The Alliance for Connected Care sent a letter to Governors, highlighting an important opportunity to prioritize new and emerging technologies and data and technology-driven solutions that help rural providers furnish high-quality health care services.
The Alliance strongly encouraged States to consider:
- Support for state action to design and implement telehealth registry capabilities that enable more cross-border care;
- Support for rural hospitals to better leverage out-of-state specialists through telehealth to augment their community capabilities;
- Efforts to expand national clinical trial participation at rural hospitals;
- Facilitate the cross-border sharing of prescription data for safety, and/or
- Funding to leverage remote physiologic monitoring (RPM) services and empower patients to prevent and manage their chronic disease.
The ability for licensed, credentialed health care professionals to provide patient care across state lines via telehealth helped maintain continuity of care, promoted patient choice, helped address workforce shortages, and improved access and care coordination. Increased telehealth access across the country also helped improve patient access to primary and specialty care, boosted patient and caregiver engagement, reduced missed appointments, and improved post-operative care.
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