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HHS invests $8 million to address gaps in rural telehealth through the Telehealth Broadband Pilot Program The program will be implemented in four state community locations, including in Alaska, Michigan, Texas and West Virginia.
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The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, through the Health Resources and Services Administration, has awarded $8 million to fund the Telehealth Broadband Pilot program, which assesses the broadband capacity available to rural healthcare providers and patient communities to improve their access to telehealth.
Through the new program, $6.5 million was awarded to the National Telehealth Technology Assessment Resource Center (TTAC), based out of the Alaska Native Tribal Health Consortium. The TTAC works in the area of technology assessment and selecting appropriate technologies for a variety of telehealth services.
Significant disparities found in telehealth use, especially among older patients Inequities were found by race/ethnicity, socioeconomic status, age, and when someone used a language other than English.
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After COVID-19, one of the terms most people will remember best from 2020 is likely to be social distancing. While it most commonly applies to social gatherings with family and friends, it has impacted the way many receive medical care. Historically, the U.S. has been relatively slow to broadly adopt telehealth, largely emphasizing in-person visits.
But the coronavirus pandemic, especially in the spring of 2020, necessitated increased use of virtual or phone call visits, even prompting the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services to relax some of its regulations, primarily for video-based telehealth. These large-scale changes made virtual care exponentially more popular than it had been even at the start of the calendar year.