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Date: Sep 2018
Discusses the advantages of implementing telestroke in rural acute care hospitals, including Critical Access Hospitals (CAHs), where stroke mortality is higher than in urban settings. Identifies the community and hospital characteristics associated with the adoption of the telestroke approach in acute care hospitals in North Carolina.
...Access Hospitals · Emergency department and urgent care services · Hospitals · Statistics and data · Telehealth · North Carolina...
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: Apr 2018
Analyzes the effectiveness of providing weight management programs through remote delivery offered at 5 primary care clinics serving rural populations. Remote weight management programs included group phone conferences (GP) and individual phones calls (IP), with comparisons to enhanced usual care (EUC) consisting of individual face-to-face meetings.
...04/2018 Obesity and weight control · Primary care · Rural Health Clinics · Statistics and data · Telehealth · Kansas...
Added: Jul 30, 2026
The WVU Cancer Institute deploys mobile units Bonnie's Bus and LUCAS to screen for breast and lung cancer in West Virginia's rural counties.
...telehealth services and local providers for patients interested in tobacco cessation. Models represented by this...
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: 2017
Reports on a pilot program conducted by the National Multiple Sclerosis Society and faculty from the University of Washington School of Medicine using the Project Extension for Community Healthcare Outcomes (Project ECHO) model. Determines if the Project Echo model was a viable option to support the capacity of clinicians in rural areas to effectively treat patients with Multiple Sclerosis (MS) in underserved areas.
...Health workforce education and training · Specialty care · Statistics and data · Telehealth · Alaska · Idaho · Montana · Washington...
Added: Jul 30, 2026
Evidence-based and promising models for providing mobile healthcare in rural areas.
...telehealth, mobile health professionals can identify medication errors, environmental risks, or problems that may be missed...
Date: May 2016
Demonstrates the trends in the use of telemedicine utilization by rural Medicare beneficiaries between 2004 and 2013. Data is derived from Current Procedural Terminology (CPT) codes or telemedicine-specific codes, using Medicare's definition for rural. Includes a table comparing patient characteristics for Medicare beneficiaries with and without a telemedicine visit in 2013.
...Journal of the American Medical Association, 315(18), 2015–2016 05/2016 Medicare · Statistics and data · Telehealth...
Date: Jan 2020
Discusses an asynchronous infectious disease eConsultation program for hospitalized patients, and examines the program's effect on mortality, readmission, and hospital transfer at two rural Minnesota hospitals. Compares the implementation of this service with other telemedicine programs. Describes referring provider and infection disease specialists' satisfaction with the eConsultation service.
...Open Forum Infectious Diseases, 7(1) 01/2020 Access · Infectious diseases · Inpatient care · Mortality · Telehealth · Minnesota...
Added: Jul 30, 2026
Describes the use of mobile models to provide oral health services in rural areas.
...telehealth-enabled referrals to local dentists. Implementation Considerations Important considerations for rural communities implementing mobile...