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2014
Telehealth in Rural Pennsylvania (2014)
January 14, 2014 | Health Care and Human Services
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.
Tags: telehealth , rural health care , public health
2013
Home and Community-Based Alternatives to Nursing Home Care (2013)
November 17, 2013 | Health Care and Human Services
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.
Tags: rural health care , home health care , community health care , nursing care
Introducing the Center's new journal, Rural Policy: The Research Bulletin of the Center for Rural Pennsylvania.