Rural Health news and information

The Verizon Foundation, Swinfen Charitable Trust and the University of Virginia Health System recently announced the expansion of an innovative telemedicine program that connects hospitals in 68 developing countries with more than 550 medical specialists around the world, including 68 at the...
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The Health Resources and Services Administration had no takers on its first call for comments on its rural health IT support program, so it reiterated that call, inquiring whether it is asking the right questions of program participants.
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The complex machinery of healthcare is being reimagined everywhere in the nation through the combined prism of new regulations and shifting economics, even here on the continent’s frosted fringe.
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The Fargo, N.D.-based Fargo Veterans Affairs Medical Center and its outreach clinics are expanding the use of telemedicine to provide healthcare to more vets in rural areas.
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The GAO reported that 91% of hospitals paid by Medicare receive some dispensation or add-on to the program's standard payment system.
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Deano Thornton, CEO of Winn Community Health Center, a federally qualified healthcare center in the small city of Winnfield, La., knew the clinic would need the most up-to-date tools for reaching out to his underserved community and coordinating with the other community health clinics across the...
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Physician retention has been just as much an issue as getting physicians to make an initial commitment to rural life.
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The struggle to attract and keep rural physicians has grown so intense that many communities are now starting as early as early as their second year of residency to recruit new physicians. They often send potential recruits dozens of glossy brochures advertising a town's nature trails, festivals...
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Some small, rural healthcare organizations have become health information technology front-runners and their leaders techno mavens, despite the digital divide that separates the larger, urban health IT have-nows from the smaller, rural IT have-not-yets.
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Some small, rural healthcare organizations have become health information technology front-runners and their leaders techno mavens, despite the digital divide that separates the larger, urban health IT have-nows from the smaller, rural IT have-not-yets.
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