Rural Health
Resources by Topic: Technology for health and human services
The Economic Impact of Rural Broadband
Provides an estimate of the direct and indirect economic activities of the rural broadband industry on the Gross Domestic Product (GDP), and their effect on other rural industries, including healthcare.
Date: 04/2016
Type: Document
Sponsoring organization: Hudson Institute
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Provides an estimate of the direct and indirect economic activities of the rural broadband industry on the Gross Domestic Product (GDP), and their effect on other rural industries, including healthcare.
Date: 04/2016
Type: Document
Sponsoring organization: Hudson Institute
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Tribal Internet Access: Increased Federal Coordination and Performance Measurement Needed
Interviews officials from 21 tribal entities and 6 service providers to understand perspectives on high-speed internet access and barriers within remote tribal communities. Highlights the importance of high-speed internet for rural health care facilities to support telemedicine.
Additional links: Full Report
Date: 04/2016
Type: Document
Sponsoring organization: Government Accountability Office
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Interviews officials from 21 tribal entities and 6 service providers to understand perspectives on high-speed internet access and barriers within remote tribal communities. Highlights the importance of high-speed internet for rural health care facilities to support telemedicine.
Additional links: Full Report
Date: 04/2016
Type: Document
Sponsoring organization: Government Accountability Office
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Evaluation of the Regional Extension Center Program: Final Report
Overview of methods and findings about the Regional Extension Center (REC) program implementation and impact on adoption and meaningful use of electronic health record systems. Includes discussion of ways in which RECs operating in rural areas structured their programs, given limited infrastructure.
Author(s): Brandy Farrar, Grace Wang, Johannes Bos, et al.
Date: 04/2016
Type: Document
Sponsoring organization: Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology
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Overview of methods and findings about the Regional Extension Center (REC) program implementation and impact on adoption and meaningful use of electronic health record systems. Includes discussion of ways in which RECs operating in rural areas structured their programs, given limited infrastructure.
Author(s): Brandy Farrar, Grace Wang, Johannes Bos, et al.
Date: 04/2016
Type: Document
Sponsoring organization: Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology
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Evaluation of the Health Care Innovation Awards: Community Resource Planning, Prevention, and Monitoring: Second Annual Report
Second annual evaluations of 24 Health Care Innovation Awards Round One projects focused on enhancing care coordination and healthcare access through the use of health information technology, care coordination/patient navigation, and health promotion and prevention services. Discusses project impacts and challenges common across grantees. Includes profiles of 5 rural-focused projects, as well as projects serving rural and urban areas.
Date: 03/2016
Type: Document
Sponsoring organizations: Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, RTI International
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Second annual evaluations of 24 Health Care Innovation Awards Round One projects focused on enhancing care coordination and healthcare access through the use of health information technology, care coordination/patient navigation, and health promotion and prevention services. Discusses project impacts and challenges common across grantees. Includes profiles of 5 rural-focused projects, as well as projects serving rural and urban areas.
Date: 03/2016
Type: Document
Sponsoring organizations: Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, RTI International
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Independence, Technology, and Connection in Older Age
Explores a wide range of technologies that promote continued independence and productivity for older Americans, including telehealth services for people in rural and underserved areas. Addresses lack of access to broadband or Internet connection in many rural areas.
Date: 03/2016
Type: Document
Sponsoring organization: President's Council of Advisors on Science and Technology
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Explores a wide range of technologies that promote continued independence and productivity for older Americans, including telehealth services for people in rural and underserved areas. Addresses lack of access to broadband or Internet connection in many rural areas.
Date: 03/2016
Type: Document
Sponsoring organization: President's Council of Advisors on Science and Technology
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The Feasibility of Using Electronic Health Records to Describe Demographic and Clinical Indicators of Migrant and Seasonal Farmworkers
Using 2012 data derived from a Colorado Migrant Health Center electronic health record (EHR) database, this study describes the demographics, social history, medical indicators, and diagnoses of patients who are migrant and seasonal farmworkers (MSFW) with the purpose of developing an electronic baseline clinical database that may improve clinical care, and support illness surveillance and epidemiologic studies of MSFW populations.
Author(s): Christina Socias, Yuanyuan Liang, George Delclos, et al.
Citation: Journal of Agromedicine, 21(1), 71-81
Date: 02/2016
Type: Document
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Using 2012 data derived from a Colorado Migrant Health Center electronic health record (EHR) database, this study describes the demographics, social history, medical indicators, and diagnoses of patients who are migrant and seasonal farmworkers (MSFW) with the purpose of developing an electronic baseline clinical database that may improve clinical care, and support illness surveillance and epidemiologic studies of MSFW populations.
Author(s): Christina Socias, Yuanyuan Liang, George Delclos, et al.
Citation: Journal of Agromedicine, 21(1), 71-81
Date: 02/2016
Type: Document
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Disparities in Individuals' Access and Use of Health Information Technology in 2014
Reports on patients' use of different types of health information technology (HIT) as of 2014, with a comparison to 2013. See figure 5 for data specific to rural patients' use of HIT.
Author(s): Vaishali Patel, Wesley Barker, Erin Siminerio
Date: 02/2016
Type: Document
Sponsoring organization: Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology
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Reports on patients' use of different types of health information technology (HIT) as of 2014, with a comparison to 2013. See figure 5 for data specific to rural patients' use of HIT.
Author(s): Vaishali Patel, Wesley Barker, Erin Siminerio
Date: 02/2016
Type: Document
Sponsoring organization: Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology
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Using Electronic Health Records to Examine Disease Risk in Small Populations: Obesity Among American Indian Children, Wisconsin, 2007-2012
Examines use of the Public Health Information Exchange (PHINEX) to describe obesity among Wisconsin American Indian children seeking care off-reservation. Also discusses usefulness of electronic health records as an alternative to other data collection methods when studying disease risk in a small population.
Author(s): Emily J. Tomayko, Bethany A. Weinert, Liz Godfrey, Alexandra K. Adams, Lawrence P. Hanrahan
Citation: Preventing Chronic Disease, 13
Date: 02/2016
Type: Document
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Examines use of the Public Health Information Exchange (PHINEX) to describe obesity among Wisconsin American Indian children seeking care off-reservation. Also discusses usefulness of electronic health records as an alternative to other data collection methods when studying disease risk in a small population.
Author(s): Emily J. Tomayko, Bethany A. Weinert, Liz Godfrey, Alexandra K. Adams, Lawrence P. Hanrahan
Citation: Preventing Chronic Disease, 13
Date: 02/2016
Type: Document
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Rural Providers' Access to Online Resources: A Randomized Controlled Trial
Examines healthcare providers' access to and satisfaction levels with one of two online point-of-care (PoC) clinical resources in rural New Mexico. Table 1 reports the frequency of use of PoC resources and Table 2 reports the satisfaction with PoC resources.
Author(s): Jonathan D. Eldredge, Laura J. Hall, Karen R. McElfresh, et al.
Citation: Journal of the Medical Library Association, 104(1), 33-41
Date: 01/2016
Type: Document
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Examines healthcare providers' access to and satisfaction levels with one of two online point-of-care (PoC) clinical resources in rural New Mexico. Table 1 reports the frequency of use of PoC resources and Table 2 reports the satisfaction with PoC resources.
Author(s): Jonathan D. Eldredge, Laura J. Hall, Karen R. McElfresh, et al.
Citation: Journal of the Medical Library Association, 104(1), 33-41
Date: 01/2016
Type: Document
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U.S. Department of Agriculture Rural Utilities Service Broadband Initiatives Program Final Report
Summary of the 2009 American Recovery and Reinvestment Act as it pertains to broadband services in rural America. Funded projects were completed by September 2015. Includes data and statistics about miles of fiber deployed, affected locations, and active projects.
Date: 2016
Type: Document
Sponsoring organization: USDA Rural Utilities Service
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Summary of the 2009 American Recovery and Reinvestment Act as it pertains to broadband services in rural America. Funded projects were completed by September 2015. Includes data and statistics about miles of fiber deployed, affected locations, and active projects.
Date: 2016
Type: Document
Sponsoring organization: USDA Rural Utilities Service
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