Telehealth & Covid-19
Preparing for RHTP RFPs:
What Rural Health Leaders can do NOW
The Rural Health Transformation Program has set a remarkable amount of activity into motion — 50 state applications submitted, awards issued, revised budgets under review, and RFPs at the state level are beginning to [...]
When Telehealth Gear Gathers Dust:
Why Equipment Funding Isn’t Enough
This article is based on a webinar presented by Jen Donathan, Shari Snyder, Ryan Baker, and Christian Milaster for Generation West Virginia’s Broadband Technical Assistance Webinar Series. There is a pattern we have seen [...]
Consumer-Facing Digital Health Is Coming:
Are States and Rural Providers Ready?
When CMS designed the Rural Health Transformation Program, it made a deliberate bet: consumer-facing digital health technology — symptom checkers, remote monitoring devices, AI chatbots, chronic disease apps, digital navigation tools — could meaningfully address [...]
Getting Telehealth Right Means Getting the Basics Right
Occasionally, Telehealth Tuesday readers and colleagues send me reports for comment. A few weeks ago, Hannah Jelliman from the UK-based telehealth platform Whereby shared their latest market research. Here’s my take on what it gets right — and what it [...]
18 Proven Telehealth Solutions Improving Access to Behavioral Health Care
Behavioral health remains one of the most pressing and underserved areas in healthcare — especially in rural and low-resource settings. As part of the broader effort to support rural innovation under CMS’s Rural Health Transformation (RHT) Program, this five-part [...]
9 Proven Telehealth Solutions Improving Chronic Disease Management
Chronic disease is the leading cause of death, disability, and healthcare spending in the U.S. — and it disproportionately impacts rural communities. Yet rural patients with diabetes, hypertension, COPD, and heart failure often face delayed treatment, missed follow-ups, and limited [...]
16 Proven Telehealth Solutions Improving Access to Rural Primary Care
Primary care is the foundation of a high-functioning healthcare system, but in rural America, it is also one of the most fragile. Many communities lack enough clinicians so patients often have to travel long distances even for basic services, [...]
11 Proven Telehealth Solutions Improving Access to Emergency Care
This is the second article in a multi-part series spotlighting proven telehealth-enabled solutions that address the goals outlined in CMS's Rural Health Transformation Program. Each installment will focus on a different area of care — continuing here with emergency [...]
13 Proven Telehealth Solutions Improving Access to Hospital Care
This is the first article in a multi-part series spotlighting proven telehealth-enabled solutions that address the goals outlined in CMS's Rural Health Transformation Program. Each installment will focus on a different area of care — starting here with inpatient care [...]