Medical Economics December 1, 2023
Jackleen Samuel

As more Americans lose access to local facilities, technology can help bring high quality care directly to their homes

All across the United States today, there are massive medical deserts. These are remote areas of rural America where the closest hospital could be up to hours away. For most healthy individuals, this is a minor inconvenience without much bearing on their day-to-day lives. For those who suffer from chronic illnesses that require frequent hospitalization or services and treatments that are unavailable at their local physician’s office, however, these figurative medical deserts can be just as difficult to traverse as any stretch of the Sahara. These rural hospitals do their best to provide care for patients who may be coming from...

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