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Date: Feb 2024
Examines the acceptability and feasibility of utilizing telemonitoring for rural lung disease patients who have limited access to hospital-based tests. Analyzes home-based spirometry use of 20 rural patients and provides patient feedback on satisfaction of using telehealth to complete remote monitoring of lung disease.
...telehealth to complete remote monitoring of lung disease. --- Assessing the Acceptability and Feasibility of Remote...
Date: 2025
Examines the relationship between provider-to-provider emergency department-based telehealth consultation (tele-ED) and the prevalence of sepsis in counties with elevated social vulnerability index (SVI) scores. Analyzes 2016-2019 data from 1191 patients treated in rural, Midwestern EDs, with breakdowns according to patient, provider, hospital, and county characteristics. Discusses the relationship between SVI scores and tele-ED use.
...telehealth consultation (tele-ED) and the prevalence of sepsis in counties with elevated social vulnerability...
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: Mar 2021
Annual review of Medicare payment policies, with recommendations to Congress. Includes discussion on Medicare payment policies directly affecting rural providers and beneficiaries. Addresses payment adequacy for healthcare facilities and services, improving Medicare payment for post-acute care, Medicare Advantage, Medicare Part D, and the impact of healthcare provider consolidation. Contains information on the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on Medicare beneficiary healthcare access, mortality, and service use. Presents an option for Medicare's coverage of telehealth beyond the public health emergency.
...telehealth beyond the public health emergency. --- MedPAC Report to the Congress: Medicare Payment Policy, 2021 Annual...
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: Oct 2020
Offers policy and program development recommendations to the Secretary of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services regarding primary care training and education. Recommendations cover longitudinal community-based training programs, chronic disease prevention and management, population health education and training, and telehealth education and training. Includes rural references throughout.
...telehealth education and training. Includes rural references throughout. --- Innovations in Primary Care Education and Training...
Date: Nov 7, 2023
The November 2023 episode of RHIhub's podcast includes two interviews leading up to National Health Day on November 16th. Features interviews with Tammy Norville, National Organization of State Offices of Rural Health (NOSORH) CEO, and Jason Lillich, Executive Director of Three Rivers Mental Health and Chemical Dependency Center, a 2023 National Rural Health Day Community Star.
...telehealth services, so we can connect by audio-visual telehealth. And then we also have...
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: Jan 2024
Discusses legislation that relates to equitable access to healthcare, with a focus on telehealth, infrastructure, safety net services, management of healthcare costs, and the expansion of the healthcare workforce. Includes information on access to emergency departments in rural areas and the Rural Emergency Hospital (REH) designation.
...telehealth, infrastructure, safety net services, management of healthcare costs, and the expansion of the healthcare...
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...