RECENT TELEMEDICINE NEWS:

• Marlene Maheu, Ph.D., Executive Director for the TeleMental Health Institute, discusses legal and ethical issues of telemental health

• NARBHA's "NARBHAnet" telemedicine network is the winner of the 2010 Excellence in Health IT Award from the National Council for Community Behavioral Healthcare.
  
  
• Federal rebates for FY09/10 obtained for clinical sites.
  
  
• Carbon emissions savings: Did you know...
  • In the calendar year 2010, the NARBHA telemedicine network saved over 175,000 miles of driving and over 3,100 hours of drive time by 20 psychiatric providers.
• This saved 71 tons of CO2 from being added to earth's atmosphere.
• This doesn't include all the staff who save countless hours of drive time throughout the 62,000 square miles of Northern Arizona by using the telemedicine network for meetings.
• Free Telehealth Impact Calculator from LearnTelehealth.org (Time, Money, Environment)
  
  
• NARBHAnet Press Coverage