Remote Patient Monitoring
Rural pharmacies found 10,000 at-risk patients in six months. The harder question is who manages them next.
Twenty-five rural pharmacies screened their own patients for six months and identified nearly 10,000 people at risk of stroke or heart disease. That is the first-phase result of a pilot run by the NCPA Innovation Center, CPESN Community Health, and Bristol Myers Squibb across Alabama, Arkansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, and Missouri, the six states known…
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Why Cellular RPM Devices Matter in Rural Healthcare
Here’s a scenario that plays out more often than most RPM vendors will tell you. A pharmacy enrolls a patient in a remote monitoring program. The device ships. The patient is a 74-year-old woman managing hypertension and Type 2 diabetes, lives thirty minutes outside a small town, and has internet service that works fine when…
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The Rural Health Transformation Program: A Once-in-a-Generation Opportunity for Rural America
The Opportunity The Rural Health Transformation Program (RHTP) is one of the most significant federal efforts in decades to strengthen the foundation of rural healthcare. Backed by $50 billion over five years, the program allows each state to design its own blueprint for improving access, workforce, and technology in rural communities. For the 60 million…
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