Telehealth/Telemedicine: Government

U.S. Federal Agencies

• Appalachian Regional Commission, http://www.arc.gov/programs/reginit/telecom.htm

The Department of Agriculture

• Rural Utilities Service, http://www.usda.gov/rus/
• Rural Information Center Health Service (RICHS), http://www.nal.usda.gov/ric/ruralres/telehealth.htm

The Department of Commerce

• National Telecommunication and Information Administration (NTIA), http://www.ntia.doc.gov
• Technology Opportunities Program (TOP), http://www.ntia.doc.gov/otiahome/top/index.html

Department of Defense

• Center for Total Access, http://www.cta.ha.osd.mil/
• Department of Defense Telemedicine Research Center, http://www.matmo.org

Department of Energy

• Los Alamos National Lab-Telemedicine, http://www.acl.lanl.gov/telemed

Department of Health and Human Services

• healthfinder®, http://www.healthfinder.gov (a consumer health and human services information link)
• Office for the Advancement of Telehealth, http://telehealth.hrsa.gov

Food and Drug Administration

• Telemedicine-related activities of the Center for Devices and Radiological Health, FDA, http://www.fda.gov/cdrh/telemed.html

Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) - Formerly the Health Care Finance Administration (HCFA)

• Medicaid and Telemedicine, http://www.hcfa.gov/medicaid/telemed.htm
• States where Medicaid reimburses for telemedicine, http://www.hcfa.gov/medicaid/telelist.htm

Office of Rural Health Policy (ORHP)

• ORHP-Sponsored Telemedicine Report in Adobe Acrobat, ftp://ftp.hrsa.gov/finalabt.pdf

National Library of Medicine

• NLM, Funding for Telemedicine Projects, http://www.nlm.nih.gov/research/funding.html

The Department of Veterans Administration

• Dept. of Veterans Affairs - Telemedicine Projects, http://www.va.gov/telemed/default.htm