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391. The Task Force on Maternal Mental Health's Report to Congress
Date: 2024

A report from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services on maternal mental health including barriers to care, federal programs doing relevant work, identifying best practices, and offering suggestions to improve federal infrastructure. Topics discussed include substance use, mortality, social determinants of health, data gathering, community engagement, telehealth, screening, violence, policy, access to care, stigma, and more. Highlights programs across the country addressing maternal mental health issues including some in rural areas. Discusses rural throughout.

...telehealth, screening, violence, policy, access to care, stigma, and more. Highlights programs across the country...

392. Implementation Costs of Technology-Enhanced Transitional Palliative Care for Rural Caregivers
Date: Jan 2024

Examines the feasibility and sustainability of a family caregiver-focused transitional palliative care intervention that uses telehealth technologies. Presents results of a budget impact analysis of a randomized control trial, community-dwelling rural caregivers of hospitalized patients with a serious, life-limiting illness and receiving palliative care during hospitalization. Describes potential reimbursement mechanisms available to offset health system costs to providing transitional palliative care to support caregivers, including transitional care management and chronic care management service reimbursement.

...telehealth technologies. Presents results of a budget impact analysis of a randomized control trial, community...

393. Addressing Behavioral Health Workforce Needs in Kansas
Date: Dec 2022

Examines the behavioral health workforce in Kansas by age and rural versus urban geographic distribution. Includes data on population to provider ratios for psychiatrists and licensed special clinical social workers (LSCSWs). Discusses strategies to reduce behavioral workforce shortages such as the utilization of telehealth.

...telehealth. --- View more Addressing Behavioral Health Workforce Needs in Kansas Link View Resource Description Examines...

394. Report to Congress: Demonstration Project on Community Health Integration Models in Certain Rural Counties, Interim Report 2018
Date: Sep 2018

Provides an overview of and first year findings from the Frontier Community Health Integration Project Demonstration (FCHIP), which includes 10 Critical Access Hospitals (CAHs) in three states: North Dakota, Montana, and Nevada. The demonstration intends to increase the quality and coordination of care, with focuses on access to and payments for telehealth, ambulance services, and skilled nursing facility/nursing facility beds, as well as related regulatory challenges.

...telehealth, ambulance services, and skilled nursing facility/nursing facility beds, as well as related regulatory challenges...

395. Expanded Report to Congress: Non-Emergency Medical Transportation in Medicaid, 2018–2021
Date: Jul 2023

Examines the Medicaid analysis of non-emergency medical transportation (NEMT) using Transformed Medicaid Statistical Information System (T-MSIS) data from 2018-2021. Explores the number and percentage of Medicaid beneficiaries using NEMT, the average number of NEMT "ride days" per NEMT user per month enrolled in Medicaid, the types of medical services accessed when using NEMT, monthly trends in the use of NEMT versus telehealth services before and during the COVID-19 public health emergency (PHE), and the volume of NEMT services used by type of NEMT delivery model. Offers recommendations for states and local stakeholders regarding Medicaid coverage of NEMT. Presents data by state and by beneficiary characteristics, including Medicaid eligibility category, health conditions, and urban-rural location.

...telehealth services before and during the COVID-19 public health emergency (PHE), and the volume...

396. Development and Implementation of a Telenephrology Dashboard for Active Surveillance of Kidney Disease: A Quality Improvement Project
Date: Oct 2020

Explores a study on the use of telehealth for early detection and intervention in cases of kidney disease among rural veterans. Evaluates a telenephrology consultation program run by the VA Health Care System at a number of locations in rural Iowa.

...telehealth for early detection and intervention in cases of kidney disease among rural veterans. Evaluates...

397. Rural Maryland Council Health Care Committee Executive Summary, 2015-2016
Date: Dec 2016

Report on the work of the Rural Maryland Health Care Committee for 2015-2016. Includes meeting agendas and minutes, presentation slides, discussion of white papers, correspondence, and focused topics such as telehealth and telepsychiatry. The focus of the committee during this biennium was mental and behavioral health in school age children.

...telehealth and telepsychiatry. The focus of the committee during this biennium was mental and behavioral...

398. Report to Congress: E-health and Telemedicine
Date: Aug 2016

Reports the state of e-health and telemedicine after the implementation of the Affordable Care Act (ACA). Includes current policy challenges, discussion of federal level telehealth activity, and a legislative proposal for FY17.

...telehealth activity, and a legislative proposal for FY17. --- View more Report to Congress: E-health...

399. Integrating Family and Friend Support, Information Technology, and Diabetes Education in Community-Centric Diabetes Self-Management
Date: Feb 2021

Study examining the impacts of community support on diabetes self-management in a rural island community in Hawaii based on a pilot program with 7 participants over a 9 month period. Describes the challenges of implementing diabetes self-management education programs in rural areas, access to dietitians and endocrinologists, and the potential for telehealth and health information technology to facilitate diabetes self-management.

...telehealth and health information technology to facilitate diabetes self-management. --- View more Integrating Family and Friend...

400. Mental Health System Development in Rural and Remote Areas during COVID-19
Date: Sep 2021

Report highlights the barriers faced by rural, remote, and tribal communities to accessing mental healthcare during the COVID-19 pandemic. Details rates of mental health treatment over the past year and compares rural and urban communities. Discusses factors affecting access in rural areas such as workforce shortages, lack of telehealth services, and lack of culturally competent care for American Indian and Alaska Native populations, among others.

...telehealth services, and lack of culturally competent care for American Indian and Alaska Native populations...