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21. Leveraging Connected Care Strategies to Expand Rural Access to Healthcare - Resources
Date: Oct 2023

Recorded video that features a conversation focused on connected healthcare, healthcare access, and the digital divide in rural areas. Discusses the future of virtual care to improve access for rural communities and strategies to alleviate barriers to connected healthcare.

...digital divide in rural areas. Discusses the future of virtual care to improve access for rural...

22. Michigan Health IT Roadmap: "Bridge to Better Health" Report - Resources
Date: Jun 2022

Reports on the work of the Michigan Health IT (information technology) Commission to update the state's health IT strategy in 2020-2021. Focuses on initiatives to improve health data and public health, social determinants of health (SDOH) and the digital divide, onboarding and technical assistance, and more. Includes IT needs and strategies specific to rural areas.

...digital divide, onboarding and technical assistance, and more. Includes IT needs and strategies specific to rural...

23. Disparities in Virtual Cardiology Visits Among Veterans Health Administration Patients During the COVID-19 Pandemic - Resources
Date: Dec 2022

Presents the results of a study to determine how the COVID-19 pandemic, during the first year, influenced the digital divide for patients using virtual and video-based care in Veterans Health Administration (VA) cardiology clinics across the U.S. Study examined sociodemographic and clinical characteristics, drive time to care, geographic location – rural and urban – and encounter type to determine changes in access to care by video, phone, and face-to-face.

...digital divide for patients using virtual and video-based care in Veterans Health Administration (VA) cardiology...

24. Telehealth and Health Information Technology in Rural Healthcare Overview - Topic Guides
Reviewed: Apr 12, 2024

Provides resources and answers frequently asked questions related to telehealth and health information technology (HIT) in a rural setting. Discusses opportunities for these technologies to improve healthcare delivery, staffing, privacy, cybersecurity, broadband access, and other related topics.

...Digital Divides Persist Between Rural, Urban and Suburban America shows that rural residents continued to have...

25. Digital Health Interventions for All? Examining Inclusivity Across All Stages of the Digital Health Intervention Research Process - Resources
Date: Jan 2024

Discusses the benefits of digital health interventions as well as the digital health divide that creates barriers to inclusive research processes. Highlights study design interventions during the recruitment, enrollment, engagement, efficacy/effectiveness, and retention stages that can contribute to inclusivity for underserved populations, including rural.

...Digital Health Interventions for All? Examining Inclusivity Across All Stages of the Digital Health Intervention Research Process --- Discusses the benefits of digital health interventions as well as the digital health divide...

26. Educating Future Healthcare Providers: Health Literacy Opportunities for Webside Manners - The Rural Monitor - Rural Monitor
Date: Mar 9, 2022

Health literacy experts share that as healthcare delivery moves from bedside to webside, new opportunities for health literacy education arise. Emphasizing the need to swap medical jargon for plain language, educators outlined best practices for teaching health literacy principles to healthcare profession trainees. - The Rural Monitor

...digital divide — allows digital access to health information and care in the form of their...

27. Understanding the "Tool-ish-ness" of Telehealth: Q&A with Dr. Jonathan Neufeld - The Rural Monitor - Rural Monitor
Date: Dec 8, 2021

Clinical psychologist and program director for the Great Plains Telehealth Resource & Assistance Center, Dr. Jonathan Neufeld, clarifies telehealth as an "enabler" of healthcare delivery. Emphasizing that telehealth is only a set of telecommunication tools, he details how the unique use and flexibility of these tools by skilled providers can bring quality care and impact rural health equity. - The Rural Monitor

...digital divide is not going to be fixed tomorrow, despite the perpetually renewed investments being...

28. An Interview with Ajit Pai - The Rural Monitor - Rural Monitor
Date: Oct 28, 2015

Federal Communications Commissioner Ajit Pai discusses the critical need to expand broadband deployment in rural communities and the promise that broadband holds for rural healthcare. - The Rural Monitor

...digital divide in this country is between urban Americans, who can choose from multiple high...

29. Con Alma Health Foundation: Health Equity and COVID Relief - The Rural Monitor - Rural Monitor
Date: Jan 13, 2021

Dolores E. Roybal, executive director of Con Alma Health Foundation, discusses how her foundation partnered with other funders to provide almost $2 million in grants and created an advisory committee of immigrant-led, immigrant-serving organizations to address barriers limiting access to services. - The Rural Monitor

...digital divide where we really have inadequate broadband, and it affects our health, telehealth, our education...

30. Broadband in Rural America: Faster Speeds for Home and Healthcare - The Rural Monitor - Rural Monitor
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

...Digital Divide: What Is It, Where Is It, and Federal Assistance Programs defines broadband as “high...