ATTENTION: Effective January 1, 2007, the name for the Fairview-University of Minnesota Temedicine Network has changed to: The Minnesota Telehealth Network. Any questions or information regarding this network, should be directed to: Zoi Hills, phone number: 612-625-9938, e-mail: hills069@umn.edu

Visit the Minnesota Telehealth Network website.

The Minnesota Telehealth Network (MTN) is the premier provider of remotely delivered physician specialist and other medical services to communities in Minnesota. With a hub at University of Minnesota Medical Center, Fairview in Minneapolis and care delivery sites throughout the state, the network facilitates nearly 1,000 specialty physician visits annually and is developing programs in telehomecare, remote rural satellite clinic support, and nursing home triage. 

MTN has evolved out of a small telemedicine network originally started by the University of Minnesota in 1994. Today, the network consists of the University of Minnesota, which supplies the majority of specialty physicians, Fairview Health Services, parent organization of University of Minnesota Medical Center, Fairview, community hospitals in Hibbing, Wadena, Crosby, Aitkin, Cook, Bigfork, Littlefork, Onamia, Moose Lake and Red Wing, Minnesota, and the Ne-Ia-Shing clinic on Mille Lacs Reservation near Onamia, Minnesota. Available specialty services include dermatology, child and adolescent psychiatry, adult psychiatry, asthma and allergy, gastroenterology, neurology, orthopedics and wound care. Planned program expansions include diabetic endocrinology and management, cardiology, pulmonology and rheumatology.

MTN operations are funded by network members, patient fees, and a major grant from the federal Office for the Advancement of Telehealth, a division of the U.S. Public Health Service.