Website Search Results for: telehealth
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Date: Dec 2022
Provides an overview of the U.S. Department of Agriculture's ReConnect program, which provides loans, grants, and loan/grant combinations to build and enhance broadband infrastructure in eligible rural service areas. Summarizes program details, funding allocations, the three rounds of awards, and funding awards by state. Compares the ReConnect program with other USDA broadband programs. Identifies issues that may impact the program's effectiveness, related legislation introduced in the 117th Congress, and potential policy options.
...Congress, and potential policy options. 12/2022 Congressional Research Service Access · Broadband · Funding · Infrastructure · Policy · Telehealth...
Date: Jun 2020
Provides a discussion of mental healthcare workforce occupations and examines the factors that led to shortages in these fields. Describes how telemedicine can be used to extend the mental healthcare workforce in rural Pennsylvania and determines how state government entities can encourage more people to enter and remain in the mental healthcare workforce. Makes recommendations including increasing the number of psychiatric residencies in rural areas and designating more Rural Health Clinics. Includes a county-level map of Mental Health Professional Shortage Areas.
...health · Recruitment and retention of health professionals · Rural Health Clinics · Statistics and data · Telehealth · Pennsylvania...
Date: 2023
Presents a workshop focusing on mental healthcare access for veterans. Discusses some of the challenges the VA faces in delivering mental healthcare to veterans, particularly those in rural and low-income communities. Explores methods to improve mental health access and highlights best practices.
...health · Mental health conditions · Statistics and data · Telehealth · Veterans · Wellness, health promotion, and disease prevention...
Date: Dec 2018
Describes changes to the Controlled Substance Act (CSA) authorizing special registration for telemedicine to increase access to healthcare providers that can prescribe controlled substances using telemedicine, with the goal of helping address the opioid crisis and shortage of mental health providers. Outlines the seven categories for the practice of telemedicine under the authority of the CSA. The Drug Enforcement Administration plans to publish the related proposed rule to finalize the registration process and procedures.
...Policy · Prescription drug misuse · Substance use and misuse · Telehealth · Wellness, health promotion, and disease prevention...
Date: May 2024
Analyzes the 2018 Farm Bill by comparing House and Senate versions of the bill and the previous 2014 bill. Includes important rural provisions addressing substance abuse treatment, telemedicine funding, broadband access, and rural hospital loans.
...05/2024 Congressional Research Service Broadband · Funding · Hospitals · Legislation and regulations · Substance use and misuse · Telehealth...
Date: Jul 2023
Examines the impact of telemedicine on reducing carbon emissions in Illinois. Provides metro versus nonmetro estimates as well as county-level estimates of carbon emissions savings in both outpatient and hospital settings.
...Affairs County-by-county data · Environmental health · Hospitals · Outpatient care · Rural-urban differences · Telehealth · Illinois...
Date: Sep 2020
Examines the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on U.S. households. Covers health, economic, and work-related impacts and related issues such as broadband access. Includes a section on problems specific to rural households. A separate report is available that focuses specifically on rural impacts of COVID-19.
...COVID-19 · Employment and unemployment · Population health · Poverty · Rural-urban differences · Statistics and data · Telehealth...
Updates on rural funding by topic via the Rural Health Information Hub's RSS feeds.
...Telehealth https://www.ruralhealthinfo.org/rss/funding/topics/telehealth.xml The South https://www.ruralhealthinfo.org/rss/funding/topics/the-south.xml Tobacco use https://www.ruralhealthinfo.org/rss/funding/topics/tobacco-use.xml Transportation...
Reviewed: Oct 9, 2025
Summary information for the organization Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society, including related information from this organization listed on the RHIhub website.
...ensure quality patient care, including rural specific resources and tools. Telehealth and Health Information Technology...
Date: Mar 22, 2017
Resistant bacteria, or "superbugs," are a cause of major medical illness and death. Government and accreditation agencies, as well as infectious disease experts, believe hospital antibiotic stewardship programs are the answer to blunting the impact and development of these germs. Despite limited resources, rural and Critical Access Hospitals are activating their stewardship programs. - The Rural Monitor
...Telehealth program. "We're working with each hospital to set up individual stewardship programs that...