Website Search Results for: telehealth
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Date: Mar 2019
Reports on the implementation of the Flex Program and the integration of the Innovative Health Care Models (Innovative Projects) program area in 7 states focused on telehealth, care coordination, and quality improvement. Highlights lessons learned, program discussion, and the evaluation methods for each of the projects. Builds on a 2018 briefing paper, An Interim Evaluation Report of the Innovative Projects Portfolio of the Medicare Flex Grant Program.
...telehealth, care coordination, and quality improvement. Highlights lessons learned, program discussion, and the evaluation methods...
Date: Apr 2023
Policy brief exploring how lack of broadband infrastructure and adaptation in rural areas limits access to healthcare. Includes recommendations for policies and actions to improve the rural broadband infrastructure and promote telehealth.
...telehealth. --- Health Care's Role in Rural Economic Development: How Broadband Can Improve Health Outcomes...
Date: Nov 2021
Summarizes the Medicaid and CHIP Payment and Access Commission's (MACPAC) ongoing analysis of behavioral health in Medicaid and CHIP and offers policy recommendations. Discusses the behavioral health workforce; behavioral healthcare service delivery and access; mental health parity; telehealth; and improving access for children and youth. Includes rural references and considerations throughout.
...telehealth; and improving access for children and youth. Includes rural references and considerations throughout. --- MACPAC...
Date: Jun 2020
Discusses the geographic barriers rural patients may face when seeking cancer treatment. Provides an overview of policy solutions to date. Identifies federal and state policy options that could extend cancer care to rural areas through telehealth services.
...telehealth services. --- Expanding the Capacity of Rural Cancer Care With Teleoncology Discusses the geographic barriers...
Date: Jul 2024
Evaluates the effectiveness of a community paramedicine service delivery model for improving stroke outcomes for high risk residents of 2 rural Georgia counties. Assesses hospital readmissions and mortality for 22 study participants compared to 621 nonparticipants. Discusses risk factors, telehealth, and pandemic related challenges.
...telehealth, and pandemic related challenges. --- Stroke Prevention and Management in Rural Georgia: Evaluating the Effectiveness...
Date: Jan 2021
Discusses the use of telehealth to initiate tobacco cessation programs in rural areas as a means of limiting comorbidity and mortality during the COVID-19 pandemic. Highlights the rates of tobacco use in rural areas by type and compares rates to urban areas. Explores several examples of programs using telemedicine to implement successful models of tobacco cessation treatment in the U.S.
...telehealth to initiate tobacco cessation programs in rural areas as a means of limiting comorbidity...
Date: Feb 2021
Examines existing laws and services in Pennsylvania and offers recommendations to ensure that sexual assault victims receive quality, trauma-informed medical care. Includes recommendations to promote a certified sexual assault nurse examiner (SANE) program, increase the use of telehealth, and provide for a designation for hospitals, based on their ability to provide comprehensive sexual assault services. Features a section comparing availability of certified SANE nurses in rural and urban areas.
...telehealth, and provide for a designation for hospitals, based on their ability to provide comprehensive...
Date: Dec 2021
Discusses legislative trends to support rural healthcare access and facilities. Includes information on developing loan repayment programs for medical providers in rural areas, supporting behavioral healthcare, expanding telehealth, and creating broadband infrastructure.
...telehealth, and creating broadband infrastructure. --- ASTHO Legislative Prospectus: Rural Health Discusses legislative trends to support...
Date: Apr 2024
Explores whether a guideline-directed medical therapy (GDMT) is initiated and titrated through telehealth improves GDMT use among patients with heart failure with reduced ejection fraction in Navajo Nation. Summarizes results of a stepped-wedge, pragmatic comparative effectiveness trial conducted from February to August 2023 at two Indian Health Service facilities in rural Navajo Nation. Discusses the importance of community-designed and locally-tailored strategies to improve GDMT rates.
...telehealth improves GDMT use among patients with heart failure with reduced ejection fraction in Navajo...
Date: Jan 2019
Examines policy and funding options to provide for the long-term sustainability of Project ECHO, a telehealth mentoring program supporting the health workforce in rural and underserved areas. Offers state and federal policy recommendations, discussing how each would work, action steps, and feasibility.
...telehealth mentoring program supporting the health workforce in rural and underserved areas. Offers state and federal...