Program-Specific Updates
Be on the lookout for the quarterly newsletter - The Telehealth Quarterly Digest - on December 1. It is brought to you by your Telehealth Network Technical Assistance Team, and includes grantee spotlights, program specific updates, articles, resources, and upcoming events.  
 
A friendly reminder about our webinar on Thursday, December 2 for both Telehealth Network Grant Program (TNGP) and Evidence-Based Telehealth Network Program (EB TNP) grantees. If you have not registered yet, you can register using the link below: 
 
Webinar: “Telehealth Network Programs: Connecting to Resources and Supports to Advance Telehealth Initiatives: 
Join us on Thursday, December 2, 2021, from 3:00 - 4:00 p.m. ET. Please register by clicking on this link. 
Resources, News, and Other Updates
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services is making it easier for healthcare providers to use telehealth to deliver mental health and substance abuse care to patients in their homes. The move highlights the increase in mental health and substance abuse issues as a result of the pandemic and allows providers more opportunity to deliver care through telehealth and to be reimbursed by Medicare and Medicaid for those services. Click here to read the article. 

This presentation from the National Consortium of Telehealth Resource Centers focuses on how telehealth can be a means to address COVID-19 through expanded access to patient monitoring and treatment and by limiting exposure to infection for both vulnerable populations and health care workers. This webinar explores further uses and benefits of telehealth during the COVID-19 pandemic. Click here to access the presentation. 

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention funded projects that address health equity issues related to the COVID-19 pandemic in rural settings. Achieving health equity by ensuring everyone has a fair and just opportunity to attain their highest level of health is paramount. Click here to read project showcases. 
Upcoming Events
December 5-8, 2021 
Please join the Institute for Healthcare Improvement Forum for this year’s fully virtual conference featuring 125 real-world, practical sessions with speakers from a range of organizations, including Surgeon General Dr. Vivek Murthy. Attendees will have access to nine forum topic tracks including equity; addressing value, cost, and quality; building improvement capacity; improvement science; population health; and more.
December 6-8, 2021, Watergate Hotel in Washington, DC 
Please join the ATA EDGE Policy Conference, “Telehealth at a Policy Tipping Point: Maintaining Public Policy Momentum,” in Washington, DC, December 6-8, 2021. This year’s conference is focused on finding solutions and creating a path forward as uncertainty remains in telehealth access, availability, and reimbursement in the year ahead.
This digest is brought to you by the Office for the Advancement of Telehealth (OAT) 
and the Telehealth Network Programs Technical Assistance Team.