National Frontier and Rural ATTC

ATTC Network Meeting12.12.12

University of Nevada, Reno

Summary of Goals

Serve as the national subject expert and key resource to PROMOTE the awareness and implementation of

telehealth technologies

Definitions

Telehealth ‘refers to the use of telecommunications and information technologies to provide access to health information and services across a geographical distance.’

Telemedicine ‘use of medical information exchanged from one site to another via electronic communications to improve patients’ health status’

Definitions

• Synchronous communications telephone counseling

• Asynchronous Communications email or web-based programs

• Some web-based programs include both type of communications

Telehealth is not about technology itself but is a bridge to relationship with the patient in order to

provide care. Shore, 2012

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Brief Review of Research

Telehealth Research

• 141 Randomized Control Trials–148 telemedicine interventions with

nearly 37,000 patients–108 of the trials were favorable toward

telemedicine intervention–38 trials showed no statistical differences

NASADAD Survey

• In 2009, Addiction treatment providers in 16 states reported offering treatment services using telehealth (16 states out of the 37 states that responded to the survey)

• 25 states reported providing mental health treatment services using telehealth

Create addiction treatment telehealth competencies and develop policy

recommendations for national license portability to encourage the addiction treatment and recovery workforce to ADOPT the use of telehealth services

Use state-of-the-art culturally-relevant training and technical assistance activities

to help the frontier/rural addiction treatment and recovery workforce

IMPLEMENT telehealth services

White, 2011

Recovery is contagious. Get close to it.

Stay close to it. Catch it. Keep catching it. Pass it on

PREPARE pre-service addiction treatment and allied health students on using

telehealth technologies by developing and disseminating academic curricula for

infusion into existing courses

Linkages

Key Collaborators• NASADAD• SAAS-Treatment Provider Associations• HRSA Regional/National Telehealth Centers• Telehealth Experts• Regional Addiction Educators Groups• Project Echo at UNR• Telehealth Experts• NAADAC• IC&RC

Partnerships with ATTCs

Year 1 Key Events

Year 1 Key Events• Literature searches to build compendium• Graphics/Marketing Themes• Telehealth Needs Assessments• Curricula Development• Presentations at National Conferences• Presentations at Regional Summer Institutes• TOTs• State Presentations

Utilize Video

Drive target population to our website

Drive target population to our website

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It’s the Relationship with Stakeholders and Customers that is MOST Important

Groundswell: Bernoff & Li, 2009