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      • 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
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    • 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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Year 2 Projects

An Evaluation of Rural/Urban Telehealth During the COVID-19 Pandemic: Impact on Utilization and Spending through a Health Equity Lens

Lead Investigators: Cari Bogulski, Ph.D. and George Pro, Ph.D.

Summary of Project: This project will assess telehealth utilization and spending at a national level through a health equity lens.

An Evaluation of Remote Patient Monitoring (RPM) Utilization on a National Level

Lead Investigators: Corey Hayes, Ph.D., and Hari Eswaran, Ph.D.

Summary of Project: In this project, the utilization of Remote Patient Monitoring (RPM) services will be assessed using a national sample of Medicare beneficiaries and their corresponding healthcare claims data from 2018-2020.

The Effect of Telehealth Implementation on Hospital Financial Performance: An Urban and Rural Hospital Comparison

Lead Investigators: Saleema Karim, Ph.D., and Mick Tilford, Ph.D.

Summary of Project: This project will merge data on telehealth capabilities from the American Hospital Association Annual Survey with CMS cost information and other databases to test the hypothesis that having telehealth technology is associated with both improved hospital financial performance of urban and rural hospitals. 

Did State-level Emergency Initiatives to Facilitate Telehealth Help Reduce the Urban-Rural Disparity in Healthcare Utilization?

Lead Investigators: Lu Shi, Ph.D.

Summary of Project: This project will use a nationally representative survey sample collected in October 2020 by Clemson University, University of Nebraska Medical Center and National Opinion Research Center at the University of Chicago, to examine the potential role of state-level telehealth policies in reducing urban-rural disparity in healthcare utilization during the Covid-19 pandemic. 

Assessment of High-Risk Pregnancy Telehealth Interventions across Rural Areas

Lead Investigators: Hari Eswaran, Ph.D. and Mir Ali, Ph.D.

Summary of Project: The proposed study is two-fold. We will first conduct a landscape review to synthesize the overview of obstetrics telemedicine programs in the US including program characteristics and outcomes (e.g., clinical outcomes and economic outcomes). Secondly, we will access NHIS, IQVIA PharMetrics® Plus for Academics data, and Arkansas Medicaid (Angels) data to assess the prevalence and trends in telemedicine utilization among pregnant women covered by Medicaid, overall, and stratified by type of pregnancy (high-risk versus non-high risk) and by the maternal residential status (rural versus urban).

Telehealth Technology-Enabled Learning Program (TTELP) Evaluation

Lead Investigators: Hari Eswaran, Ph.D. and Katy Allison, Ph.D.

Summary of Project: The Rural Telehealth Evaluation Center (RTEC) will evaluate the newly funded TTELP program grantees over the course of the project funding.  RTEC will work with TTELP grantees in the first year to develop metrics and measures for subsequent use in future funding years.

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