Rural Monitor Search Results for: digital divide
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Date: Feb 2, 2022
The priority for rural population health is access, including access to health information needed to make personal health decisions. Two of the nation's health literacy experts join a federal agency official to review current rural challenges of accessing health information that is clear and usable. Along with an exploration of digital health literacy, recently expanded definitions of health literacy are discussed. - The Rural Monitor
...digital divide." Digital Decision-Making Health Tools While the solution to the rural digital divide...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Date: Feb 21, 2024
CommHIT, a nonprofit based at the Kennedy Space Center, has worked at the intersection of rural health and technology for over a decade. Now, as an awardee of the Federal Office of Rural Health Policy (FORHP) Rural Public Health Workforce Training Network (RPHWTN) grant program, the organization is assisting Florida partners with workforce development initiatives and technology-related training programs. - The Rural Monitor
...digital literacy and security by focusing on the development of health technology, community paramedicine, and community health workers.” The program encompasses numerous initiatives, broadly divided...
Date: Dec 13, 2023
As the pandemic receded, many rural healthcare providers began to feel the acute effects of another crisis impacting communities across the country: a severe local housing shortage. In response, some organizations are forming unique partnerships and implementing creative solutions. - The Rural Monitor
...Housing Shortages Are Making Recruitment and Retention Even More Challenging for Some Rural Healthcare Providers...