mHealth Intelligence March 28, 2024
Anuja Vaidya

Virtual care provider Eagle Telemedicine has launched an alliance that enables rural hospitals to share costs and resources for virtual specialty care services.

Rural healthcare provider organizations have a formidable mandate: improve health outcomes of underserved populations with shoestring budgets and limited clinical resources. Though virtual care approaches have proven valuable in expanding care access and outcomes, rural facilities face financial and operational barriers to implementing them. This led one virtual care provider to create a novel solution: an alliance that allows rural hospitals with similar needs to band together to deploy virtual specialty services.

Research shows that virtual care technologies and programs can positively affect rural healthcare. One report published last year revealed that expanding telehealth access through broadband...

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