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651. Applying AI to Rural Health, with Jordan Berg - Resources
Date: Aug 2024

An episode of the Exploring Rural Health podcast featuring Jordan Berg, Principal Investigator for the National Telehealth Technology Assessment Resource Center. Focuses on applications of AI in rural healthcare, as well as how patient information in an AI system is safeguarded.

...Telehealth Technology Assessment Resource Center. Focuses on applications of AI in rural healthcare, as well...

652. Provider-to-Provider Telemedicine for Sepsis Is Used Less Frequently in Communities with High Social Vulnerability - Resources
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...

653. Supportive Services and Caregiving for Older Rural Adults: Policy Brief and Recommendations to the Secretary - Resources
Date: Aug 2019

Provides an overview of current supportive services and caregiving policies for rural older adults, in terms of availability, accessibility, and acceptability of services. Explores topics including long-term services and supports, telehealth, care coordination, transportation, stigma, and unpaid caregivers, and describes federal programs for older adults. Offers policy recommendations and considerations.

...telehealth, care coordination, transportation, stigma, and unpaid caregivers, and describes federal programs for older adults...

654. Quality Improvement and Care Coordination: Implementing the CDC Guideline for Prescribing Opioids for Chronic Pain - Resources
Date: 2018

A guide to help primary care providers, practices, and healthcare systems manage patients who are on long-term opioid therapy. Provides an evidence-based prescribing guideline, quality improvement measures, and practice-level care coordination strategies. Appendix F provides examples of comprehensive management approaches, including discussion of telehealth approaches that could be used in rural communities.

...telehealth approaches that could be used in rural communities. --- View more Quality Improvement and Care...

655. Telemedicine vs Telephone Consultations and Medication Prescribing Errors Among Referring Physicians: A Cluster Randomized Crossover Trial - Resources
Date: Feb 2024

Compared 696 acutely ill children in 15 community and rural California emergency departments receiving telephone or video consultations to determine differences in physician-related medication errors. Discusses the impact of telehealth on healthcare quality and remote acute care.

...telehealth on healthcare quality and remote acute care. --- View more Telemedicine vs Telephone Consultations and Medication...

656. Evaluating the HCIA - Behavioral Health/Substance Abuse Awards: First Annual Report - Resources
Date: Dec 2014

Evaluations of 10 Health Care Innovation Awards Round One projects focused on mental health and substance abuse services. Provides information on whether and how each project addressed the needs of underserved areas, including rural areas. One rural-focused project used telehealth to deliver services. Other projects provided transportation to help meet rural needs.

...telehealth to deliver services. Other projects provided transportation to help meet rural needs. --- View more...

657. Beneficiary and Clinician Perspectives on Medicare and Other Issues: Findings from 2023 Focus Groups in Select States - Resources
Date: Feb 2024

Summarizes findings from 24 focus groups of Medicare beneficiaries, Medicare and Medicaid (dual eligible) beneficiaries, and clinicians conducted between May and July 2023, including three virtual focus groups of rural Medicare beneficiaries. Highlights themes that emerged across the focus groups covering Medicare coverage options, access to care, telehealth, organization of care, and prescription drugs.

...telehealth, organization of care, and prescription drugs. --- View more Beneficiary and Clinician Perspectives on Medicare...

658. Cost Effectiveness of On-site versus Off-site Depression Collaborative Care in Rural Federally Qualified Health Centers - Resources
Date: May 2015

Highlights a study on the cost-effectiveness of on-site versus a telehealth-based collaborative care when treating depression in a rural Federally Qualified Health Center (FQHC). Considers variable, fixed, inpatient, and outpatient costs, among others.

...telehealth-based collaborative care when treating depression in a rural Federally Qualified Health Center (FQHC...

659. Evaluating the HCIA - Behavioral Health/Substance Abuse Awards: Second Annual Report - Resources
Date: Mar 2016

Second annual evaluations of 10 Health Care Innovation Awards Round One projects focused on mental health and substance abuse services. Offers overviews of all projects, including HealthLinkNow, which uses telehealth to provide behavioral care services in rural areas, and the Prevention and Recovery in Early Psychosis Program, which was expanded to serve to rural counties in California.

...telehealth to provide behavioral care services in rural areas, and the Prevention and Recovery in Early...

660. MedPAC Comment on CMS's Proposed Rule on the Physician Fee Schedule and Other Revisions to Part B for CY 2021 - Resources
Date: Oct 2020

Comment on an August 17, 2020 Federal Register proposed rule revising the physician fee schedule to improve payment systems for physicians and other Medicare Part B revisions. Includes a discussion of COVID-19-related telehealth expansion.

...telehealth expansion. --- View more MedPAC Comment on CMS's Proposed Rule on the Physician Fee Schedule...