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Article: Colorado Hosts Telemedicine Experiment.(Newsline Closer Look)
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- Health Data Management
- Article date:
- October 1, 2009
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Byline: Joseph Goedert
Colorado is the testing ground for an ambitious program by insurer UnitedHealth Group to develop a national telemedicine network connecting patients in underserved communities with specialists.
Minneapolis-based UnitedHealth recently launched the program with networking vendor Cisco Systems Inc., San Jose, Calif. Cisco brings the video-conferencing technology, and the insurer brings a commitment of "tens of millions of dollars" and a national network of providers from which to recruit participants.
In Colorado, 12-hospital Centura Health is the partner as the program gets off the ground. The provider and payer had a mutual ...