Telehealth
UC Davis uses telehealth and telemedicine to provide direct clinical care to patients at a distance, giving clinics and hospitals throughout the state access to more than 40 medical specialties not readily available in most smaller communities. Since it was established in 1996, UC Davis’ telemedicine program has conducted more than 20,000 telehealth consultations.
UC Davis Health System also helps manage the Federal Communications Commission-funded California Telehealth Network, which provides broadband connections linking hundreds of primary-care sites, tribal clinics, rural hospitals and teaching hospitals.
On Christmas morning 2008, a UC Davis specialist helped save the life of a boy in a Colusa hospital using telemedicine technology from his own living room, 75 miles (121 km) away.
The health system is building a 52,000-square-foot (4,800 m2) California Telehealth Resource Center to act as a hub for education, training, and clinical care through technology-enabled consultation rooms. The center is being financed through Proposition 1D funding, which California voters approved in 2006.
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