STAR courses are offered FREE to the first 250 registrants working or living in Virginia – a $225 value.

VTN is proud to introduce STAR Telehealth Training

Southside Telehealth Training Academy and Resource Center (STAR) in Martinsville, VA, offers statewide training for health care providers to become certified as telehealth presenters or coordinators.

STAR training provides an overview of the videoconferencing technology and medical peripherals used in the clinical setting, remote patient monitoring equipment in the home setting, and the responsibilities of telehealth staff.

Graduates of the clinical track will acquire the skills to correctly present patients during virtual encounters with physicians and other specialists. Telehealth coordination track graduates will be able to operate telehealth equipment and manage components of a telehealth program.

Students in health care programs are eligible to register for STAR. Education is delivered through convenient, self-paced on-line training modules, combined with hands-on experience using telemedicine and remote patient monitoring technologies.

STAR's goal is to reinforce best practices in telehealth to achieve improvements in healthcare delivery and outcomes for rural communities and medically underserved populations.

STAR courses are offered FREE to the first 250 registrants working or living in Virginia – a $225 value.

Hands-on laboratories are scheduled for February 22nd in Martinsville, and on April 1st and 2nd in Fredericksburg (after MATRC Summit). On-site labs for groups of 25 may be arranged by contacting the STAR Program Coordinator.

Visit www.startelehealth.org to learn more now. Feel free to forward this to a friend or colleague.

The Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander Health Disparity & Health Equity Conference

Register now: The Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander Health Disparity & Health Equity Conference

From September 25 - 26, Los Angeles will host this year's Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander Health Disparity & Health Equity Conference, an opportunity for community leaders, health care professionals, researchers, educators, advocates and policymakers to come together to focus on innovative concepts, methods and research findings on health disparities that impact the Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander community. Attendees will have the chance to discuss the significance and impact of robust health and health care data for evaluating the status of understudied and underserved populations. A summary of key findings from the Pacific Islander Health Study, a representative survey on the health and health care utilization of Pacific Islander adults and adolescents, will also be available.

Key speakers will include Dr. Howard K. Koh, Assistant Secretary for Health for the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Dr. J. Nadine Gracia, Deputy Assistant Secretary for Minority Health (Acting), and Dr. David R. Williams, the Florence Sprague Norman & Laura Smart Norman Professor of Public Health and Professor of African and African American Studies of Sociology at Harvard University.

Registration is available online . Book by Friday, August 31 to receive the discounted rate at the conference hotel . Deadline to submit poster abstracts is August 20.