Healthcare/Telemedicine SIG

TeleHealth Special Interest Group

TxDLA TeleHealth Group

STATEMENT ADOPTED 11/21/96

Vision

We envision a Texas where all medical and health care professionals, across the broad range of services they render and the expansive geographic regions in which they live and work, have access to the teaching and learning resources necessary to provide the highest quality health care for Texas citizens.

Mission

Members of the TxDLA TeleHealth Special Interest Group (TH Group) welcome the challenge in the medical and health care arena that is placed before us by TxDLA's mission: To be the premiere statewide organization in Texas for promoting the sensible application of telehealth technologies and distance learning strategies; maximizing access, equity, and quality medical and health care educational resources for teachers and learners of all ages.

Philosophy

In reaching toward that vision, we are dedicated to and reliant upon these essential TxDLA philosophies:

We will facilitate the advancement of TeleHealth applications and solutions, striving to provide statewide and national leadership in the field of TeleHealth.
We will embrace the full range of constituents, institutions, organizations, technologies, and applications which abound in the TeleHealth field.
We will be pro-active, participative TH Group members dedicated to tangible, outcomes-oriented objectives. We will be fully involved in the efforts of our peers to receive benefits from and contribute to our mutual success.
We will utilize a full range of resources to provide statewide sources of valuable, timely, and accessible information to TH Group and TxDLA members and their constituents through open sharing of research, expertise, technical data, and available services.
We will work to bridge traditional boundaries between institutions, organizations, constituent groups and the public and private sectors.
We will promote and support diverse partnerships by leveraging common resources and technologies, cross-pollinating expertise, and developing non-proprietary solutions while integrating applications, building open architectures, and utilizing accepted standards of interoperability.

The TH Strategic Planning Work Group developed this statement of the TH Group's vision, mission, and philosophy. The Planning Work Group also developed a 1996-97 Work Plan that sets current goals for the TH Group and outlines strategies to help us meet those goals. This plan was approved during the TH Group's regularly scheduled meeting on November 21, 1996. Also during this meeting, the following 1996-97 Work Focus Leaders were nominated and assigned:

Work Focus 1: Membership - Dennis Rose
Work Focus 2: Partnership - Deborah Seale
Work Focus 3: Technology - Kevin Roper
Work Focus 4: Policy - Lon Berquist & Jed Kenna
Work Focus 5: TxDLA Parent Relations - Mary E. Lee

Members are encouraged to participate in Work Focus activities by contacting the the Leader(s) for the Work Focus(es) in which they have an interest.

NEWS

TH Group Responds to the First Public Draft of the TIF Master Plan

The TH Group submitted, on November 22, 1996, a collaborative set of Comments on the First Public Draft of the TIF Master Plan.

TeleHealth Group Meetings

The TH Group holds regular audiobridge meetings on the third Thursday of every month at 3:30 pm.

To join the meetings, dial 512-471-5013 and ask to join the TH Group. Members, block-off this time on your calendar for coming months so you can actively participate in meetings!

Agendas and minutes:

SUBSCRIBE to the TH Group AUTOMATIC E-MAIL LIST

We strongly suggest that all those interested in the TH Group, who have not already done so, subscribe to the TH Group listserv by sending a message to: listproc@mcfeeley.cc.utexas.edu
No subject in the subject line; in the first line of the body of the message, type: SUBSCRIBE TXDLA-Health FirstName LastName
This will ensure that you automatically receive via e-mail all future announcements concerning the TH Group.

TeleHealth Directory

In January, 1996, the Texas Distance Learning Association (TxDLA) TeleHealth Special Interest Group (TH Group) formed a TeleHealth Information Task Force to investigate options for producing a guidemap to Texas' telehealth locations, connections, and programmatic resources. In keeping with TxDLA's overall goal of providing information clearinghouse services to its members and their constituencies, our objective is to make available easy-access, easy use information resources for Texas' telehealth community.

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