Research Reports

Telehealth, which is the use of electronic information and telecommunications technologies to support long-distance clinical health care, patient and professional health-related education, and public health and health administration, has been proposed as a possible solution to meeting these challenges. This research, conducted in 2012 and 2013, set out to describe how and to what extend telehealth is being implemented in rural Pennsylvania.

This research determined the scope and magnitude of home and community-based care alternatives to nursing homes currently available in rural Pennsylvania and the current need for rural home and community-based care alternatives to nursing homes among specific constituent groups.