Category: HRSA

Article: Researcher Experience and Comfort with Telemedicine and Remote Patient Monitoring in Cancer Treatment Trials

March 25, 2025

Article: Researcher Experience and Comfort with Telemedicine and Remote Patient Monitoring in Cancer Treatment Trials

Since the onset of COVID-19, oncology practices across the US have integrated telemedicine ™ and remote patient monitoring (RPM) into routine care and clinical trials. The extent of provider experience and comfort with TM/RPM in treatment trials, however, is unknown. Oncology researchers were surveyed to assess experience and comfort with TM/RPM.

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Upcoming Event – Virtual Nursing: Innovations to Mitigate a Healthcare Workforce Crisis, April 17

March 25, 2025

Upcoming Event – Virtual Nursing: Innovations to Mitigate a Healthcare Workforce Crisis, April 17

In this virtual event, a panel of experts will highlight innovations in virtual nursing as a tool to improve the efficiencies of the healthcare workforce.

  • The Medical University of South Carolina’s Center for Telehealth will present its successes using virtual nursing to reduce patient harm and alleviate administrative burdens from bedside nursing.
  • The University of Mississippi Medical Center’s Center for Telehealth will highlight the application of artificial intelligence to virtual nursing.

Cost: Free

When: Thursday, April 17, 1:00 p.m.

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Telehealth and Cancer Care Best Practice Guide

March 25, 2025

Telehealth and Cancer Care Best Practice Guide

Each year, 150,000 Americans are diagnosed with – and 50,000 die from – colorectal cancer, making it the leading cause of cancer death among Americans aged 18 to 49. This Colorectal Cancer Awareness Month, learn how to integrate telehealth as part of your cancer care programs.

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Telehealth During National Nutrition Month

March 25, 2025

Telehealth During National Nutrition Month

Telehealth can be a useful tool for managing nutrition. This National Nutrition Month, learn how to build a telehealth workflow to help your patients stay on top of their nutrition care.

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Telehealth Policy Update

March 25, 2025

Telehealth Policy Update

Recent legislation authorized an extension of many of the Medicare telehealth flexibilities. This includes:

  • Waiving geographic and originating site requirements through September 30, 2025.
  • Allowing eligible practitioners to furnish telehealth services through September 30, 2025.
  • Allowing Federally Qualified Health Centers and Rural Health Clinics to serve as distant site providers through September 30, 2025.
  • Delaying in-person requirements for tele-mental health services through September 30, 2025.
  • Allowing audio-only telehealth through September 30, 2025.

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Rural Hospital Stabilization Program

March 21, 2025

Rural Hospital Stabilization Program

The Rural Hospital Stabilization Program (RHSP) is funded by the Health Resources and Services Administration’s Federal Office of Rural Health Policy and administered by the National Rural Health Resource Center.

RHSP offers assistance to rural hospitals, at no cost to them to help them improve their financial stability by enhancing or expanding health care services that meet community needs. This may include everything from pulmonary rehabilitation to outpatient behavioral health services to expanded primary care and keep care close to home.

The Center’s subject matter experts and a team of nationally recognized consultants familiar with rural hospitals provide:

  • Comprehensive financial and operational assessments,
  • Education,
  • One-on-one coaching,
  • Peer-to-peer sharing, and
  • Other forms of customized assistance.

Hospitals participating in the cohort style program work to identify clinical areas where the expansion or addition of services would help to ensure that care is available locally, and develop those service lines to bolster patient volume, optimize service utilization and improve cash flow.

Hospitals that meet program expectations and are selected for participation may receive financial support for operating and equipment costs for service line development and a Community Engagement Champion.

Benefits of Participation:

  • Improve financial position and increase operational efficiencies
  • Enhance stability and sustain access to care,
  • Grow services to increase patient volume,
  • Align service to community needs,
  • Bolster revenue and reduce bypass,
  • Enhance community perception of the hospital.

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HRSA National Health Service Corps/SAMHSA: Medications for Opioid Use Disorder Training

March 21, 2025

HRSA National Health Service Corps/SAMHSA: Medications for Opioid Use Disorder Training

The National Health Service Corps is partnering with the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) to increase the number of clinicians trained to prescribe buprenorphine, and other medications as part of a wholistic treatment plan for opioid use disorders in high-need communities.

SAMHSA’s Provider Clinical Support System-Medications for Opioid Use Disorder (PCSS-MOUD) offers the most effective, evidence-based clinical practices

  • preventing,
  • identifying,
  • and treating opioid-use disorder.

PCSS-MOUD provides free 8-hour MOUD training, year-round.

Are Your eligible for the training?

You are eligible for the free 8-hour MOUD Training if you have an active Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) number to dispense controlled substances and are one of the following:

  • Physician (Doctor of Medicine (MD) or Doctor of Osteopathic Medicine (DO),
  • Nurse practitioner (NP),
  • Physician assistant (PA),
  • Certified nurse midwives (CNM),
  • Certified registered nurse anesthetics (CRNA), or
  • Medical student
  • Medical students may complete the training but will not be eligible for a DEA number until they are fully licensed.

The training is eight hours and can be taken in-person or online. The training can also be split into more than one session.

I already completed X-waiver training:

  • If you have completed training for the DATA Waiver, also know as the X-waiver, you have satisfied this training requirement.
  • This training also satisfies the June 2023 mandate for health professionals who are registering or renewing a DEA license.
  • Visit the Drug Enforcement Agency’s Medication Assisted Treatment page to learn more about the training and how to obtain your DEA number

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HRSA Needs Rural Reviewers for Grant Applications

March 21, 2025

HRSA Needs Rural Reviewers for Grant Applications

Are you an expert in certain subjects related to health care? If so, you may be able to help the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) review grant applications.

What is a grant application reviewer?

  • Professionals who use their health care knowledge and experience to evaluate grant applications.
    • Their feedback is part of HRSA’s process in deciding who receives grant awards.

Expectations:

  • Get trained on how to evaluate applications and use HRSA’s online portal – the Application Review Module (ARM),
  • Review applications using published evaluation criteria,
  • Provide scores and comments in the ARM, and
  • Discuss scores and evaluation with other reviewers on your panel.

How to Become a Grant Reviewer:

  • If you have experience in health care, register via HRSA’s Reviewer Recruitment Module (RRM).
  • HRSA is looking for people who are experts in these areas:
    • Behavioral health
    • Health workforce training
    • HIV/AIDS
    • Maternal and child health
    • Primary care delivery
    • Rural health
    • Health equity
  • HRSA also wants reviewers who have:
    • Lived experience, such as:
      • A member of an underserved community,
      • Having a disability or health condition.
    • Expertise in social determinants of health,
    • Experience working with underserved communities, and
    • Familiarity with social, cultural, or health care issues of people in rural areas, migrants, or Native Americans.

Does a grant reviewer get paid?

  • HRSA compensates nonfederal reviewers

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Informational Webinar on NASHP Maternity Care Deserts Policy Academy, March 25

March 21, 2025

Informational Webinar on NASHP Maternity Care Deserts Policy Academy, March 25

With support from the Health Resources and Services Administration’s (HRSA’s) Maternal and Child Health Bureau, the National Academy for State Health Policy (NASHP) will provide an overview and answer questions about the NASHP policy academy, Advancing State Strategies to Address Maternity Care Deserts.

Teams of state health officials

  • public health,
  • Medicaid,
  • behavioral health,
  • provider groups, and
  • others

will receive technical assistance to support and advance innovative state-level policy initiatives that address the growth of maternity care deserts and improve access to maternal and child health care.

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