Program promotes high-tech house calls

Tom Brown, Asante’s director of home health and hospice, said the hospital will apply for another grant that will allow the system to be expanded to serve patients in Northern California and the Oregon Coast. Brown said the service has been used mostly with Medicare patients. Private insurers still don’t generally pay for it.

HRSA Grant Awards by Major Program or State

In Fiscal Year 2008, the most recent year for which complete data are available, HRSA awarded 6040 grants totalling $5.88 billion dollars.

Congressionally Mandated Telehealth Grantees

Information by state on Congressionally-Mandated Health Information Technology Grants for 2008.