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Date: Sep 2026
Discusses how Maryland's Washington and Allegany County Health Departments implemented a telehealth program providing hepatitis C treatment in rural areas in collaboration with Johns Hopkins University. Details rural barriers to accessing care and describes implementation successes and challenges.
...Telehealth: Lessons Learned from the Maryland ACCESS Telehealth Program --- Discusses how Maryland's Washington and Allegany...
Date: Jul 2021
Presents the results of an environmental scan of literature related to barriers and facilitators of rural telehealth for healthcare system readiness, as well as a scan of quality measures relevant to rural telehealth during emergencies. Summarizes policies and practices related to telehealth and the healthcare system, with a focus on federal policy changes due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
...telehealth during emergencies. Summarizes policies and practices related to telehealth and the healthcare system, with...
Date: Nov 2024
Explores the balance between telehealth and in-person care for serious mental illness (SMI) and children with serious emotional disturbance (SED). Summarizes findings from an environmental scan and focus groups with mental health providers, adults with SMI, and parents of children with SED. Discusses how focus group participants made decisions about using telehealth versus in-person mental healthcare and how telehealth impacted access to care and engagement in treatment relative to in-person services.
...telehealth versus in-person mental healthcare and how telehealth impacted access to care and engagement...
Date: May 2021
Provides an overview of changes made to Medicare's coverage of telehealth during the COVID-19 pandemic. Explores Medicare beneficiaries' use of telehealth in summer and fall 2020, and presents data by beneficiary demographic characteristics, dual-eligibility, presence and type of chronic conditions, and metropolitan status. Examines issues and questions regarding telehealth coverage beyond the COVID-19 public health emergency.
...telehealth during the COVID-19 pandemic. Explores Medicare beneficiaries' use of telehealth in summer and fall...
Date: Aug 2025
Analyzes patient characteristics associated with telehealth use among rural California adults, utilizing electronic health record data of 9,359 patients dwelling in rural California ZIP codes. Provides data on patients' telehealth modality, provider type, portal activation, level of rurality, age, primary language, and other clinical and demographic characteristics. Discusses policy approaches to improving telehealth access in rural areas.
...telehealth access in rural areas. --- Video and Telephone Telehealth Use and Web-Based Patient Portal...
Date: Jan 2023
Explores the availability of telehealth and oncology services across geographic and sociodemographic domains before the start of the COVID-19 pandemic. Utilizes 2019 and 2020 data sources to examine hospital characteristics by telehealth and oncology services, with information on hospital ownership, number of hospital beds, Health Professional Shortage Area (HPSA) status, presence of Rural Health Clinic (RHC) co-located at hospital, and more. Includes availability of telehealth, oncology, and hospital services broken down by county; HPSA status; income, average age, and race/ethnicity of residents; ratio of population to primary care physicians; rural noncore, rural micropolitan, or urban status; and more.
...Telehealth for Cancer Care in the United States --- Explores the availability of telehealth and oncology...
Date: Aug 2024
Explores the role of telehealth in improving healthcare access and outcomes in surgical oncology. Discusses geographic barriers to surgical oncology interventions how telehealth can help mitigate barriers to access. Highlights strategies to improve telehealth access and adoption.
...Telehealth to Improve Healthcare Access and Outcomes in Surgical Oncology --- Explores the role of telehealth...
Date: Oct 2021
Presents a recording of an October 7, 2021, hearing before the U.S. Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation Subcommittee on Communications, Media, and Broadband. Examines the importance of access to telehealth services, telehealth utilization during the COVID-19 pandemic, the impact of the pandemic on telehealth regulations, and the role of broadband access in the public health response. Features testimony from the American Academy of Family Physicians, Project ECHO, Avel eCare, and the Federal Communications Commission.
...telehealth services, telehealth utilization during the COVID-19 pandemic, the impact of the pandemic on telehealth...
Date: Jun 2025
Examines the impact of telehealth on access to medication for opioid use disorder (MOUD) and substance use disorder (SUD) and opioid use disorder (OUD) treatment. Utilizes data from the Rural Communities Opioid Response Program's (RCORP) consortia, the National Survey of Drug Use and Health (NSDUH), and the U.S. Census Bureau's American Community Survey (ACS) to analyze access to MOUD and rates of telehealth use for rural consortia. Discusses potential barriers and factors impacting telehealth implementation for SUD and OUD care.
...telehealth use for rural consortia. Discusses potential barriers and factors impacting telehealth implementation for SUD and OUD care...
Date: Dec 2022
Explores how rural chief financial officers (CFOs) and hospital administrators perceive the financial impacts of telehealth in their facilities. Analyzes 30 interview responses from CFOs and administrators between October 2021 and January 2022 about the perceived benefits and challenges of telehealth programs. Discusses opportunities to improve telehealth infrastructure to make the modality more cost effective for hospitals.
...telehealth programs. Discusses opportunities to improve telehealth infrastructure to make the modality more cost effective...