Rural Health news and information

A premature baby born at high altitude faces challenges uncommon among newborns in Denver that often can't be treated by rural physicians. But expanded technology is helping beam the expertise of neonatal specialists in the city into critical-care situations at 33 remote hospitals in Colorado,...
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A dozen providers in a low-income part of the country will receive $5.4 million in federal funding to address a number of chronic conditions that affect residents there at a more frequent rate compared with the rest of the country.
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Aides to Gov. Rick Perry say he has ordered a "deep and comprehensive look" at healthcare facilities owned by a Dallas-area physician whose rural hospitals have violated safety regulations without drawing state scrutiny.
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Despite concerns that some providers are lagging in the adoption of EHRs, federal officials plan to stay on schedule in requiring hospitals to meet Stage 2 meaningful-use requirements.
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The digital divide is still there among rural providers but it appears to be closing, according to a report by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and new research it references.
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California lawmakers improperly stopped funding certain medical services that rural and other specialized health clinics provided to low-income residents under the state's Medicaid program, a federal appeals court ruled Friday.
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Building on its success from the past 10 years, Project ECHO has established a national institute to replicate its model of using “telementoring” to improve the expertise of primary-care clinicians so they can better treat patients with chronic...
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When Jeff Alling, a family physician, moved to Wise County more than 20 years ago, he was one of only two doctors in the rural North Texas community qualified to deliver babies. Since then, he has delivered more than 2,000. But Dr. Alling no longer has a place to deliver babies in the county.
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Getting face time with the family doctor could soon become even harder.
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Healthcare advocates in Indiana are looking at an improved training system for physicians and an expanded concept of what it means to see a doctor to help serve what's expected to be a crush of new patients seeking care starting next year.
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