Christopher Budig was the Telehealth Program Manager for operations and technical services at Tower Health System and is now an Independent Consultant.
Christopher Budig has been in the field of telehealth since 1994. He was the telemedicine coordinator at the University of Kansas (KU) during the inception of its program. He helped develop, test and implement the technology utilized at KU and worked with medical staff to evaluate the efficacy of telehealth equipment. In 1998, he became the Director of Mountaineer Doctor Television (MDTV) at West Virginia University. For eleven years he worked with rural communities to provide via telemedicine specialty care clinics to areas of the state that had not had access to such service without the need of long travel. Prior to his present position at Tower Health, Christopher served as the Executive Director of the West Virginia Telehealth Alliance (WVTA). His experience with the original Universal Services program via the FCC helped immensely with a Rural Healthcare Pilot Project (RHCPP) grant awarded to the WVTA to expand broadband in West Virginia. That program helped develop the now popular Health Care Connect Fund.
