download documents key to the formation of the
foundation, click on the following:
[Go
to Home Care Association of Colorado home page]
[Visit HCAC's Member-Only Telehealth Central]
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