The idea behind telemedicine has well-publicized benefits to improving healthcare delivery, but part of the reason behind its slow adoption has been that the...
Author - Dale Alverson
Dr. Alverson is Professor Emeritus on faculty at the University of New Mexico, School of Medicine. Since 1995, he has been the Medical Director of the Center for Telehealth and Cybermedicine Research at UNM. In that role, he has been involved in the planning, implementation, research and evaluation of Telemedicine systems for New Mexico. The Center was given the American Telemedicine Association (ATA) President’s Institutional Award for its efforts in advancing telehealth locally, nationally, and internationally. He is also Chief Medical Informatics Officer of LCF Research assisting in their efforts to address the development and meaningful use of health information exchange, adoption of electronic health records, and integration with telemedicine. He is Chairman of the Board of the New Mexico Telehealth Alliance broadly representative of stakeholders and advocates for telehealth in New Mexico. He is Past President of ATA and has been on the National Boards of the Center for Telehealth and e-Health Law, and Advanced Initiatives in Medical Simulation. He has been involved in several international collaborative telehealth initiatives, including Latin America, India, Nepal, Korea, Ukraine, and other countries.
