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Massachusetts FQHC Telehealth Consortium Announces Launch of Phase II of Telemedicine Campaign with More Than $4.7M in Grants
April 22, 2021 GMT
BOSTON (BUSINESS WIRE) Apr 21, 2021
The FQHC (Federally Qualified Health Center) Telehealth Consortium today announces the launch of Phase II of its campaign to greatly increase telemedicine capacity in Massachusetts’s community health centers. The Consortium, a partnership of Community Care Cooperative (C3), the Accountable Care Organization (ACO) that advances community-based care for MassHealth members, and the Massachusetts League of Community Health Centers, the State’s Primary Care Association, announces financial support for the Phase II launch totaling more than $4.7 million. The funds will be used to address health disparities through telemedicine, achieve sustainable telehealth capacity at FQHCs, and measure, evaluate, and dissemi
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The Massachusetts FQHC Telehealth Consortium has been awarded a grant from the Federal Communications Commission to increase telemedicine capacity in community health centers statewide. The consortium is made up of 35 federally qualified health centers.
WHY IT MATTERS
The $3.1 million grant stems from the FCC s Connect Care Pilot Program, which is designed to help eligible provider organizations defray the costs of offering virtual care and study how the FCC s Universal Service Fund can help support the trend toward connected-care services.
The consortium plans to apply its grant funding toward increasing bandwidth at member health center sites and providing mobile hotspots for use by patients. These technology enhancements should allow for the provision of mental health services and substance use disorder treatment to more than 75,000 Massachusetts health center patients through the use of remote patient monitoring, video visits and other connected services.
FCC meets with UVA Health to expand telemedicine into patientsâ homes
FCC meets with UVA Health to expand telemedicine into patientsâ homes By Rachel Hirschheimer | February 3, 2021 at 2:34 PM EST - Updated February 4 at 8:10 AM
CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. (WVIR) - The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has been helping to expand telehealth services at the University of Virginia as the need for virtual visits increase.
Acting FCC Chairwoman Jessica Rosenworcel and FCC Commissioner Geoffrey Starks met virtually with the UVA Karen S. Rheuban Center for Telehealth Tuesday, February 2, to discuss the telemedicine work that is being done at UVA and how itâs expanding virtual services for patients.
On January 15, 2021, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) announced the initial pilot projects selected for the Connected Care Pilot Program (“Pilot Program”) for telehealth.