Center for Telehealth and Cybermedicine Research (CfTH)
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Supporting UNM and Community Health Partnerships
The Center for Telehealth (CfTH) is the coordinator and facilitator for the integration of Telehealth programs at the University of New Mexico (UNM) Health SciencesCenter (HSC) and other state partners. CfTH is available to help programs interested in integrating Telehealth into their initiatives.
Providing technical, network, business, and operational planning and design.
Connecting providers, patients, administrators, across the state,
across the nation and across the world. There are 100 sites in NM
connected involving several health care provider organizations.
Health Care Provision, Consultation - Healthier Patients, Healthier Communities
Telehealth provides assets and conserves resources for providers, patients and communities.
- Increasing access to specialty care
- Reducing travel costs/time for patients and providers
- Minimizing family separations
- Retaining health care providers in remote locations
- Providing continuity of care
- Enhancing opportunities for interdisciplinary practice
- Reducing the delivery of unnecessary health services
- Increase patients ability to stay in their communities
- Reduce carbon emissions
- Decrease potential for road and air accidents