New Mexico
Northern New Mexico Rural Telemedicine Project
Type of Grant: TOP
Grant Date: October 1996-December 1999
Grant Amount: $500,000
Non-Federal Support: $511,870
Project Partners: Los Alamos National Laboratory, Northern New Mexico Community College
Contact Name: Dr. Jose Griego
Phone: (505) 747-2210
The Northern New Mexico Rural Telemedicine Project, established with a TOP grant in 1996, is designed to enable health care workers at rural sites to transfer medical records, including x-rays, to larger medical centers for analysis. The Telemedicine Project currently connects 13 rural clinics to urban medical centers via TeleMed software, which was developed specifically for the program by scientists at Los Alamos National Laboratory, a founding partner of the project.
Cuba, New Mexico is 3 hours from an urban health center. Prior to the establishment of the Telemedicine project, residents of the Dulce Apache Reservation had to travel to a health center in Colorado for advanced treatment, a trip that isn't even possible in the winter. The TeleMed software enables these isolated populations to receive advanced health services in their rural health centers.
The health centers also serve as community centers, and function as an organizing point for the populations they serve. These centers are often the first places in the community with Internet connections. Minority entrepreneurs have expressed interest in marketing the TeleMed software to other isolated communities, making this program scalable throughout the United States and the world.
New Mexico
NO Walls Community Technology Center
Type of Grant: CTC
Amount of Grant: $329,000
Non-Federal Support: $209,582
Date of Grant: 2000-2003
Project Partners: University of New Mexico Health Sciences
Contact: Judith Liddell
Phone: (505) 272-2763
Email: jliddell@unm.edu
With a CTC grant, NO Walls is focusing on making technology accessible to people with disabilities. The program offers computer classes for people with disabilities as well as those that work with them. The classes are often the first opportunity for people with severe physical disabilities, such as head injuries or cognitive disabilities, to participate in a community computer class.
One woman who has a head injury has taken three classes and has found them to be exceptional. She has received enough information to practice on her own and she is finding practical applications for the information she has learned.
In additional to training persons with or at risk for having a disability, their families, service providers, caregivers, teachers and advocates on how to access information using technology, NO Walls also plans to use the center to educate the broader Albuquerque community in how to find information about disabilities using computer technology.
