Connecting Oregon to Improved Care

OUR VISION
All Oregonians have access to the best possible healthcare regardless of location.

OUR MISSION
To ensure the highest quality of care for all Oregonians through an enhanced telehealth network, education, technological innovation and state-wide collaboration.

Within that mission, we have two primary objectives:

  • Build (connect) and support a scalable, cost-effective, high quality broadband infrastructure needed to ensure that all Oregonians have equal access to the best possible health care regardless of their location.
  • And upon full realization, interconnect all Oregon hospitals, clinics, public health offices, physicians, mental health, dental and optical clinics, and health education institutions with a level of interactive service delivery and access to resources only imagined in our rural and underserved communities.

OUR PHASED APPROACH
OHN's most immediate goal is to bring low-cost, high-speed broadband to all primary healthcare stakeholders in Oregon. From that critical foundation, our State's  telehealth and education programs can be built or thrive.

As a new organization that was launched in large part due to the FCC’s five-year Rural Health Care Pilot Program (RHCPP), OHN has clarified a five-year phased growth strategy to not only meet the requirements of the FCC, but to ensure the continued growth and viability of the OHN and its participants at the conclusion of the RHCPP come May 2014.

1 YEARS 1-3: Fully leverage FCC subsidy by securing core middle-mile anchor tenant model communities state-wide
  a Design, build and launch the OHN Network Operations Center (NOC) which tracks and manages the quality/connection of the network and helps to trouble shoot quality of service issues with vendors on behalf of OHN participants. (complete)
  b Effectively leverage the $20.2m FCC RHCPP subsidy by bringing on 200 (estimated) qualified RHCPP sites on the OHN by the FCC RHCPP approved vendor contract deadline of June, 30, 2010. (actively in progress)
  c Build the organizational infrastructure of OHN. (complete; in progress)
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  a Begin to identify, prioritize and test the applications, equipment and services that need to run on the OHN (strategic planning underway)
  b Identify and build a strategic partnership network to support OHN participants in the design, deployment and support of their telehealth programs. Strategic partners will come from within the healthcare industry (in progress)
  c Identify strategies to bring on participants we are not eligible for FCC RHCPP funding. (in progress)
3 YEAR 5
 

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Transition OHN RHCPP participants that are eligible for the standard FCC Rural Health Care program, back over to the standard program to continue to benefit from FCC funding for recurring internet service costs.

The Internet Revealed: A Film About IXP's

A simple, easy to understand YouTube video produced by Euro-IX that explains the open internet, and how it works as a network-of-network's model - and consequently, explains the value of the OHN network model. Click here to view  

Progress at the OHN Network Ops Center

EasyStreet technicians

The first three leaf nodes were shipped to Wallowa Memorial Hospital in Enterprise, Blue Mountain Community College in Baker City, and Oregon Coast Community College in Newport. Leaf nodes are Cisco 1700 series routers.

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