West Virginia Telehealth Alliance

The West Virginia Telehealth Alliance (WVTA) is a non-profit organization dedicated to advancing telehealth use and telemedicine capabilities throughout the Mountain State. Participants in the alliance include hospitals, rural health care centers, medical schools (WVU, Marshall, CAMC, W.Va. School of Osteopathic Medicine), doctors, mental health centers, local health departments, senior groups, consumers as well as AFL-CIO and the West Virginia Chamber of Commerce, and major telecommunications companies.

FCC Rural Health Care Pilot Program

The West Virginia Telehealth Alliance is one of 69 organizations across the U.S. that has been selected to participate in the FCC's Rural Health Care Pilot Program.  As such, the WVTA will have approximately $9.7 million in state and federal funds to improve broadband connectivity among eligible health care entities in the state.  Click here to learn more about the FCC's pilot program.

Click to see map of RHCPP elgible locations across West Virginia.

The West Virginia Telehealth Alliance (WVTA) is a non-profit organization dedicated to advancing telehealth use and telemedicine capabilities throughout the Mountain State. Participants in the alliance include hospitals, rural health care centers, medical schools (WVU, Marshall, CAMC, W.Va. School of Osteopathic Medicine), doctors, mental health centers, local health departments, senior groups, consumers as well as AFL-CIO and the West Virginia Chamber of Commerce, and major telecommunications companies.

FCC Rural Health Care Pilot Program

The West Virginia Telehealth Alliance is one of 69 organizations across the U.S. that has been selected to participate in the FCC's Rural Health Care Pilot Program.  As such, the WVTA will have approximately $9.7 million in state and federal funds to improve broadband connectivity among eligible health care entities in the state.  Click here to learn more about the FCC's pilot program.

Click to see map of RHCPP elgible locations across West Virginia.

Once constructed, this metro fiber project will provide a metropolitan fiber connection environment (1 gig) to facilitate eligible health care services at and among these institutions:
- Marshall University (for its health education programs, courses)
- Marshall University Joan C. Edwards School of Medicine
- St. Marys Medical Center
- Cabell-Huntington Hospital

Benefits:
1) Provide advanced broadband interconnection among these institutions for the exchange of health information and health education purposes
2) Allow rural health centers to access remotely (via telehealth) the physicians and specialists at these interconnected organizations 
3) Provide a fiber connection point to bring Internet2 service into the state, particularly into central and southern West Virginia.

This metro fiber project is the first step to establish a dedicated broadband health care network that can encompass about 150+ eligible institutions/centers with 300 locations across the state.

Once constructed, this metro fiber project will provide a metropolitan fiber connection environment (1 gig) to facilitate eligible health care services at and among these institutions:
- Marshall University (for its health education programs, courses)
- Marshall University Joan C. Edwards School of Medicine
- St. Marys Medical Center
- Cabell-Huntington Hospital

Benefits:
1) Provide advanced broadband interconnection among these institutions for the exchange of health information and health education purposes
2) Allow rural health centers to access remotely (via telehealth) the physicians and specialists at these interconnected organizations 
3) Provide a fiber connection point to bring Internet2 service into the state, particularly into central and southern West Virginia.

This metro fiber project is the first step to establish a dedicated broadband health care network that can encompass about 150+ eligible institutions/centers with 300 locations across the state.