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Digital Health Diabetes Education Improves Health of Rural Communities Across Arkansas

Edith Bennett — Fri, 27 Feb 2026 22:14:02 +0000

Delivering family-centered diabetes self-management education and support (DSMES) programs through digital health can significantly improve health outcomes for people with Type 2 diabetes, particularly those living in rural and underserved communities, according to researchers from the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) Institute for Community Health Innovation.

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Rural Health Access for Tennessee’s Future

Lizzie Casteel — Thu, 05 Feb 2026 20:17:34 +0000

Information on the State of Tennessee’s work to shape the future of healthcare for rural Tennesseans

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Take Health to Heart: Use of Telehealth to Advance Women’s Heart Health, Especially in the Most Vulnerable Patient Populations

Edith Bennett — Wed, 28 Jan 2026 20:27:13 +0000

This webinar is led by Rachel Bond, System Director, Women’s Heart Health at Dignity Health, Arizona. In the presentation, Dr. Bond discusses the current landscape of heart disease in women in the United States and outlines key strategies to improve women’s heart health. This webinar aims to help health care professionals identify disparities of heart disease for women, as well as the role of telehealth in improving limited access to care for women, especially women from marginalized groups.

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Opioid & Controlled Substances in Telehealth

Edith Bennett — Wed, 28 Jan 2026 20:10:10 +0000

This presentation is led by Dr. James Thompson, the co-founder and chief medical officer at Master Center for Addiction Medicine. During this presentation, he covers the past, present, and future landscape of opioid and controlled substances in the telehealth space. This presentation aims to help health care professionals who are treating patients with opioid and controlled substances in a telehealth setting.

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Incorporating AI in Digital Health

Edith Bennett — Wed, 28 Jan 2026 20:03:39 +0000

Artificial Intelligence (AI) has the potential to transform every part of our healthcare system, and telehealth is at the forefront of some of these innovations. UNC Health Chief Analytics Officer Rachini Moosavi discusses healthcare trends driving opportunities for AI, the intersection of telehealth and AI, and the evaluation of AI opportunities to maximize value in telehealth.

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TN Rural Health Dashboard

Lizzie Casteel — Thu, 23 Oct 2025 23:25:52 +0000

Since 1995, the mission of Rural Health Association of Tennessee (RHA)is to lead the way to a healthy Tennessee through partnerships, advocacy, education, and resources. Our 700+ members include rural hospitals and clinics, school health professionals, mental and behavioral health providers, and others who work to address health disparities in rural and other minority populations.

Improving access to care, especially primary care, is a foundational pillar to improving health outcomes in Tennessee. There are three main types of facilities that provide care to rural communities: Federally Qualified Health Centers (FQHCs), Rural Health Clinics (RHCs), and Critical Access/Acute Care Hospitals (CAHs).¹

This dashboard provides key data elements to better inform policy makers, administrators, funders, and others wishing to strengthen access to care in rural Tennessee.

Users are invited to explore, click on, and hover over different visual elements. To return to the original settings of a chart, simply click “ESC” or on the “Home” link in the menu.

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Opportunities to Alleviate the Health Care Workforce Crisis: Telehealth and Emerging Technologies

Edith Bennett — Thu, 24 Jul 2025 18:25:39 +0000

The U.S. health care system is facing a severe and worsening workforce crisis, characterized by a shortage of providers, geographic maldistribution of providers, and record levels of burnout. Telehealth is a promising solution to mitigate the workforce crisis. Telehealth modalities—in particular, virtual nursing, eConsults, and video visits—offer innovative ways to extend the current workforce, expand the geographic reach of providers, and maintain the existing workforce by reducing burnout and improving work-life balance. However, despite this potential, many telehealth programs are sub-scale due to limited coverage and reimbursement, insufficiently robust evidence, cultural barriers around adopting new technology, and other factors.

Even at full scale, telehealth alone will not meaningfully address the workforce crisis. Other emerging technologies, particularly artificial intelligence (AI), have the potential to significantly unlock workforce capacity. AI can assist, augment, and automate certain activities currently performed by clinical and administrative staff, thereby increasing efficiency and improving access. AI tools can streamline clinical documentation, enhance decision support, and automate routine administrative tasks, allowing providers to focus on patient care. AI tools can also be used to accelerate the adoption and impact of promising telehealth models by enabling significant gains in efficiency through automation.

This report was developed by Manatt Health and the National Telehealth Center of Excellence at Medical University of South Carolina (MUSC) as a part of a collaboration to understand and describe opportunities for telehealth to address the emerging health care workforce crisis. Manatt and MUSC conducted background research, interviewed 20 telehealth and workforce leaders, and convened these experts for an in-person expert roundtable in Washington, D.C., in February 2025. Participants represented a diverse array of health systems, provider associations, health technology companies, and workforce researchers. The findings and opportunities outlined in this report represent a combination of research and the input provided by participants. The views expressed here are solely those of Manatt Health and MUSC.

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Developing Telehealth Training Scenarios

Edith Bennett — Wed, 23 Jul 2025 18:11:02 +0000

A Step-By-Step Guide For Nursing

Creating telehealth training scenarios can be difficult, but this guidance provides you with tools to make the task easier.

https://www.pbtrc.org/telehealth-training/

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Proposed CY 2026 Physician Fee Schedule

Edith Bennett — Tue, 22 Jul 2025 20:16:22 +0000

Much of the telehealth community has been waiting to see what the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) will be proposing in the 2026 Physician Fee Schedule (PFS). The wait was over when on July 14, 2025, the unpublished version of the 2026 PFS was released (the official version was subsequently published in the Federal Register). For those who are unfamiliar, the PFS is the vehicle CMS uses to update, change or introduce new policies that will impact the Medicare program for the following year. Unless otherwise stated, the policies typically go into effect on the first of the new year.

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Telehealth & Remote Patient Monitoring

Edith Bennett — Thu, 26 Jun 2025 20:14:58 +0000

Learn requirements, distant site practitioners, and billing and payment for the originating site facility.

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