Report: Telehealth Uptake Is Lagging in Rural Areas
An Elevance Health Public Policy Institute study found rural patients used telehealth less than non-rural patients across all chronic conditions and insurance types.
For Millions in Rural America, Medicine Is Still Far Away
Rural Health Transformation Program funding gives states broad flexibility and may help address longstanding access gaps.
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Inside an Automated Healthcare Practice: Redesigning Care Around People, Not Paperwork
By reducing administrative burden and redesigning workflows around human needs, it creates space for what matters most: connection between clinicians and patients.
Washington’s Medical Debt Push Risks Missing the Bigger Healthcare Crisis
This is not an abstract discussion. It is about sustaining the organizations, employees, and communities that depend on us. If we fail to account for how these policies interact in the real world, we risk weakening the very system we are trying to improve.
Healthcare Access Depends on Infrastructure: Why Rural Communities Can’t Afford Fragmentation
Reframing transportation as infrastructure, not a support service, means holding it to the same standard as any other component of care delivery. That requires these three things.
Reliable Transportation Isn’t a Luxury — It’s an Important Part of Cancer Care
Insecurity about transportation can lead to missed appointments and delayed care, and obstacles are more common for cancer patients than for the general population.
Building the Backbone of Rural Health: Meeting the Reality on the Ground
Rural healthcare has always run on ingenuity, resilience, and community trust. What has too often been missing is the infrastructure strong enough to match that and sustain it at scale. That is what makes this moment different.
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The Healthcare Payments Industry Faces a Perception Challenge
Healthcare payments are no longer about transactions. It’s about controlling the revenue cycle. And increasingly, that control is not sitting with ISOs.
How States Can Succeed Under the Rural Health Transformation Program
Is $50 billion over five years enough to end the rural healthcare crisis or even offset the federal spending cuts? No – but it’s what states have to work with. And the pressure is on them to maximize the impact of their RHTP grants. Here’s how they can do it.
Rural Healthcare Transformation Has to Focus on the Real World, Not Techno-Fantasies
Rural health organizations cannot afford to get dazzled by AI demo candy. There is no such thing as “FixHealthcareGPT,” and investing in the wrong technology for the future isn’t going to do anything to improve patient outcomes today.
How A Small Rural Hospital Is Using AI to Catch Heart Disease Sooner
At Wayne General Hospital in rural Mississippi, clinicians are using Eko Health’s AI-powered digital stethoscope to detect heart conditions earlier in patients with limited access to specialists.
Virtual Specialty Care Has Time. Will We Use It Wisely?
The specialty access and capacity crisis demands more than incremental fixes. It requires expanding virtual access and fundamentally rethinking how specialty care can be delivered.
Where Will AI Deployment Benefit Payers the Most?
We are taking a look at how health insurers are using AI, defining success, and managing cybersecurity risks. Give us your opinions by completing our brief, anonymous survey.
Imaging Interoperability Offers a Lifeline to Rural Hospitals and the Patients Depending on Them
Typically, rural hospitals operate as “islands,” where a patient might receive an initial scan at a community health facility, see a specialist at a regional medical center, and return home for follow-up care. In this scenario, it’s common for their medical images to become trapped in three different systems.
A Once in a Generation Opportunity to Reimagine Rural Health
Leaders must resist the urge to replicate urban models that do not translate well to rural contexts. Instead, they should design solutions that are built for rural communities, grounded in local insight and enabled by scalable capabilities.
The U.S. Keeps Failing the March of Dimes Report Card. Here’s One Gap We Can Close Right Now
Now is the time to build a system where every pregnant person, regardless of zip code, ethnicity, or insurance status, can access the level of care their pregnancy demands.
The Rural Care Crisis Is an Economic Issue, Not Just a Public Health One
As hundreds of rural hospitals face the risk of closure, healthcare leaders warn that the fallout extends far beyond patient outcomes. During a panel at ViVE in Los Angeles, healthcare leaders outlined how access to care underpins the economic stability of rural America.
Hospital-at-Home Bodes Well for Rural Patients, Research Shows
New research from Mass General Brigham demonstrates that hospital-at-home care can safely deliver comparable outcomes for rural patients — with significant cost savings when patients are transferred home early in their hospital stay.