Pilot Telemedicine Project Demonstrates Success

In April 2009, the Harrisonburg Community Health Center joined with the University of Virginia Maternal and Fetal Medicine Program in offering local pregnant women deemed to have a "high-risk" pregnancy the opportunity to meet with a Maternal/Fetal Medicine physician at the University of Virginia through telemedicine at the health center rather than traveling to Charlottesville. Outcomes have been very promising and the University of Virginia is now expanding the program to other localities. Watch as Dr. Christian Chisholm at UVA describes the program.