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Date: Jul 15, 2024
Discusses rural healthcare viability challenges including telehealth and broadband access, reimbursement rates, and an end of pandemic-era funding. Source: Health Leaders Media.
...telehealth and broadband access, reimbursement rates, and an end of pandemic-era funding. Source: Health...
Date: May 28, 2024
Summarizes the findings of a recent study examining differences in physician associate (PA) practice by rurality. Notes that PAs practicing in isolated settings were the most likely to work in multiple clinical positions and offer services via telehealth. Source: Clinical Advisor.
...telehealth. Source: Clinical Advisor. --- View more Study Reveals Practice Differences Between PAs in Urban, Rural...
Date: May 29, 2024
Explores a variety of initiatives and policies working to improve cardiac health in rural Kentucky, including a hospital network working to improve access to cardiac care through telehealth and assistance with physician recruitment. Also highlights a program that allows hospitals to achieve various certifications based on the quality of heart-related care. Source: American Heart Association.
...telehealth and assistance with physician recruitment. Also highlights a program that allows hospitals to achieve...
Date: May 28, 2024
The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Rural Utilities Service (RUS) will hold virtual listening sessions to obtain feedback from stakeholders and other interested parties about the Distance Learning and Telemedicine (DLT) program. The purpose of the Distance Learning and Telemedicine (DLT) program grant program is to encourage and improve telemedicine services and distance learning services in rural areas through the use of telecommunications, computer networks, and related advanced technologies by students, teachers, medical professionals, and rural residents. Listening sessions will be held on June 11, 2024, and June 18, 2024, from 1:30 – 3:00 p.m. Eastern each day. Registration is required. Source: Federal Register.
...from 1:30 – 3:00 p.m. Eastern each day. Registration is required. Tagged as Access · Funding · Policy · Telehealth...
Date: May 23, 2024
Highlights a college class project that developed a method for sharing health data through a Low Power Wide Area Network (LPWAN), a form of low-frequency radio that could allow remote monitoring for patients in areas without cellular or broadband access. Discusses implications for rural patients, the need for patient privacy, and the value of students working with community partners to innovate solutions to real-world problems. Source: Cornell Chronicle.
...engagement and volunteerism · Networking and collaboration · Patient privacy · Technology for health and human services · Telehealth...
Date: Jun 23, 2024
Highlights the impacts of a tele-ICU program connecting patients and providers at Whitfield Regional Hospital in rural west Alabama to providers at the University of Alabama at Birmingham. Describes how the program has reduced the need to transport patients out of the community for care, which can strain rural families and complicate follow-up care. Source: AL.com.
...complicate follow-up care. Tagged as Access · Hospitals · Networking and collaboration · Specialty care · Telehealth · Alabama...
Date: May 24, 2024
Notice of direct final rule from the Department of Defense Assistant Secretary of Defense for Health Affairs (ASD(HA)) removing certain temporary regulation changes put in place in response to the COVID-19 pandemic that were automatically terminated by the end of the President's national emergency and the associated Health and Human Services (HHS) Public Health Emergency (PHE). Temporary provisions being removed by this rule include a waiver of the requirement for a three-day prior hospital stay before admission to a skilled nursing facility; waiver of certain acute care hospital requirements for temporary hospitals and freestanding ambulatory surgery centers; a waiver of certain interstate and international licensing requirements for individual professional providers; and more. If adverse comments are received, DOD will withdraw this rule and issue a proposed rule. Otherwise, this rule is effective on August 2, 2024. Source: Federal Register.
...Healthcare facilities · Hospitals · Legislation and regulations · Long-term care · Reimbursement and payment models · Telehealth · Veterans...
Date: Apr 30, 2024
Notice from the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) seeking comments on proposed revisions to forms related to the Universal Service Fund's Rural Health Care Program. Proposed revisions will extend some of the existing information collection requirements for the Healthcare Connect Fund and Telecom Programs, revise some of the information collection requirements for the Healthcare Connect Fund and Telecom Programs as a result of the 2023 Third Report and Order, and add a new information collection requirement for the Healthcare Connect Fund and Telecom Programs as a result of the 2023 Third Report and Order. Comments are due by July 1, 2024. Source: Federal Register.
...Comments are due by July 1, 2024. Tagged as Broadband · Funding · Healthcare facilities · Policy · Telehealth...
Date: May 28, 2024
PCORI invites organizations and individuals to submit comments on draft reports regarding the evidence base for audio-based care by July 11, 2024. The three draft reports cover audio-based care for diabetes, mental health, and other chronic conditions, with implications for rural populations. Source: Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI).
...conditions, with implications for rural populations. Tagged as Diabetes · Health conditions · Mental health conditions · Telehealth...