Bridging the Gap: Telehealth Applications in Palliative Care (P20)

As with many specialties, it is difficult to sustain palliative care programs in rural areas. This is particularly true in areas such as the Southeast where non-urban hospitals tend to be small and for-profit, two characteristics associated with lacking palliative care services. Early efforts to address rural inequities focused on moving specialists into areas of need, but some of these succumbed to a lack of consistent volume and revenue for the time expended by specialists. More recently, efforts to address rural inequities have shifted to using technology to bridge the distances.

Source: Journal of Pain and Symptom Management - January 25, 2020 Category: Palliative Care Authors: Danielle Noreika, J. Brian Cassel, Jennifer A. Hicks, Elizabeth K. Burpee, Kim Twisdale, Janet H. Bull Source Type: research