Biz Bits: Electronic Caregiver partners with New Mexico State on telehealth course

Electronic Caregiver partners with New Mexico State on telehealth course

Electronic Caregiver, the Las Cruces-based tech startup, has partnered with New Mexico State University to offer an online microlearning course that readies students for careers in telehealth.

The course, called TeleHealth Care Coach Certification, launches Sept. 5.

“With over a decade of research and a track record of proven results, we are excited to share our expertise with you,” TCCC course co-creator and course instructor Jamie Jaramillo said in a statement. “So, whether you’re a seasoned health care professional or just getting your career started, the rapidly growing field of telehealth is waiting for you.”

According to the news release, students who enroll in the eight-week course will get an introduction to health and telehealth coaching. They’ll also learn medical terminology, plans of care, patient engagement, critical values and symptoms.

“Additionally, students learn the latest care services, technologies, and methods used for remote patient monitoring, remote chronic disease management, and enrollment in remote services,” the release said.

Jaramillo is the client care training and compliance supervisor at Electronic Caregiver, according to the release, and she is a registered nurse who holds a bachelor’s of science in nursing.

This is the second year NMSU has partnered with Electronic Caregiver for the course offering. Those interested in enrolling in the course can do so at ecg.nmsuondemand.nmsu.edu.

Survey: Labs better than film industry

The Garrity Group, the New Mexico-based marketing firm, says Los Alamos National Laboratory and Sandia National Laboratories have greater favorability with New Mexicans over the film industry, according to the firm’s 2023 Garrity Perception Survey.

According to the results, which surveyed 408 New Mexicans, the national laboratories outpaced the local film industry 65% to 63%, respectively. Garrity Group says the survey has a 95% confidence level.

“As the motion picture Oppenheimer entertains audiences around the world, we were curious to see which of the industries were in the driver’s seat of perception; both are ‘favored’ but the National Labs a little more so,” Tom Garrity, president and CEO of the Garrity Group, said in a statement. “Favorability of the film industry appears to have been impacted by the Rust movie-set shooting; it is really the only thing that captured the headlines in regards to the industry locally and would help to explain the 15-point drop from the last survey in 2020.”

Garrity Group says the numbers shifted “tremendously” post-COVID for the film industry. The national laboratories also dropped post-COVID but only slightly at two points since the 2020 survey.

According to the most recent survey, residents who are more likely to have a favorable impression of the national laboratories include those with four-year college degrees or higher and those in northwest New Mexico and the Albuquerque metro area.

“Interestingly residents living in the North Central part of the state, where Los Alamos is located, favor the film industry (74%) over the national labs (69%). In addition to North Central New Mexico, residents more likely to have a favorable opinion of the film industry includes registered Democrats and those who identify as (independent voters),” the news release added.

Housing vouchers distributed to 338

The New Mexico Mortgage Finance Authority in July distributed 338 housing vouchers for the Linkages program, a state-funded permanent supportive housing program that offers long-term rental subsidies and support services to vulnerable populations such as the homeless.

The Linkages program utilizes a “housing first” model that focuses on permanent housing for individuals experiencing homelessness.

According to the news release, the state’s Behavioral Health Services Division “provides oversight for the two key components of the program: supportive services through case managers, and rental subsidies through housing administrators.”