Project TOUCH
Telehealth Outreach for Unified Community Health
Project Goals
The goal of project TOUCH is to improve the quality of health care service and education in remote,
multicultural areas in Hawaii and New Mexico through modern Telehealth technologies.
TOUCH seeks to evaluate the effectiveness of advanced information systems and high performance
computing in the enhancement of education, training, patient care management, and problem solving.
- Improve learning and understanding of basic principles and concepts relevant to the educational
and training objectives.
- Increase retention of knowledge, which can be applied in real world situations while decreasing
the time required to achieve adequate understanding.
- Expand student, tutor, and preceptor participation in a "hands-on" experiential learning environment,
particularly when real life experiences are limited or not possible.
- Enhance ability to evaluate student performance and levels of understanding of specific concepts.
- Provide for appropriate continued exposure to the basic concepts until each learner has achieved the
learning objectives.
- Provide a system that offers refresher and sustainment training.
- Assess user skills as well as aptitude and allow for credentialing.
- Utilize a communication network capable of allowing virtual team participation and interaction
over distance and provide a mechanism for "just-in-time" training.
Project TOUCH :: The project described was funded by grant 2 D1B TM 00003-03 from the
Office for the Advancement of Telehealth, Health Resources and Services Administration,
Department of Health and Human Services. Its contents are solely the responsibility
of the authors and do not necessarily represent the official views of the Health Resources
and Services Administration.
