Tag: Telehealth
Brown study finds telehealth access alone isn’t enough to improve rural access to...
PROVIDENCE – An increase in telehealth availability hasn’t translated to improved access to mental health services in rural communities, a new study by Brown University researchers...
Five Questions With: Danielle Simmons
April 11-17 is recognized as Black Maternal Health Week. Danielle Simmons, a family nurse practitioner in the Hypertension Equity Program at Women & Infants...
3 priorities for Congress in lame-duck session
After a long and brutally divisive election season, federal lawmakers now return to Capitol Hill for the final weeks of the 118th Congress –...
Don’t stymie primary-care tech advancements
An absolute requirement during the COVID-19 pandemic, telemedicine has been a game-changer for patients across the state of Rhode Island. Essential to this new...
What’s next for telemedicine? Patients, providers should decide
Telemedicine use exploded when the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic made in-person care difficult. Now, two years later, providers and policymakers must decide what...
4 Big Health Benefits Trends to Watch in 2022
Since the start of the pandemic, the health care industry has been continuously challenged to evolve. Even the very definitions of consumer health and...
Rolling applications open for NEMIC business accelerator program
PROVIDENCE – The New England Medical Innovation Center is offering rolling applications for its three-month business accelerator geared toward mental health, equity and telehealth...
Out-of-state telehealth visits hit some snags
At the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, telemedicine was hailed as a lifesaver, allowing patients to see their doctor virtually without the risk of...
Push on to make benefits of telehealth permanent
Seeing a doctor became much easier in the pandemic for many people who avoided travel time, office waits and the risk of exposure to...
Lotus Noire provides ‘culturally competent’ medical services
Temperance Taylor’s mission stems from problems she has seen and experienced in medical treatment as a Black single mom and family nurse practitioner.
Taylor recalled...
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