1. National Frontier and Rural ATTC
ATTC Network Meeting
12.12.12

4. University of Nevada, Reno

5. Summary of
Goals

6. Serve as the national subject expert
and key resource to PROMOTE the
awareness and implementation of
telehealth technologies

7. 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’

8. Definitions
• Synchronous communications
telephone counseling
• Asynchronous Communications
email or web-based programs
• Some web-based programs include
both type of communications

9. Telehealth is not about technology itself but is a
bridge to relationship with the patient in order to
provide care. Shore, 2012

10. 1879

12. Brief Review of Research

13. 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

14. 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

16. 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

18. 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

19. White, 2011
Recovery is contagious. Get close to it.
Stay close to it. Catch it. Keep catching it. Pass it on

20. PREPARE pre-service addiction treatment
and allied health students on using
telehealth technologies by developing and
disseminating academic curricula for
infusion into existing courses

22. Linkages

23. 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

25. Partnerships with ATTCs

28. Year 1 Key Events

29. 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

31. Utilize Video

32. Drive target
population to
our website
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34. It’s the Relationship with Stakeholders
and Customers that is MOST Important
Groundswell: Bernoff & Li, 2009