Website Search Results for: telehealth
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Date: Jan 2017
Explores telemedicine as a potential delivery tool for the Medicare Obesity Benefit in primary care settings. Describes challenges in implementing the benefit in rural areas, including increasing older adult populations, shortages in primary care and specialized healthcare providers, reimbursement issues, and transportation barriers. Presents the potential utility of telemedicine in rural obesity care and non-physician staff delivery options, which require regulatory changes.
...Geriatrics, 17, 6 01/2017 Access · Medicare · Obesity and weight control · Older adults · Reimbursement and payment models · Telehealth...
Date: Jan 2017
Highlights the improvement in access to eye care and screening services for veterans as a result of the Technology-based Eye Care Services (TECS), a quality improvement project developed by the Atlanta Veterans Affairs (VA). Provides data on patient demographics, eye care service, and diagnoses broken down by Rural-Urban Commuting Area.
...Health, 17(1), 4045 01/2017 Access · Health screening · Rural-urban differences · Statistics and data · Telehealth · Veterans...
Date: Sep 2024
Assesses community perspectives on the acceptability of ambulance-based prehospital stroke telemedicine services in rural and urban communities in O'ahu, Hawai'i. Utilizes questionnaire results of 263 adults recruited from community events, with additional data from 29 follow-up interviews. Compares rural and urban attitudes toward ambulance telestroke services, local hospitals, and Hawai'i's healthcare system, and identifies positive and negative themes affecting acceptability.
...09/2024 Access · Cardiovascular disease · Emergency medical services · Rural-urban differences · Statistics and data · Telehealth · Hawaii...
Date: Sep 2016
Determines the effectiveness of Abstinence Reinforcement Therapy (ART), a smoking cessation intervention, among rural veterans. ART combines evidenced-based cognitive-behavioral telephone counseling (TC), a telemedicine clinic for access to nicotine replacement (NRT), and mobile contingency management (mCM) compared to TC and NRT alone.
...Technology for health and human services · Telehealth · Tobacco use · Veterans · Wellness, health promotion, and disease prevention...
Date: Aug 2015
Analyzes therapy provided over the phone and its impact on symptoms of anxiety and depression among aging populations in rural areas that lack mental health services.
...Psychiatry, 72(10), 1012-1020 08/2015 Access · Mental health · Mental health conditions · Older adults · Telehealth...
Date: Feb 2012
Details a study on the use of telemedicine to treat post-traumatic stress disorder among American Indian and Alaska Native veterans. Discusses the use of video conferencing to provide access to care for rural Native veterans seeking mental health services.
...Services, 63(2), 179-181 02/2012 Access · Mental health · Mental health conditions · Telehealth · Tribal communities · Veterans...
Reviewed: Jul 31, 2026
Shares insights from a December 2025 summit in Hutchinson, Kansas that brought together leaders from eight organizations addressing healthcare workforce shortages through innovative recruitment, training, and retention strategies.
...telehealth, deploying mobile teams of nurses and community health workers to reach patients that clinic...
Date: Jan 2014
Describes the challenges and motivators regarding the implementation of a telemental health pilot project in rural outpatient clinics to improve access to mental health services for rural veterans.
...Telemedicine Journal and e-Health, 2D(1), 83-85 01/2014 Clinics · Mental health · Telehealth · Veterans...
Date: Apr 2009
Describes a study and medical trial to provide telepsychology services for depressed, elderly veterans living in rural America.
...Lisa K. Richardson, et al. Trials, 10, 22 04/2009 Mental health · Older adults · Telehealth · Veterans...
Date: Apr 2010
Features a study on the use of technology in providing rural veterans' access to healthcare. Focuses on patient demographics, travel distance, and comfort with computer use, among others.
...Priscilla A West Perspectives in Health Information Management, 7(Spring), 1f 04/2010 Access · Telehealth · Veterans...