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 2021
Discusses the challenges of diagnosing and treating pediatric mild traumatic brain injury (mTBI) in rural areas. Covers recommendations and rules for computerized tomography (CT) scans and symptom assessment, recovery and support for patients, educational resources for patients and families, and telemedicine as an option that increases access to follow-up care for mTBI.
...Health Association Access · Children and youth · Emergency medical services · Health screening · Injuries · Primary care · Telehealth...
Date: 2017
Details a study on the role of privately funded programs filling in the gaps between the Military Health System (MHS), the Veterans Health Administration (VHA), and civilian healthcare providers in providing mental healthcare to veterans returning from deployment.
...from deployment. 2017 RAND Corporation Access · Healthcare quality · Mental health · Mental health conditions · Telehealth · Veterans...
Reviewed: Sep 8, 2026
Summary information for the organization Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology, including related information from this organization listed on the RHIhub website.
...technology (HIT) and promotes nationwide health information exchange to improve healthcare. Telehealth and Health Information Technology...
Date: Dec 2021
Explores the feasibility, safety, and effectiveness of home-based blood pressure telemonitoring with remote hypertension management among a predominately rural and low-income population in Mississippi. Summarizes results of a study on 120 individuals conducted from September 4, 2018, through June 15, 2020.
...Hypertension, 78(6), 1927-1929 12/2021 Cardiovascular disease · Healthcare quality · Statistics and data · Telehealth · Mississippi...
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: Feb 2023
Policy brief discussing the current rural maternal healthcare workforce and their capacity to manage obstetric emergencies during pregnancy, labor, and delivery. Offers recommendations to promote obstetric readiness for emergency care in rural hospitals without obstetric units and support for community-based, emergency department-adjacent health workers.
...Maternal health and prenatal care · Maternal health workforce · Medicaid · Policy · Reimbursement and payment models · Telehealth...
Date: Mar 2019
Describes strategies and actions for hospitals and health systems that want to start, strengthen, and sustain telebehavioral health programs. Details six elements for successful telebehavioral health implementation: leadership commitment; organizational policies and clinical workflows; staff education and training; patient, family, and caregiver engagement; measurement; and community partnerships. Provides tools and resources for each element of success.
...Forum Behavioral health · Community engagement and volunteerism · Health workforce education and training · Hospitals · Leadership · Telehealth...
Date: Feb 2015
Policy paper discussing the unique challenges of providing behavioral healthcare services in rural areas. Includes policy recommendations and interventions related to workforce development, reimbursement and financing, integration of care, and the use of technology in delivering behavioral healthcare.
...health workforce · Health workforce shortage designations · Integrated service delivery · Policy · Reimbursement and payment models · Telehealth...
Date: Feb 2015
Policy paper addresses comprehensive quality improvement for rural healthcare by incorporating and tailoring strategies from the National Quality Strategy (NQS) aims of better care, healthy people/communities, and affordable care to better suit rural healthcare. Includes four broad steps to help guide rural facilities through the quality improvement process.
...Gretchen Holmes, Mary Smith 02/2015 National Rural Health Association Health workforce · Healthcare quality · Policy · Telehealth...