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Date: Aug 11, 2021
"Swing bed" is that oft-heard phrase describing not a physical hospital bed, but post-acute care for the rural patient who is well enough to leave the acute care hospital but not well enough to be safe at home. In this 2-part story, experts and hospital administrators review the swing bed program's historical implementation and provide stories and examples of the value this over 40-year-old healthcare delivery and reimbursement model brings to patients, to the hospitals providing their care, and ultimately to rural communities. - The Rural Monitor
...guidelines for swing beds in Critical Access Hospitals (CAHs), "a 'swing-bed' is a change...
Date: Feb 2, 2022
The priority for rural population health is access, including access to health information needed to make personal health decisions. Two of the nation's health literacy experts join a federal agency official to review current rural challenges of accessing health information that is clear and usable. Along with an exploration of digital health literacy, recently expanded definitions of health literacy are discussed. - The Rural Monitor
...Guidelines for Effective Writing Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) Health Literacy Florida Rural Health...
Date: Mar 9, 2022
Health literacy experts share that as healthcare delivery moves from bedside to webside, new opportunities for health literacy education arise. Emphasizing the need to swap medical jargon for plain language, educators outlined best practices for teaching health literacy principles to healthcare profession trainees. - The Rural Monitor
...guidelines," she said. Darling also shared that both resident and medical student telehealth electives are now available...
Date: Apr 19, 2023
Three rural healthcare experts discuss how rural hospital high-value networks can create economies of scale and value-based care capacity in order to enter into value-based payment contracts. - The Rural Monitor
...guideline use Clinical variation reduction Quality improvement Care coordination Data sharing and analysis Clinician accountability...
Date: May 3, 2017
From over-the-counter medication use, to decisions about personal or family disease treatments, health literacy impacts the most everyday of health decisions. But, distance and Internet connectivity challenges make it difficult for rural residents to get health information. To navigate health information gaps, school nurses, newspapers, public libraries, churches, public health departments, and hub-and-spoke academic institutions are working in creative ways. - The Rural Monitor
...guidelines about word choice and plain language are now second nature to patient care at their...
Date: Mar 21, 2018
An important aspect of the opioid crisis is opioid use disorder. This in-depth story focuses on the science behind the disorder and the use of an evidence-based treatment: MAT, or medication-assisted treatment. - The Rural Monitor
...guidelines, acknowledge that MAT benefits exceed drug diversion risks. Education regarding drug diversion is part...
Date: Oct 26, 2022
After a 1965 public law created the Medicare and Medicaid programs, many rural residents insured by these government health programs were unable to access care. This challenge was remedied by another public law: the Rural Health Clinic Services Act of 1977. Using a historical framework, rural health policy experts, researchers, and clinicians reviewed the Act's impact on outpatient healthcare delivery in rural America. - The Rural Monitor
...guidelines prevented certified clinics from fully recovering incurred and otherwise allowable costs. "Red Tape": Costly...
Date: Aug 6, 2024
The August 2024 episode of RHIhub's podcast features an interview with Jordan Berg, Principal Investigator for the National Telehealth Technology Assessment Resource Center. Focuses on applications of AI in healthcare, what AI is and isn't good at, and how patient information in an AI system is safeguarded.
...guidelines that you would for any kind of offsite cloud storage which includes a business...
Date: Oct 4, 2022
The October 2022 episode of RHIhub's podcast features Julie Wood, MD, senior vice president of research, science and health of the public at the American Academy of Family Physicians, and Zita Magloire, MD, a practicing family physician in Cairo, Georgia, in a discussion about the integral part that family physicians play in rural maternal care.
...guidelines on using telehealth for certain prenatal visits to limit the exposure to patients, and medical...
Date: Aug 31, 2022
A skilled nursing facility in New Hampshire and national experts share the benefits telehealth services can bring to the residents and staff of rural long-term care facilities as well as the challenges some facilities face in providing these services. - The Rural Monitor
...guidelines, toolkits, and best practices for using telehealth with older adults. Archbald-Pannone said it's important...