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Date: Apr 28, 2021
Fast, reliable broadband is essential for people to access telehealth and patient portals as well as work and study from home, but rural and tribal areas fall behind urban and suburban areas in terms of broadband deployment and speed. Organizations in Alabama, Colorado, and Kentucky share how broadband affects their work and their patients' care. - The Rural Monitor
...writing a letter. ADPH Telehealth Program's original partner, Medical Advocacy and Outreach, focuses on providing testing, PrEP, and other services to patients with, or at risk for, HIV. The University of South Alabama provides...
Date: Jun 7, 2022
The June 2022 episode of RHIhub's podcast features Karla Weng, Senior Program Manager for Stratis Health, and Pat Justis, Director of the Washington State Office of Rural Health, discussing their work on an initiative to expand access to palliative care in rural communities in Washington State, North Dakota, and Wisconsin.
...grants or sometimes ongoing consistent kind of helps offset the costs. So those are kind of two areas. Karla Weng: And then the third area that I think is growing really more rapidly even...
Date: Oct 9, 2019
Deaf, hard of hearing, and deafblind people in rural communities may struggle to access healthcare due to a lack of interpreters as well as providers' misunderstanding of their culture and communication needs. A Michigan clinic hires ASL-fluent staff and provides telemental health, a New Jersey state division provides deaf sensitivity training, and a Colorado program brings interpreters to rural communities. - The Rural Monitor
...writing something down, like saying myocardial infarction instead of heart attack , which can confuse patients. The trainings also reveal common misconceptions about DHH people. For example, Hill remembers a participant who, during a true/false quiz...
Date: Feb 2, 2022
The priority for rural population health is access, including access to health information needed to make personal health decisions. Two of the nation's health literacy experts join a federal agency official to review current rural challenges of accessing health information that is clear and usable. Along with an exploration of digital health literacy, recently expanded definitions of health literacy are discussed. - The Rural Monitor
...writing skills; possessing the ability to use a computer; and "understanding how, why, and when online health information is created, shared, and received." Experts agreed that although "digital" is having a tremendous influence on where...
Date: Jan 8, 2020
As people are living longer and trying to find solutions to delay the expense of long-term care or nursing facilities, family members, including adult children, are increasingly becoming informal, unpaid caregivers. Learn how technology may be a solution to help rural caregivers, what some of the challenges and opportunities are, and read about a current model that has the potential to change the landscape. - The Rural Monitor
...writing that they were only beginning to study this issue themselves. Mary DeVany, Associate Director of the Great Plains Telehealth Resource and Assistance Center. Mary DeVany, Associate Director of the Great Plains Telehealth Resource...
Reviewed: May 28, 2025
To help rural Texas communities prepare for emergency events, a year-long pilot project used focus groups, a survey, and exit interviews to help librarians and local stakeholders discuss a community's strengths and opportunities for resiliency planning.
...grant funding for a new library building to address emergency preparedness for the future of the town and region. The Gladewater collaboration had 7 participants who identified challenges to disaster preparedness such as lack...
Date: Mar 1, 2022
The March 2022 episode of RHIhub's podcast features Carol Wright Kenderdine discussing how to meet the transportation needs of an aging rural population.
...granted when we're younger. And so you have people who retreat further and further into isolation and that affects their mental health. It can lead to depression and depression can lead to other physical...
Date: Aug 17, 2022
A partnership between a Federally Qualified Health Center and the local ambulance district in Washington County, Missouri lets chronically ill patients access preventive care from the comfort of home. - The Rural Monitor
...writing or updating prescriptions, and facilitate telehealth visits with the health center's providers. "Now I can actually intervene and say, okay, we've got these resources to help break that perpetual cycle," Buckley said...
Date: Apr 5, 2022
The April 2022 episode of RHIhub's podcast features Alisa Druzba and Steve Workman discussing the development of the New Hampshire Mobility Management Network.
...grant opportunity. We don't often get to be really creative with the work that we do. We focus a lot of energy on health systems, which is completely appropriate, but everyone knows that social...
Added: Nov 14, 2022
Describes how the Caldwell County Office of Homeland Security and Emergency Management responded to a hot air balloon crash resulting in mass fatalities in Maxwell, Texas in July of 2016.
...write notes on them with regular pens. A white outline, suggested Ritchey, could help mitigate this issue. Caldwell County responders had exercised triage activities before. Four or five months prior to the hot air balloon...