Rural Health
News by Topic: Technology for health and human services
Oct 28, 2025 - Highlights a telehealth summit discussing strategies for expanding access to telehealth in South Carolina. Includes discussion of the need for expanded broadband in rural communities as well as digital literacy training for patients.
Source: WCSC
Oct 24, 2025 - Highlights an app from the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs supporting home-based primary care teams in areas with low internet connectivity. The app allows for digital access to patient information in the field, reducing the need for printed documents and increasing patient privacy and healthcare quality.
Source: VA News
Oct 21, 2025 - Describes a philanthropic investment into the East Carolina University Center for Medical Education in the Brody School of Medicine. The funding will expand the facilities and bring new technologies to the school. Discusses the goals of both the school and philanthropic partner to improve rural health outcomes by increasing the rural physician workforce.
Source: ECU News Services
Oct 20, 2025 - Describes a broadband access program in a rural Georgia county. Discusses the importance of building partnerships and infrastructure as a means to obtain funding and increase sustainability after the initial funding is spent.
Source: National Association of Counties
Oct 17, 2025 - Discusses higher suicide rates for rural residents compared to urban residents and a Louisiana university's online therapy program to address those higher rates. Discusses the program's shift to focus on engaging communities, successes after year 1, and work to address broadband challenges.
Source: WAFB
Sep 29, 2025 - Highlights a newly funded stroke treatment project in Louisiana to offer pharmaceutical education and on-site training in rural emergency departments and emergency medical services. The project will develop mobile resources to offer real-time guidance and clinical pharmacy information to improve stroke outcomes for rural residents.
Source: KNOE
Sep 15, 2025 - Announces information for states to apply for funding under the Rural Health Transformation Program. Funded projects should address one or more of the stated goals related to healthcare access, rural health innovation, workforce development, and technology. The deadline to apply is November 5, 2025.
Source: Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services Newsroom
Related funding:
Rural Health Transformation Program
CMS: Medicare Program; Town Hall Meeting on the Fiscal Year 2027 Applications for New Technology Add-On Payments
Federal Register
Sep 10, 2025 - Notice from the Centers for Medicare & Medicare Services
(CMS) announcing a virtual town hall meeting to be held on
December 10-11, 2025, to discuss FY 2027 applications for
add-on payments for new medical services and technologies
under the Medicare Hospital Inpatient Prospective Payment
System (IPPS). Information on how to join the meeting will
be posted on the
New Technology website. The deadline to register to
present at the meeting is November 3, 2025. Written
comments and agenda items for discussion at the meeting are
due by November 13, 2025.
Source: Federal Register

