Department of Health
and Human Services (HHS)
and Human Services (HHS)
September 9, 2021
None
Division of Program Coordination, Planning and Strategic Initiatives, Office of Disease Prevention (ODP)
Workshop Details
NIH Pathways to Prevention Workshop:
Improving Rural Health Through Telehealth-Guided Provider-to-Provider Communication
October 12-14, 2021
Online Only
Register to Attend: https://bit.ly/P2PRuralHealth
The NIH is hosting the virtual Pathways to Prevention Workshop: Improving Rural Health Through Telehealth-Guided Provider-to-Provider Communication to better understand what is and is not known about the effectiveness of telehealth-guided provider-to-provider communication to improve health outcomes in rural settings.
Background
About one-fifth of all people in the United States live in rural areas, which have higher mortality rates, a higher prevalence of diseases, and lower life expectancy than urban areas. Telehealth-guided collaboration between care providers has the potential to increase access to services and improve health outcomes in underserved rural populations. However, more research is needed to better understand how provider-to-provider telehealth affects rural patients, populations, health care providers, and payers. Workshop speakers will identify those research gaps and explore barriers to and facilitators of successful and sustainable implementation of provider-to-provider telehealth in rural settings.
Attendees will have opportunities to submit questions and comments during discussion periods. After weighing the evidence, an independent panel will prepare a report that summarizes the workshop and identifies future research priorities.
The workshop is being co-sponsored by the NIH ODP; National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences; National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute; Health Resources & Services Administration; and Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
This will be the tenth workshop convened as part of the NIH Pathways to Prevention program. Pathways to Prevention workshops use an unbiased, evidence-based process to identify research gaps in a scientific area of broad public health importance and suggest ways to move the field forward.
Register Online
The workshop is free and open to the public. Registration is required, you must register separately for each day you plan to attend in order to receive a unique meeting link for that specific day. To register to attend and to receive the latest information about the workshop, visit https://bit.ly/P2PRuralHealth
More Information
For more information, visit the workshop webpage.
Kate Winseck, M.S.W.
P2P Coordinator
Office of Disease Prevention (ODP)
Telephone: 301-827-5561
Email: NIHP2P@mail.nih.gov