HRSA announced nearly $75 million to support health care services in rural America. Funding will launch new opioid treatment and recovery services in rural communities, strengthen maternal health care in the South, and help rural hospitals stay open.
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Takeaways on the Future of AI in Community Healthcare By Wes Cronkite & Helena Anderson – TRAIN held its first meeting and aims to foster responsible and safe AI development frameworks to ensure all communities can access and benefit from relevant, accessible, affordable AI technology.
By Anish Pantakar – The healthcare industry is experiencing transformative changes, with cloud-based technologies leading the charge, particularly AI and informatics software. These innovations, however, have often been viewed as exclusive to urban, well-funded hospitals, leaving rural healthcare centers behind.
The USDA Rural Development Under Secretary Xochitl Torres Small announced that USDA is awarding $74 million in grants to improve health care facilities in rural towns across the Nation. These grants will help 143 rural health care organizations expand critical services for 3 million people in 37 states, Guam and Puerto Rico.
New On Demand Healthcare Upside/Down: With guest Angela Ammons, CEO of Clinch Memorial Hospital. A registered nurse who went on to change the fortunes of a 25-bed critical access hospital, Angela talks about resilience in rural healthcare on this episode.
CMS awarded several states an initial $2 million to address disparities in health equity by improving access to quality health care in rural communities.
By Justin Williams – There is something of a diaspora going on in the world of medical monitoring. Instruments that used to be clustered into hospitals, clinics and doctors’ offices are starting to spread throughout the consumer world, and medical professionals are beginning to take notice.
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, through the Health Resources and Services Administration, awarded over $35 million to more than 50 rural organizations across 33 states as part of a sustained federal effort to increase access to high quality care in rural communities.
By Shane Sullivan – If you’re a telemedicine advocate, you know it can transform rural healthcare. Virtual care is extending emergency services to South American villages unreachable by ambulance; it’s helping to stem the rising tide of communicable and chronic disease in Africa.