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Date: 2016
Describes health disparities between Wisconsin Native Americans and their White peers, with discussion of how new Medicaid policies could result in increased access to health services, improved care coordination for tribal health patients, and additional support for Indian Health Service providers. Features statistics including infant mortality rates, age-adjusted mortality rate, diabetes and cancer age-adjusted mortality rates, suicide rates, and average age of death.
...cancer age-adjusted mortality rates, suicide rates, and average age of death. --- Closing Gaps in Native...
Reviewed: Apr 15, 2025
Provides free non-emergency air travel for people of all ages with serious medical issues or other compelling needs.
...Cancer Initiative for the help they provide to cancer patients. One of the biggest challenges...
Date: 2020
Summary of presentations and discussions held April 11, 2019 in Washington, D.C. by the Roundtable on Health Literacy of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. Topics include challenges for diverse populations' participation in clinical trials, best practices, and health literacy strategies for effective communication with participants. Chapter 4 includes a description of clinical trials during which researchers conducted health literacy interventions in cancer screenings in mainly rural areas.
...cancer screenings in mainly rural areas. --- Health Literacy in Clinical Research: Practice and Impact: Proceedings...
Date: Sep 2023
Chart depicting mortality rates in Oklahoma for adults between 25 and 64. Compares rates between metropolitan and non-metropolitan tiers, all of Oklahoma, and the national rate for all causes of mortality, multiple chronic illnesses, cancer, stroke, suicide, opioids, and accidents. Click the full screen icon in the chart viewer to see the entire chart.
...cancer, stroke, suicide, opioids, and accidents. Click the full screen icon in the chart viewer...
Date: Apr 2025
Transcript from the Medicare Payment Advisory Commission's (MedPAC) April 2025 meeting. Covers physician fee schedule updates and improving the accuracy of relative payment rates; structural differences between the stand-alone prescription drug plan (PDP) and Medicare Advantage–Prescription Drug plan (MA–PD) markets; the utilization and delivery of Medicare Advantage supplemental benefits; the effect of Medicare Advantage on rural hospitals; paying for software technologies in Medicare; access to hospice and certain services under the hospice benefit for beneficiaries with end-stage renal disease and beneficiaries with cancer; and regulations, star ratings, and fee-for-service Medicare policies aimed at improving nursing home quality.
...cancer; and regulations, star ratings, and fee-for-service Medicare policies aimed at improving nursing...
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.
...cancer cell, and it would be able to see that cancer cell and give you a probability...
Reviewed: Aug 15, 2024
Using Community Health Workers, an Idaho consortium leveraged grant-funding to bring health and wellness programs, disease screening, and health education to frontier residents.
...cancer deaths, and chronic diseases such as diabetes, hypertension, and obesity. With Federal Office of Rural...
Date: Nov 2024
Provides an overview of tribal epidemiology centers (TECs), focusing on their impact on the availability and quality of public health surveillance data for American Indians and Alaskan Natives. Discusses challenges with collecting data for this population and strategies TECs are using to address these issues. Offers examples of public health best practices from TECs related to cancer, behavioral health, substance use, infectious diseases, and more.
...cancer, behavioral health, substance use, infectious diseases, and more. --- Tribal Epidemiology Centers: Strengthening American Indian...
Date: Jan 24, 2018
Benjamin Anderson, CEO of a 25-bed CAH in Kansas, discloses his relational style of healthcare leadership and his success attracting committed medical providers and engaging the area's growing refugee population. - The Rural Monitor
...Cancer Center in Dallas, Texas. That seemed like a natural introduction into healthcare leadership. Through...
Date: Nov 2000
Study based on 1997 and 1999 data of the utilization of specific preventive healthcare services by rural women and men. Assesses the impact of rural residence, the availability of health care providers and technology, demographic factors, and health insurance status on the likelihood of obtaining the following preventive health care services: blood pressure screening, cholesterol screening, colon cancer screening, Pap smears, mammograms, flu shots, and pneumonia vaccinations.
...cancer screening, Pap smears, mammograms, flu shots, and pneumonia vaccinations. --- The Influence of Rural Residence...