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    • Year 1 Projects
      • Association of Telehealth Technology and Financial Performance in Rural Hospitals
      • Current State of Telehealth Remote Patient Monitoring
      • Objective Program Examination and Gap Analysis of Telehealth Resource Centers (OPAL-TRC)
      • RTEC Telehealth Broadband Pilot Program Evaluation
      • Summary of Telehealth Definitions: A Scoping Review
      • Summative Examination of Licensure Portability Program (SEAL-LPP)
    • Year 2 Projects
      • An Evaluation of Remote Patient Monitoring (RPM) Utilization on a National Level
      • An Evaluation of Rural/Urban Telehealth During the COVID-19 Pandemic: Impact on Utilization and Spending through a Health Equity Lens
      • Did State-level Emergency Initiatives to Facilitate Telehealth Help Reduce the Urban-Rural Disparity in Healthcare Utilization?
      • The Effect of Telehealth Implementation on Hospital Financial Performance: An Urban and Rural Hospital Comparison
    • Year 3 Projects
      • Assessing the Impact of Telehealth Delivery on Adherence to Medications for Opioid Use Disorder
      • Financial performance of low-resource hospitals adopting telemedicine during the COVID-19 pandemic
      • Prenatal Opioid Use Disorder Treatment delivered through Telehealth and Punitive and Reporting State Policies
      • Telehealth Technology-Enabled Learning Program: Evaluation and Dissemination
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The Rural Telehealth Evaluation Center (RTEC) is funded by the Federal Office of Rural Health Policy (FORHP), the US Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) to conduct evaluation research on telehealth services, which aligns with Section 711 of the Social Security Act. Additionally, the RTEC aligns with Section 11 by establishing and maintaining a clearinghouse to collect and disseminate information on rural healthcare issues, research findings on rural healthcare issues, and innovative approaches to the delivery of healthcare in rural areas, specifically through the use of digital health.

RTEC is directed by the UAMS Institute for Digital Health & Innovation (IDHI). We evaluate telehealth practices to show how they affect patient outcomes and rural hospitals. RTEC’s research portfolio encompasses the evaluation of digital health solutions and programs from efficacy and financial perspectives. These evaluation findings serve to help inform rural hospitals on utilizing telehealth in their practice while giving policymakers key points needed for focus and funding to advance telehealth in rural America.

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