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1. Digital Health Interventions for All? Examining Inclusivity Across All Stages of the Digital Health Intervention Research Process
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...

2. Closing the Broadband Infrastructure Gap: State Grant Funds and the Digital Divide
Added: Dec 2023

Analyzes Pew Trusts data on awarded broadband grants in 17 states between 2014 and 2020 to determine common characteristics of funded projects, criteria for allocation, and communities reached. Includes discussion of implications for Broadband Equity, Access, and Deployment (BEAD) funds and the impact on existing disparities. Offers rural and urban comparisons.

...Digital Divide --- Analyzes Pew Trusts data on awarded broadband grants in 17 states between 2014 and 2020 to determine...

3. Geographic Variations in Driving Time to U.S. Mental Health Care, Digital Access to Technology, & Household Crowdedness
Date: Dec 2023

Evaluated distance to mental health services, household crowdedness, and access to technology and broadband alongside rurality to determine barriers to mental healthcare for both rural and urban residents in 31,924 ZIP Code Tabulation Areas (ZCTAs). Discusses implications for telehealth and policy measures addressing the digital divide.

...digital divide. --- View more Geographic Variations in Driving Time to U.S. Mental Health Care, Digital...

4. Why Do Older, White, Rural Residents Have Slower Broadband Speeds?
Date: Nov 2023

Evaluates the role of age and rurality in slower broadband speeds for older, white, rural residents. Discusses the concept of a reverse digital divide.

...digital divide. --- View more Why Do Older, White, Rural Residents Have Slower Broadband Speeds? Link...

5. Leveraging Connected Care Strategies to Expand Rural Access to Healthcare
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...

6. Assessing Access to Digital Services in Health Care–Underserved Communities in the United States: A Cross-Sectional Study
Date: Sep 2023

Grouped 3108 counties in the contiguous U.S. based on their access to broadband, access to healthcare, and social vulnerability. Discusses trends in rural counties and regions of the country within these groups and makes recommendations to decrease the digital divide.

...digital divide. --- View more Assessing Access to Digital Services in Health Care–Underserved Communities in the United...

7. Maximizing New Federal Investments in Broadband for Rural America
Date: May 2023

Policy brief covering the Broadband Equity, Access, and Deployment program with recommendations for stakeholders on how to close the digital divide for rural America. Discusses transparency and accountability, capacity building and community engagement, and implementation.

...digital divide for rural America. Discusses transparency and accountability, capacity building and community engagement, and implementation...

8. Digital Access: A Super Determinant of Health
Date: Mar 2023

Discusses how the digital divide intersects with health equity and behavioral health and how telehealth can bridge health disparities. Describes local, state, and federal examples of efforts to reduce the digital divide. Includes a list of funding opportunities and resources promoting broadband access.

...Digital Access: A Super Determinant of Health --- Discusses how the digital divide intersects with health...

9. Broadband in Kansas: The Challenges of Digital Access and Affordability
Date: Mar 2023

Provides an overview of broadband access in Kansas, including adequacy, affordability, digital literacy, and satisfaction. Provides county-level maps depicting data related to broadband access and discusses the rural-urban digital divide.

...digital literacy, and satisfaction. Provides county-level maps depicting data related to broadband access and discusses the rural-urban digital divide...

10. Disparities in Virtual Cardiology Visits Among Veterans Health Administration Patients During the COVID-19 Pandemic
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...