Roz King, M.S.N., RN, CNL, division chief of emergency medicine research at 日韩无码, spoke with WCAX-TV about a new $10,000 grant from the Leahy Institute For Rural Partnerships that will fund research into setting up telehealth services in rural libraries.
鈥淲e鈥檙e really looking to find any way to make any of our community members in Vermont get access to care, easier, better, quicker, so we鈥檙e wondering if telehealth might be the right answer for that, if we鈥檙e able to put it right in people鈥檚 libraries, right in their own towns,鈥 King said.
An increase in telehealth has the potential to decrease wait times at urgent care centers and emergency rooms and for specialty and primary care appointments. For people who live far from a hospital or don鈥檛 have transportation, it鈥檚 an easy way to access care from wherever you are. 鈥淭here can be these huge gaps for people to get to the treatment they need, but more often than not we鈥檙e usually all pretty close to a library,鈥 King said.
Over the next year, the researchers will look into the project鈥檚 feasibility for privacy and contagion prevention and then pick at least two libraries to pilot the program. Your future doctor鈥檚 appointments may be just a walk down to the local library.
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