Hospital & Healthcare Management January 10, 2024
Health professional shortage has remained a pressing problem throughout the US since 2020. However, rural areas are disproportionately affected: according to Statista, 65.5% of medical staff shortages in the primary care field are in rural areas, compared to 29.5% in urban and suburban ones. Despite joint efforts of healthcare organizations, software vendors, and the government to close this gap with the help of telemedicine solutions for primary care, rural patients remain medically underserved. The recent research conducted among the rural and urban Veterans Affairs beneficiaries showed the significant divide in telehealth usage.
Thus, to compensate for the medical staff deficit with telemedicine, we should consider the nuances of this technology’s implementation and usage, as applying the same adoption principles for...
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