The University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences Institute for Digital Health & Innovation has received a two-year grant of nearly $1 million from the U.S. Department of Agriculture.
The money will go to digital health training for health care professionals, students, business and community leaders, consumers and patients in the Arkansas Delta.
The grant will fund a mix of hands-on and virtual education training at Telehealth Training Centers in the region. These centers will be at the Arkansas Rural Health Partnership offices in Lake Village, UAMS East Regional Campus at Helena-West Helena and Jefferson Regional Medical Center School of Nursing at Pine Bluff.
The ARHP and Jefferson Regional are working with UAMS in the training effort called the Arkansas Technology Training and Rural Assistance Center for Telehealth (ATTRACT). More than 400 people in the Delta will receive training through the effort.
Hari Eswaran, Ph.D., is the principal investigator and the institute’s director of research.
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