Earlier today, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services announced a new Rural Telehealth Initiativeâs Telehealth Broadband Pilot Program with the Texas Tech Health Sciences Center serving as the lead organization in Texas for the program, according to a news release made by the Tech HSC.
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services has invested $8 million to launch the program, according to the release.
The pilot program is part of the Rural Action Plan that the U.S. Department of Health and Human Sciences that launched this past year, according to the release. The Rural Action Plan provides a path to coordinate agency efforts to transform and improve rural health care.