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1509 webpages matched your search. Here are matches 1481 - 1490:

1481. Diagnostic Excellence in U.S. Rural Healthcare: A Call to Action - Resources
Date: Sep 2024

Issue brief exploring challenges to diagnostic quality in rural healthcare. Provides an overview of the topic of diagnostic errors in rural settings, and provides suggestions related to resource and workforce limitations, access to care, care coordination and other service delivery models, and social determinants of health.

...delivery · Recruitment and retention of health professionals · Service delivery models · Social determinants of health · Telehealth...

1482. Telepsychiatric Consultation as a Training and Workforce Development Strategy for Rural Primary Care - Resources
Date: Sep 2020

Study examining the impacts of telepsychiatric consultations on the capacity for clinical and non-clinical staff to recognize and treat psychiatric disorders. Draws from interviews with 17 staff members at 3 rural primary care facilities in Washington. Discusses implications of telepsychiatric consultation for primary care and behavioral health integration models.

...Care coordination · Integrated service delivery · Mental health conditions · Primary care · Statistics and data · Telehealth · Washington...

1483. Child Mental Health: Rural Policy Brief - Resources
Reviewed: May 2025

Policy brief discussing options for improving access to mental health services for rural children, including telemedicine, integration of behavioral health and primary care, and school-based care. Features 3 brief case studies.

...Access · Children and youth · Federally Qualified Health Centers · Integrated service delivery · Mental health · Schools · Telehealth...

1484. Critical Access Hospitals: Views on How Medicare Payment and Other Factors Affect Behavioral Health Services - Resources
Date: Jun 2023

Provides an overview of Medicare payment policies for care provided by Critical Access Hospitals (CAHs). Explores how CAHs provide behavioral health services in their communities. Summarizes findings from interviews with officials from 10 CAHs, stakeholder organizations, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS), and the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) regarding how Medicare payment policies and other factors affect CAHs' ability to provide behavioral health services.

...Access Hospitals · Legislation and regulations · Medicare · Policy · Reimbursement and payment models · Rural Health Clinics · Telehealth...

1485. Health Information Technology: HHS is Taking Steps to Develop a National Strategy - Resources
Date: May 2005

Overview of U.S. Department of Health and Human Services efforts to develop a national health information technology (IT) strategy. Includes some information on rural health IT activities.

...health IT activities. Date 05/2005 Organization Government Accountability Office Tagged as Health information technology · Policy · Telehealth...

1486. Maternal Health: Availability of Hospital-Based Obstetric Care in Rural Areas - Resources
Date: Oct 2022

Explores the availability of hospital-based obstetric services in rural areas. Summarizes stakeholder perspectives on the factors affecting the availability of these services and on the efforts federal agencies, states, and others could take to increase the access to obstetric care. Highlights six programs identified by researchers and provider associations as effective at increasing obstetric care in rural areas.

...retention of health professionals · Reimbursement and payment models · Service delivery models · Statistics and data · Telehealth · Women...

1487. Indian Health Service: Relief Funding and Agency Response to COVID-19 Pandemic - Resources
Date: Mar 2022

Describes the COVID-19 relief funding for Indian Health Service (IHS), tribal, and urban Indian organization health facilities and how the funds were used to meet immediate and longstanding system needs. Discusses the initial IHS response to the pandemic and steps IHS took to address challenges that its hospitals faced responding to the pandemic.

...preparedness and response · Funding · Hospitals · Infectious diseases · Technology for health and human services · Telehealth · Tribal communities...

1488. Telecommunications: FCC's Performance Management Weaknesses Could Jeopardize Proposed Reforms of the Rural Health Care Program - Resources
Date: Nov 2010

Evaluates the Federal Communications Commission's (FCC) management of the Rural Health Care Program. Focuses on how well the program is addressing the needs of rural healthcare providers, the impact of the FCC's pilot program design and implementation, and the FCC's performance goals and measures.

...goals and measures. Date 11/2010 Organization Government Accountability Office Tagged as Broadband · Funding · Policy · Telehealth...

1489. Defense Health Care: Plans Needed to Ensure Implementation of Required Elements for TRICARE's Managed Care Support Contracts - Resources
Date: Feb 2020

Report highlights the Government Accountability Office recommendations for the implementation of changes to the Department of Defense's TRICARE managed support contracts that were required by Congress. Evaluates the specific improvements relating to healthcare delivery and touches on their importance in rural areas.

...02/2020 Organization Government Accountability Office Tagged as Access · Healthcare networks · Healthcare quality · Policy · Telehealth · Veterans...

1490. Mental Health Care: Access Challenges for Covered Consumers and Relevant Federal Efforts - Resources
Date: Mar 2022

Explores the experiences of consumers with health insurance coverage in accessing timely and appropriate mental healthcare. Describes challenges accessing mental health services, including workforce shortages and broadband availability in rural areas. Identifies ongoing and planned federal efforts to address these challenges.

...Access · Behavioral health workforce · Health workforce supply and demand · Healthcare facilities · Mental health · Policy · Telehealth...