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Date: Feb 2022
Summarizes 3 presentations and a panel discussion from a virtual public workshop held on September 23, 2021, by the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine's Roundtable on Health Literacy, covering health-literate telehealth services. Discusses challenges and potential for health-literate telehealth, access, and resources available through the HRSA Office for the Advancement of Telehealth (OAT).
...telehealth services. Discusses challenges and potential for health-literate telehealth, access, and resources available through...
Date: Jul 2017
Highlights case examples of telehealth use in hospitals and health systems. Provides an overview and information on impacts, lessons learned, and future goals segments. Includes rural specific programs such as Intermountain Healthcare in Utah and Avera ePharmacy in South Dakota.
...Telehealth: Delivering the Right Care, at the Right Place, at the Right Time --- Highlights case...
Date: Apr 2020
Profiles how a Critical Access Hospital in Minnesota implemented a telehealth network in preparation for COVID-19. Offers lessons learned for other healthcare providers looking to implement virtual healthcare models.
...Telehealth Services for Rural Hospitals Fighting COVID-19 --- Profiles how a Critical Access Hospital in Minnesota...
Date: Aug 2019
Provides a report and order regarding plans to reform the Rural Health Care Program and promote telehealth, including targeting funding to rural areas. Discusses plans to improve the Telecom Program's efficiency, transparency, and predictability; criteria for prioritizing rural areas for funding; how to increase rural participation in Healthcare Connect Fund Program Consortia and the effectiveness of competitive billing; and how to improve RHC Program administration, the application process, and program oversight. Includes the final rules governing the program and maps showing the rural area tiers for the program.
...Telehealth in Rural America: Report and Order --- Provides a report and order regarding plans to reform...
Date: Feb 2025
Examines the extent to which Medicare beneficiaries with breast, colon, lung, or pancreatic cancer travel out of state to receive cancer services between January 1, 2017, and December 31, 2020. Compares cross-state travel by cancer site, service type, and patient rurality. Describes the potential implications of these findings for telehealth policies and reciprocity.
...telehealth policies and reciprocity. --- Cross-State Travel for Cancer Care and Implications for Telehealth Reciprocity...
Date: Mar 2020
Text of the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security (CARES) Act (P.L. 116-136). Outlines telehealth flexibilities to support providers and enhance access to care during the COVID-19 Public Health Emergency. Among other things, the CARES Act allows Rural Health Clinics (RHCs) and Federally Qualified Health Centers (FQHCs) to serve as distant sites to provide telehealth services to patients in their homes during the public health emergency (PHE); establishes the Paycheck Protection Program (PPP); extends the ability to order home health services to physician assistants, nurse practitioners, and certified nurse specialists; and provides additional funding to the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to enable the provision of telehealth services.
...telehealth flexibilities to support providers and enhance access to care during the COVID-19 Public...
Date: Nov 2023
Presents results from a survey on barriers, facilitators, and benefits of telehealth use for early integrated palliative care (EIPC). Survey participants were 48 clinicians providing palliative care services to patients with advanced lung cancer. Discusses clinician attitudes, logistical and organizational influences, and patient characteristics affecting access. Highlights barriers experienced by rural patients.
...Telehealth --- Presents results from a survey on barriers, facilitators, and benefits of telehealth use for early...
Date: Mar 2017
Examines Avera Health, an integrated delivery system based in Sioux Falls, South Dakota, to highlight how telehealth can be used to improve access in rural areas. Avera offers "eEmergency" telehealth services to more than 130 rural hospitals and "ePharmacy" services to roughly 75 rural hospitals, and other telehealth services. Discusses Avera's expansion into other areas where provider recruitment may be difficult, including prisons, schools, and long-term care facilities.
...telehealth can be used to improve access in rural areas. Avera offers "eEmergency" telehealth services...
Date: Sep 2018
Describes the implementation and accessibility of a virtual state healthcare program offering specialized care and public health services to rural communities through telehealth technology.
...telehealth technology. --- Pioneering Telehealth in Mississippi: Lessons for Facilities Leaders Describes the implementation and accessibility...
Date: Dec 2021
Report examining telehealth visits by Medicare beneficiaries in 2020 that compares urban and rural residence and breaks down data by visit location, visit specialty, and by state, with comparisons to 2019 data. Data drawn from Medicare FFS Part B outpatient and carrier claims submitted between January and December 2020 and the same period in 2019.
...Telehealth in 2020: Trends by Beneficiary Characteristics and Location --- Report examining telehealth visits by Medicare...