Exploring Health
JANUARY 15, 2025
Teaching Medical Students to Use Telehealth Can Reduce Rural Health Inequities Telehealth use has skyrocketed since the COVID-19 pandemic. I often wonder if I could have had an answer much earlier to all the abnormalities my body was facing if I had access to Telehealth growing up in my rural hometown.
The Health Care Blog
DECEMBER 1, 2022
And, these are just to name a few… Right now, the pandemic’s public health emergency is still in effect until mid-January, and, though it is expected to be renewed, the renewal will only get us into the second quarter of 2023.
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NC Health News
APRIL 11, 2025
By Jennifer Fernandez In a small room at Hillcrest Elementary School in Burlington, students can now meet with a doctor during the school day virtually. The school joins a growing network across North Carolina where students dont have to leave school to be seen for physical or behavioral health needs.
The Health Care Blog
AUGUST 19, 2022
Our rural health care system has suffered badly during the COVID-19 pandemic. It entered the pandemic with severe structural weaknesses, including magnified health disparities and inequities, lower rates of vaccination in the general population, and high risk of rural hospital closures. Rural providers are under siege.
Association of Health Care Journalists
MARCH 31, 2025
Whats in the legislation now Historically, because of a law dating back to 1997, Medicare beneficiaries could only access telehealth and virtual care services if they met two criteria, Zebley said: They had to be in a rural area and had to receive those services inside a Medicare providers office. 31, Healthcare IT News reported.
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