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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 · Elderly population · Medicare · Obesity and weight control · Reimbursement and payment models · Telehealth...
Date: May 2017
Details guidelines for telestroke services to assist providers with the assessment, diagnosis, management, and/or remote consultative support for patients showing signs and symptoms of a stroke using real time videoconferencing technology.
...Chong, et al. Telemedicine Journal and e-Health, 23(5), 376-389 05/2017 Cardiovascular disease · Telehealth...
Date: Mar 2025
Compares adherence to buprenorphine for opioid use disorder in telemedicine versus in-person healthcare in rural and urban populations. Utilizes 2017–2022 data from 511 adults and compares 3,302 in-person and 519 telemedicine visits, with breakdowns according to patient characteristics, adherence, gaps in treatment, and rural versus urban location. Discusses changing legislative requirements related to buprenorphine treatment and the potential impact on rural populations.
...Legislation and regulations · Prescription drug misuse · Rural-urban differences · Specialty care · Statistics and data · Telehealth...
Date: Feb 2025
Examines the Oregon HOPE TeleHCV study, which provided peer-facilitated telemedicine hepatitis C virus (HCV) treatment for people who use drugs (PWUD) in rural Oregon. Utilizes survey and interview data provided by patients and clinicians to identify effective strategies for building trust and reducing barriers to treatment at the systems, clinical, and peer levels.
...02/2025 Access · Behavioral health · Infectious diseases · Specialty care · Stigma · Substance use and misuse · Telehealth · Oregon...
Date: May 2021
Offers an overview of a program that provides HIV care to rural Alabama that started as an in-person service in rural clinics and transitioned to a telemedicine program. Includes a 10-step road map for planning and implementing a telemedicine program. Covers considerations for program development, including scheduling, service delivery, legal considerations, barriers and facilitators to planning, and technology. Free to download after registering name, organization, and email.
...email. 05/2021 AIDS United HIV and AIDS · Planning and strategy methods and resources · Telehealth · Alabama...
Date: Nov 2021
Report details Colorado's health information technology initiatives. Highlights initiative description, purpose, and outcomes, among other aspects. Features a timeline of the initiatives' implementation. Discusses how each initiative affects rural areas when applicable, as well as considerations of challenges posed by the COVID-19 pandemic.
...Innovation Infectious diseases · Population health · Public health · Technology for health and human services · Telehealth · Colorado...
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: Jun 15, 2022
For the 240,000 rural Americans with complete kidney failure, it's likely that very few knew they even had kidney disease. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, kidney disease is usually silent; 90% of people with kidney disease don't know they have it. With research pointing to the high costs of kidney disease for pediatric and adult patients alike — mostly covered by Medicare — experts and researchers discuss rural disparities around access to disease-stabilizing treatment and to renal replacement therapies. - The Rural Monitor
...telehealth program for their patients in Orofino and Cottonwood . He shared patient perceptions around the themes...
Date: Jul 30, 2015
Keith Mueller, Director of the RUPRI Center for Rural Health Policy Analysis, reflects on what the Medicare and Medicaid programs mean to local healthcare access for rural people, on the 50th anniversary of these programs. - The Rural Monitor
...telehealth) give us reason to forge ahead to work on behalf of rural Americans through...
Date: Jun 17, 2020
It is the most costly of chronic medical conditions. Described by some as "hidden" conditions, experts talk about the complex needs of rural Americans with Alzheimer's Disease and related dementias and their caregivers. - The Rural Monitor
...telehealth platforms for conducting care-based conferences in order to address medically and psychosocially complex...