Funding Resources

• U.S. National Library of Medicine
  Office of High Performance Computing and Communications (OHPCC)
  Lister Hill National Center for Biomedical Communications (LHNCBC)
  Bethesda, MD 20894, Telephone 301-402-4100.
  
  • NLM Contracts and Purchasing

• U.S. National Library of Medicine
  Contracts and Purchasing
  Bethesda, MD 20894
  • NLM Contracts and Purchasing

• U.S. National Library of Medicine
  Division of Extramural Programs
  Bethesda, MD 20894
  • Grants and Other Assistance Mechanisms

• U.S. National Network of Libraries of Medicine (NN/LM)
  
  • http://www.nnlm.nlm.nih.gov

• U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS)
  
  • Many DHHS Agencies list funding opportunities on their web sites.
  • Office for the Advancement of Telehealth (OAT).
  • GrantsNet is a tool for locating information about DHHS grant programs.
  • The NIH Office of Extramural Research maintains the CRISP system, a major biomedical database containing information on research projects and programs supported by DHHS.

• U.S. Department of Commerce (DOC)
  
  • National Institute of Standards & Technology Advanced Technology Program. http://www.atp.nist.gov/
  • National Telecommunications & Information Administration. http://www.ntia.doc.gov/
    • Technology Opportunities Program (TOP). http://www.ntia.doc.gov/otiahome/top/
    • Public Telecommunications Facilities Program (PTFP). http://www.ntia.doc.gov/ptfp

• U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA)
  
  • USDA Rural Utilities Service. http://www.usda.gov/rus/
    • Distance Learning and Telemedicine. http://www.usda.gov/rus/telecom/dlt/dlt/htm

• Universal Service Order providing eligible rural health careproviders with financial support for telecommunications services.
  • Universal Service Administrative Company (USAC).
    Rural Health Care Program. http://www.universalservice.org/rhc/

• Locating Other Funding Resources
  • GPO (U.S. Government Printing Office) ACCESS. http://www.gpoaccess.gov
  • Telemedicine Information Exchange. http://tie.telemed.org/default.asp
  • RICHS: Rural Information Center Health Service. http://ric.nal.usda.gov/
  • Telemedicine Advanced Technology Research Command. http://www.tatrc.org

Last reviewed: 22 October 2009
Last updated: 22 October 2009
First published: 03 May 2001
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