Rural Health
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Digital Healthcare Research: AHRQ - Funded Projects
Provides a searchable listing of AHRQ grantee projects in health information technology (HIT) that explore and test a wide range of HIT applications with the potential to transform everyday clinical practice. Select "Rural Populations" under Population to focus on rural HIT examples.
Sponsoring organization: Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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Provides a searchable listing of AHRQ grantee projects in health information technology (HIT) that explore and test a wide range of HIT applications with the potential to transform everyday clinical practice. Select "Rural Populations" under Population to focus on rural HIT examples.
Sponsoring organization: Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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Border Health and Migration
Provides information on health issues in the U.S.-Mexico border region, border and binational programs and activities, and resources to address border health.
Sponsoring organization: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
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Provides information on health issues in the U.S.-Mexico border region, border and binational programs and activities, and resources to address border health.
Sponsoring organization: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
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Frontier Community Health Integration Project (FCHIP) Demonstration
Describes the Frontier Community Health Integration Project (FCHIP) demonstration including the project purpose, legislation, eligible states, partners, and program contacts. The initial demonstration ended in July 2019. However, the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2021, authorized a five-year extension period for participating Critical Access Hospitals.
Sponsoring organization: Rural Health Information Hub
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Describes the Frontier Community Health Integration Project (FCHIP) demonstration including the project purpose, legislation, eligible states, partners, and program contacts. The initial demonstration ended in July 2019. However, the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2021, authorized a five-year extension period for participating Critical Access Hospitals.
Sponsoring organization: Rural Health Information Hub
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Frontier Extended Stay Clinics (FESC)
Describes the Frontier Extended Stay Clinic (FESC) program including the legislation, definition, project timeline, participants, early findings, and program contact information. The demonstration ended in April 2013.
Sponsoring organization: Rural Health Information Hub
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Describes the Frontier Extended Stay Clinic (FESC) program including the legislation, definition, project timeline, participants, early findings, and program contact information. The demonstration ended in April 2013.
Sponsoring organization: Rural Health Information Hub
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Kansas County Profile Reports
Interactive data map for each county in Kansas, providing information on demographics, infrastructure, hospitalizations and emergency department (ED) visits, and environmental conditions.
Sponsoring organization: Kansas Department of Health and Environment
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Interactive data map for each county in Kansas, providing information on demographics, infrastructure, hospitalizations and emergency department (ED) visits, and environmental conditions.
Sponsoring organization: Kansas Department of Health and Environment
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Nevada Rural Hospital Partners Revenue Cycle Improvement Program
Describes a revenue cycle improvement program (RCIP) designed to enable small and rural hospitals to achieve optimal financial performance in a challenging financial and regulatory environment.
Sponsoring organization: Nevada Rural Hospital Partners
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Describes a revenue cycle improvement program (RCIP) designed to enable small and rural hospitals to achieve optimal financial performance in a challenging financial and regulatory environment.
Sponsoring organization: Nevada Rural Hospital Partners
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SIM - SD: Simulation in Motion - South Dakota
A mobile education program that brings technologically advanced training of emergency patient care to rural South Dakota's pre-hospital and hospital emergency care providers. Uses human-like, computerized mannequins.
Sponsoring organization: South Dakota Department of Health
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A mobile education program that brings technologically advanced training of emergency patient care to rural South Dakota's pre-hospital and hospital emergency care providers. Uses human-like, computerized mannequins.
Sponsoring organization: South Dakota Department of Health
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Mental Health First Aid
Details a public education program to assist the public in identifying, understanding, and responding to signs of mental illnesses and substance use disorders. Provides a "Find a Course" link to access mental health first aid instructors who will train residents in rural areas.
Sponsoring organization: National Council for Mental Wellbeing
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Details a public education program to assist the public in identifying, understanding, and responding to signs of mental illnesses and substance use disorders. Provides a "Find a Course" link to access mental health first aid instructors who will train residents in rural areas.
Sponsoring organization: National Council for Mental Wellbeing
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New Mexico Project ECHO
Supports the ECHO model of sharing medical knowledge and expanding treatment capacity in areas of need, both rural and urban, by connecting local clinicians in weekly virtual clinics with specialists located at academic medical centers.
Sponsoring organization: University of New Mexico School of Medicine
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Supports the ECHO model of sharing medical knowledge and expanding treatment capacity in areas of need, both rural and urban, by connecting local clinicians in weekly virtual clinics with specialists located at academic medical centers.
Sponsoring organization: University of New Mexico School of Medicine
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Project ECHO Nevada
Provides training and indirect telehealth consultations to increase health care and public health professionals' capacity to effectively address emerging, common, chronic, and complex conditions in populations throughout Nevada. Connects urban, university-based subject matter experts with health care and public health professionals through regularly scheduled teleconference sessions where professionals can speak directly with specialists to review their challenging patient cases for feedback and recommendations. On Demand Library offers video recordings of training sessions.
Additional links: On Demand Library
Sponsoring organization: University of Nevada, Reno School of Medicine Office of Statewide Initiatives
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Provides training and indirect telehealth consultations to increase health care and public health professionals' capacity to effectively address emerging, common, chronic, and complex conditions in populations throughout Nevada. Connects urban, university-based subject matter experts with health care and public health professionals through regularly scheduled teleconference sessions where professionals can speak directly with specialists to review their challenging patient cases for feedback and recommendations. On Demand Library offers video recordings of training sessions.
Additional links: On Demand Library
Sponsoring organization: University of Nevada, Reno School of Medicine Office of Statewide Initiatives
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