Telehealth adoption requires nuanced approach beyond simply running cables to rural areas, new report shows

McKnight’s Senior Living January 19, 2024
Aaron Dorman

Telehealth expansion has been supported by many healthcare and government leaders in the post-pandemic world, including President Biden, as a way to ensure everyone has access to coverage and essential health services.

However, adding broadband access to rural or underserved communities may not be a silver bullet that enables telehealth use in those areas, a new study shows.

This means that long-term care providers, particularly those in rural areas, need to make sure that digital literacy training and cultural factors are in place for telehealth use.

Study authors were most concerned with policymakers and whether they were viewing telehealth issues too narrowly.

While the study, which looked at 170,000 Wisconsin Medicaid beneficiaries, supported the idea that telehealth helped remove geographical...

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