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HOUSE JOINT RESOLUTION NO. 53 Offered January 17, 1996 Requesting the Council on Information Management, as part of the Information Technology Infrastructure Initiative, to evaluate roadblocks to implementation of telemedicine applications in rural Virginia and recommend legislative or regulatory action. ----------
Patrons-- Mims, Albo, Bennett, Callahan, Davies, Griffith, Hamilton, Hargrove, Keating, May, McDonnell, Ruff and Sherwood; Senators: Hanger, Waddell and Woods
---------- Referred to Committee on Rules ----------

WHEREAS, according to the American Telemedicine Association, U.S. citizens logged more than one trillion miles of travel for medical purposes in 1993; and

WHEREAS, telemedicine can improve health, especially in rural areas, by increasing access to health care providers, decreasing the geographic and professional isolation of rural physicians, and improving continuity of care through the use of computers, television, phone lines, cameras, and fax machines; and

WHEREAS, according to the 1996 report of the Joint Commission on Health Care, telemedicine applications may be used to deliver both clinical services and educational programs to distant sites; and

WHEREAS, the Joint Commission on Health Care identified several unresolved issues surrounding telemedicine related to technology and technological infrastructure; now, therefore, be it

RESOLVED, by the House of Delegates, the Senate concurring, That the Council on Information Management, as part of the Information Technology Infrastructure Initiative, is requested to evaluate roadblocks to the implementation of telemedicine in the Commonwealth and recommend such legislative or regulatory action that the council determines to be necessary to enhance telemedicine capabilities within the Commonwealth; and be it

RESOLVED FURTHER, that the Council on Information Management shall complete its work in time to submit its findings and recommendations to the Governor and the 1997 Session of the General Assembly as provided in the procedures of the Division of Legislative Automated Systems for the processing of legislative documents.