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RHIhub Issue Guide
Cybersecurity for Rural Healthcare Facilities
Our new Issue Guide describes the risks rural healthcare facilities face related to cyberattacks and identifies cybersecurity tools and resources available to help prepare and respond.
The Rural Monitor
Growing the Rural Physician
Workforce: Decades of Federal Funding Impacts Rural
Graduate Medical Education
From the 2036 physician supply predictions: 6% shortage
in urban, but 56% in rural. With supply influenced by 100
years of attitudes, health policies, and federal funding,
this historical review leads up to the recent decades of
new federal funding and policies that experts said will
be changing this geographic maldistribution of
physicians.
News Headlines
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Community Health Workers Spread Across the US, Even in Rural Areas
South Dakota Searchlight, KFF Health News -
USDA Partners With White House, National Rural Water Association to Strengthen Cybersecurity for Rural Water Systems
Rural Development, United States Department of Agriculture
New in the Online Library
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Access to Health Care in Rural America: Current Trends and Key Challenges
Source: HHS Office of the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation -
Medical Debt in Collections among Counties by Rural- Urban Location and Racial-Ethnic Composition
Source: University of Minnesota Rural Health Research Center -
Trends in the Health Workforce Supply in the Rural U.S.
Source: WWAMI Rural Health Research Center
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