A team initiative among experienced telemedicine programs in Maine, Vermont, and Massachusetts dedicated to supporting and fostering development of effective telehealth programs in the northeast. Partner Organizations – (Maine, Mass, Vermont) MAINE: HealthWays/Regional Medical Center at Lubec—a Federally Qualified Health Center with a division, Maine Telemedicine Services (MTS), which has since 1998 helped lead the development of an open statewide telemedicine network of over 300 sites. Some telehealth applications MTS has helped providers develop and implement include mental health/psychiatry, genetic counseling, deaf interpretive services, wound care for nursing homes, primary care by telemedicine boat for offshore islands, and health services for correctional facilities. A home health division, Sunrise County Homecare Services, worked with another rural agency to pioneer interactive home telehealth services in Maine. www.rmcl.org/mts/ MASSACHUSETTS: Center for Connected Health, Partners HealthCare Systems—formerly Partners Telemedicine, CCH was established in 1995 and has substantial experience in teledermatology, home telehealth, and in applying consumer technologies and online resources in innovative ways to increase access and improve quality medical services and patient care. CCH is a founding member of Continua Health Alliance. CCH also offers expert online second opinions and facilitates enhanced medical education and training through Internet technologies and works with Harvard Medical School-affiliated teaching hospitals, including Massachusetts General and Brigham and Women's Hospitals. Website: www.connected-health.org. VERMONT: University of Vermont School of Medicine— the Fletcher Allen HealthCare Telemedicine Program (FAHC) was first developed in 1996 under the leadership of the Departments of Surgery and Emergency Medicine. Their network currently links 36 sites, including 13 hospitals, homes of ER physicians, mobile EMS staff on an experimental ambulance, and correctional sites in New York . Network providers deliver consults in trauma/emergency, surgical follow-up, mental health/psychiatry, dermatology, dialysis center support, pathology, and radiology. FAHC also partners with home health agencies in research on home telehealth monitoring. Website: www.fahc.org/Telemedicine/index.html.