Mission & Vision

Our Mission

To increase the overall health and well-being of the communities in the ten county region of northeastern Virginia.
•    The Consortium will assess the community health needs within the service region.
•    The Consortium will identify information and communication technologies to bridge gaps in medical service delivery.
•    The Consortium will investigate and advance the strategic sharing of facility resources and expenditures, electronic health records, and data gathering and dissemination of telemedicine technologies to improve health outcomes.
Outcomes:
•    Increase access to health care through an open telehealth system
•    Reduce health disparities by implementing a seamless health care delivery system.
Guiding Philosophy: The Consortium is resolved to:
1.    Provide consumer choice for telehealth services.
2.    Provide for chronic disease management services for vulnerable populations.
3.    Provide specialty and subspecialty telehealth expertise.
4.    Support local primary care physicians in adoption and use of telehealth technologies.

Our Vision

The Northern Neck Middle Peninsula Telehealth Consortium will use telehealth technologies to link healthcare providers, patients, educators, and consumers and their families to a comprehensive continuum of care, in order to reduce the isolation of providers and their patients within rural communities.

  • Provide resources through the Consortium
  • Ensure the sustainability of those resources
  • Obtain support by, local regional and national leadership
  • Provide leadership, management, administrative support, marketing, telemedicine expertise, and information technology software processes by implementing Strategic and Business Plans using a web-based telehealth information technology system.

Objectives

Telemedicine Applications:
  • Are fully reimbursable
  • Are cost effective from provider viewpoint
  • Are affordable from organizational and consumer viewpoint
  • Will help provide medical services not readily available in the community

Criteria

Telemedicine Applications:
  • Are capable of providing remote interpreter services for an array of languages.
  • Are capable of communication across large geographic distances and across the street.
  • Make it possible for consumers not to have to travel more distance miles for healthcare than is absolutely necessary (i.e. keep local healthcare dollars in community of primary care)
  • Are parts of a relatively strong primary care network.
  • Supplement existing primary care network by specialty support and do not supplant existing service delivery applications.
  • Are used to advance the portability of medical information including electronic patient records and health services quality tracking.
  • Are a primary tool to reduce the isolation of communities and subpopulations within communities.
  • Are parts of global activities and therefore should be in principal, part of a open-system, distributed network.

Strategies

Telemedicine Applications:
  • Are seen as a method to coalesce a wide geographic area with sparse population. Telemedicine applications are a major driver to aggregate the marketplace for telecommunications services and to bring down exorbitant cost barriers to entry for marketplace applications.
  • Are part of local government strategies for economic development.
  • Are part of local, state, and national health policy initiatives to increase access and reduce costs of medical care delivery.Insurance companies and third-party payers are moving towards Telemedicine applications to address rising costs of healthcare delivery.
  • Facilitate the business of the Consortium by linking with Consortium website.

Advantages

Telemedicine Applications:
  • Are a key instrument in tracking communicable disease outbreaks (i.e. tuberculosis, STDs, etc) and will be the choice of instrument to prepare for and respond to terrorist alerts.
  • Are seen as part of a larger picture in delivering healthy babies in the NN & MP.
  • Are proven to be effective as part of a total diagnosis, treatment and follow-up are continuum for cardiac, dermatology, and mental health issues.
  • Are used extensively to provide CME and CEU training to reduce trading costs and improve convenience for medical professionals.
  • Are envisioned to be a part of home health services and electronically connected to medical providers 24 X 7.
  • Are seen a primary tool for public education to prevent chronic diseases.
  • Are especially attuned to providing access to specialty and subspecialty medical services.
  • Are used to recruit and retain medical professionals and increase opportunities for collegial exchange among medical professionals and medical support professionals.