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Pharma
World-Famous Wall Drug Isn't Immune From Challenges Facing Rural Pharmacies
Rural pharmacies, especially independent ones, closed at a higher rate from 2003 to 2021 than pharmacies in other areas.
Technology
Rescue From Above: How Drones May Narrow Emergency Response Times
Public safety and healthcare organizations across the country use drones to speed up lifesaving treatment in situations in which every...
Innovation
New Licensure Compact Could Boost SDOH, Behavioral Health Outreach
A licensure compact for social workers would enable health systems and hospitals to expand telehealth outreach and include social workers...
CEO
How One CEO Advocates for Supporting Rural Healthcare
"Give us a little help and allow us to keep innovating," says Grande Ronde Hospital CEO Jeremy Davis.
CMO
Rural Hospitals Built During Baby Boom Now Face Baby Bust
More than half of rural U.S. hospitals now lack the service.
Innovation
Pennsylvania Finally OKs Telehealth Parity
After roughly a decade of sometimes political wrangling, a new law mandates that payers reimburse providers for covered services offered...
Innovation
Rural RPM Program Is a Lifeline for Pregnant Women
Sanford Health?s remote patient monitoring program in northern Minnesota is giving pregnant women access to critical care services and resources
CFO
4-Pillar Culture and 3-Legged Stool: Sanford's New CFO Gets Real on What it Takes to Build a 'Premier Rural Health System'
Sweeping across 250,000 square miles, Sanford Health has a big footprint, and CFO Nick Olson has even bigger insights to...
Innovation
Hospitals Take to the Air to Improve Home-Based Care
As health systems shift more care services to the patient's home, they're looking at drones to solve key supply chain...
Payer
Medicaid Unwinding Deals Blow to Tenuous System of Care for Native Americans
13,000 tribal members have been disenrolled from Medicaid in Montana alone.
Technology
Can ECMO Help Rural Hospitals Save More Lives?
Health systems in Minnesota and Nevada are getting more than $30 million in grants to support ECMO programs, which treat...