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521. Realizing the Benefits of Rural Broadband: Challenges and Solutions
Date: Jul 2018

Presents the U.S. House of Representatives Energy and Commerce Committee hearing on the benefits, challenges, and solutions to rural broadband issues. Features testimony from an Associate Administrator and Chief Nursing Officer at Wallowa Memorial Hospital, a 25-bed Critical Access Hospital (CAH) in Enterprise, Oregon, on the role broadband plays in healthcare access via telehealth to rural and frontier areas.

...telehealth to rural and frontier areas. --- View more Realizing the Benefits of Rural Broadband: Challenges...

522. COVID-19 Health Care Flexibilities: Perspectives, Experiences, and Lessons Learned
Date: May 2021

Recording of a May 19, 2021, U.S. Senate Committee on Finance hearing on healthcare flexibilities implemented in response to the COVID-19 pandemic, with a focus on telehealth. Discusses lessons learned and considerations for the extension of these flexibilities beyond the pandemic.

...telehealth. Discusses lessons learned and considerations for the extension of these flexibilities beyond the pandemic...

523. Mental Health Care in the United States: The Case for Federal Action
Date: Mar 2022

Bipartisan report summarizing findings from three Senate Finance Committee hearings and a request for information regarding challenges in the mental healthcare system. Describes the prevalence of behavioral health conditions in the United States, the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, and spending on behavioral health. Outlines key challenges across five cross-cutting areas: the behavioral health workforce; children, adolescents, and young adults; access to care, integration, and care coordination; mental health and substance use disorder (SUD) parity; and telehealth. Includes information on challenges facing rural and underserved communities.

...telehealth. Includes information on challenges facing rural and underserved communities. --- View more Mental Health Care...

524. The Use of and Experiences With Telelactation Among Rural Breastfeeding Mothers: Secondary Analysis of a Randomized Controlled Trial
Date: Sep 2019

Study exploring a telehealth video-based lactation service offered to rural Pennsylvania mothers through a Critical Access Hospital. Discusses data on study participation, number of telelactation video calls per participant, nature of the participants' concerns or questions, breastfeeding experience, and infant age. Describes challenges of providing lactation support in rural areas and presents telelactation services as a potential solution.

...telehealth video-based lactation service offered to rural Pennsylvania mothers through a Critical Access Hospital...

525. Kansas Primary Care Needs Assessment
Date: 2021

Reports the results of a statewide needs assessment conducted in 2021 that focuses on the primary care needs of rural and underserved populations in Kansas. Includes discussion on provider shortages, access issues related to quality preventive and primary care services, telehealth services, and more. Shares maps providing county-level data on Primary Care, Dental, and Mental Health Professional Shortage Areas (HPSAs).

...telehealth services, and more. Shares maps providing county-level data on Primary Care, Dental, and Mental...

526. Hepatitis C Within a Single Health System: Progression Along the Cascade to Cure Is Higher for Those With Substance Misuse When Linked to a Clinic With Embedded Support Services
Date: Sep 2018

Recognizes the barriers to treatment of hepatitis C virus (HCV) by identifying patient and HCV clinic characteristics associated with the achievement of sustained virologic response (SVR) in a large medical center serving a rural population. Characteristics documented included proximity to the health center, household income and assets, availability of private insurance, medical comorbidities, and patients with recorded substance misuse. Suggests models for expanding access to treatment in rural areas through increased prescribing by primary care providers and through telehealth.

...telehealth. --- View more Hepatitis C Within a Single Health System: Progression Along the Cascade to Cure...

527. Oral Health Value-Based Care - The Federally Qualified Health Center (FQHC) Story
Date: Aug 2020

Explores the role Federally Qualified Health Centers (FQHCs) play in providing oral healthcare through integration and how FQHCs used technology and flexible workforce modeling to provide care during the COVID-19 pandemic. Analyzes data from the IBM Watson MarketScan Multi-State Database, the Health Resources and Services Administration Uniform Data System, and a survey of participants of the safety net technical assistance program to evaluate health outcomes and service provision of FQHC patients versus non-FQHC patients. Discusses how value-based payment models can effect health outcomes and how FQHCs used telehealth to reach rural and underserved populations during the pandemic.

...telehealth to reach rural and underserved populations during the pandemic. --- View more Oral Health Value...

528. Experiences with and Outcomes of Oral Health Care - Perspectives from Nationally Representative Data
Date: Mar 2024

Report discusses the outcomes and experiences with oral healthcare from patients across the United States surveyed in January - February 2023. Details patients experience with access to care, attitudes about co-location of oral healthcare and other types of care, value-based care, telehealth usage, and discrimination in healthcare, among other topics. Breaks down demographic data of survey participants by age, gender, race/ethnicity, and urbanicity, among other measures.

...telehealth usage, and discrimination in healthcare, among other topics. Breaks down demographic data of survey...

529. The Health and Social Impacts of the Maui Wildfires: Post-Disaster Care from a Sociocultural Lens
Date: Mar 2024

Highlights the impact of a wildfire event on existing health and social service disparities in Maui, Hawaii. Discusses housing, employment, finances, mental health, suicide risk, culture, social isolation, rurality, and service limitations. Notes opportunities and challenges for addressing these impacts using telehealth and outside assistance.

...telehealth and outside assistance. --- View more The Health and Social Impacts of the Maui Wildfires...

530. Role of Rural Libraries in Promoting Digital Health Literacy
Date: Mar 2023

Webinar highlighting a rural library's efforts to increase digital health literacy and healthcare access in rural Texas. Discusses telehealth, broadband access inequities and digital literacy, transportation issues, aging in place, community health workers working in libraries, emergency response, circulating medical equipment, and summer meals for students. Transcript available in the video description.

...telehealth, broadband access inequities and digital literacy, transportation issues, aging in place, community health workers...