Archived Newsletter 2013-2023
Archived Newsletters 2013-2024
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December 2020
- Telehealth educational videos
- Funding opportunities to expand access to telehealth
- Telemedicine ECHO, COVID-19, and HTRC webinars
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November 2020
- Telehealth educational videos
- Funding opportunities to expand access to telehealth
- Telemedicine ECHO, COVID-19, and HTRC webinars
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October 2020
- Telehealth educational videos
- Funding opportunities to expand access to telehealth
- Telemedicine ECHO, COVID-19, and HTRC webinars
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September 2020
- Telehealth educational videos
- Funding opportunities to expand access to telehealth
- Telemedicine ECHO, COVID-19, and HTRC webinars
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August 2020
Telehealth educational videos
Funding opportunities to expand access to telehealth
Telemedicine ECHO, COVID-19, and HTRC webinars
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July 2020
Telehealth educational videos
Funding opportunities to expand access to telehealth
Telemedicine ECHO, COVID-19, and HTRC webinars
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June 2020
Telehealth educational videos
Funding opportunities to expand access to telehealth
Telemedicine ECHO, COVID-19, and HTRC webinars
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May 2020
- Telehealth educational videos
- Funding opportunities to expand access to telehealth
- Telemedicine ECHO, COVID-19, and HTRC webinars
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April 2020
- State and federal updates to telehealth policy during COVID-19
- Funding opportunities to expand access to telehealth
- Telemedicine ECHO, COVID-19, and HTRC webinars
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March 2020
- NEW COVID-19 Resources for Telehealth
- COVID-19 ECHOs
- Distance Learning and Telemedicine Grant
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February 2020
- CMS emergency response to COVID-19
- Distance Learning and Telemedicine Grant
- Register for HTRC Webinar Series: Opioids and Substance Use Treatment, April 7
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January 2020
- New telehealth opportunities!
- Telehealth network grant program
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December 2019
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November 2019
- Rural, telecardiology partnership: A story of connections
- CCHP releases update of state telehealth policy
- Write Your Own DLT Grant Workshop
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October 2019
- Team-based care benefits chronically ill patients
- HTRC celebrates the power of rural
- CCHP releases update of state telehealth policy
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September 2019
- Genetic testing for breast cancer gets a boost in Kansas
- Do your patients know you offer telehealth???
- Senior acceptance of telehealth
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August 2019
- Results of HTRC's 2019 Physician Assistant Telehealth survey
- AAPA announces telehealth committee
- Legislative update for PAs
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July 2019
- Oklahoma Telehealth Summit kicks off August 26
- Telehealth Technology Showcase
- ATA releases new, 50-state reimbursement report
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June 2019
- A rural Kansas hospital expands services through telehealth
- The iAmHealthy Approach to Rural Pediatric Obesity
- New study shows increase in telehealth use
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May 2019
- Distance counseling in higher education
- Telemedicine: A Provider's Prospective
- ECHO superhub
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April 2019
- High-risk pregnancy ECHOs
- Use of Telehealth to Increase Access to Dental Care
- Developmental disabilities ECHO series
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March 2019
- Virtual diabetes prevention programs
- Telehealth partnership brings hospitals together
- Licensure compact update
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February 2019
- Deploying technology solutions to help children reach a healthy weight
- Obesity Medicine ECHO
- Missouri Telehealth Summit profiles Missouri telehealth successes
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January 2019
- Telestroke in the spotlight on HTRC webinar series
- Take the biennial TTAC Survey
- New year, new CMS codes and more!
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December 2018
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November 2018
- Maternal and Child Health grants awarded in HTRC region
- DLT grants in HTRC region
- Guidance for FQHCs in Missouri
- HHS Guidance on treatment of substance use disorder
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October 2018
- Telehealth Technology Summit
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September 2018
- OSU HIV telehealth clinic increases access for rural Oklahomans
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August 2018
- Educating the educators through Project ECHO
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July 2018
- Project ECHO making a difference for Hep C patients
- Remote patient monitoring may receive boost from CMS
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June 2018
- FCC votes to raise funding cap on rural telehealth program
- Telehealth: A bright spot in the rural health landscape
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May 2018
- Kansas Telemedicine Act signed into law
- Show-Me ECHO works to improve veteran health
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April 2018
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March 2018
- Kitchen Therapy streams healthy cooking lessons
- Telehealth bills to watch in Kansas & Missouri
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February 2018
- Medicare coverage to expand for telehealth home dialysis
- Telehealth successes in the new federal spending bill
- Project ECHO's Dr. Sanjeev Arora visits Kansas
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January 2018
- American Heart Month: Remote patient monitoring and heart health
- USDA telehealth grants awarded to Oklahoma and Missouri orgs.
- Results of Oklahoma Telehealth Utilization Survey
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December 2017
- New CMS billing codes for telehealth
- FCC votes to end net neutrality regulations
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November 2017
- Public health meets telehealth
- CCHP report shows strengths and weaknesses of telehealth policy in Kan., Mo. and Okla.
- AAN teleneurology team develops curriculum to standardize practice
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October 2017
- HTRC and a happy patient usher in telehealth in Kansas CAH
- Project ECHO: One billion lives by 2025
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September 2017
- ECHO reducing impact of childhood asthma in Missouri
- Impact Asthma ECHO savings likely top $4 million
- Family physicians receive dose of telehealth from TRCs
- Telehealth steps up in a crisis
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August 2017
- National Maternal and Infant Nutrition Course
- Tribute to Mario Gutierrez
- Telehospice providing comfort in rural Kansas
- New Missouri Hospital Foundation report
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July 2017
- Telehealth's role in the opioid crisis
- Most wired hospitals list
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June 2017
- New youth telemental health practice guidelines
- Family physicians are interested in telehealth, few are using
- State telehealth regulation quick reference guides
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May 2017
- Physical Therapy Licensure Compact
- HTRC partners present at National Rural Health Association Conference
- Practical tips for procuring telehealth reimbursement
- Senator Moran (R-Kan.) convenes hearing to discuss VA Telemedicine
- Show-Me ECHO funding restored
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April 2017
- School nurses vital to implementation of school telehealth program
- Meeting school nurses where they are
- New opportunity for Kansas docs to practice telemed across state lines
- MTN's Mirna Becevic, Ph. D. chosen as a top faculty achiever
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March 2017
- Regional Telehealth Legislative Update
- Study finds DTC telehealth visits not a panacea
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January 2017
- 21st Century Cures Act keeps Telehealth a hot topic
- Telehealth ROCKS (Rural Outreach for Children of Kansas) implementation strategies revealed
- Missouri Governor cuts telehealth funding
- Sunflower Foundation Capacity Building Grants
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December 2016
- Indian Health Workshop
- Telehealth Technology Assessment Centers Survey
- HTRC director publishes elemental health guide
- National ECHO bill heads to House
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November 2016
- Telesupervision in Kansas, Missouri, and Oklahoma aids rural communities
- HTRC Director, Eve-Lynn Nelson, to serve on The National Quality Forum
- Professional development training to advance integration of telehealth in Missouri
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October 2016
- KanTel board recommendation meeting
- HTRC says "goodbye" to Oklahoma director, Cynthia Scheideman-Miller
- A new Kansas partnership hopes to improve access to care in rural Kansas
- Skilled nursing facilities soon eligible for Universal Service Fund
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September 2016
- Oklahoma Congressman Markwayne Mullin tours telehealth sites
- Show-Me ECHO teams kick off fall season
- Kansas ECHO Pain Management
- Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) report recommends changes to Medicare coverage
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August 2016
- Virtual diabetes prevention programs
- Telehealth partnership brings hospitals together
- Licensure compact update
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July 2016
- mHealth's role in Missouri's war on melanoma
- Introducing Kantel, teleheatlh advisory board in Kansas
- Expansion of telehealth to allied health practices in Oklahoma
- AMA taking steps to ensure quality of telemedicine startups
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June 2016
- Telepresenter tips from a telehospitalist
- Missouri's war on melanoma
- Telemedicine makes things easier for recent heart transplant patients in Wichita
- Kiosks poised to improve mental health in central Kansas
- The VA announces plans to expand telemental health services around the country
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May 2016
- Dietary consultations: Now available through telemedicine
- Compacts aim to increase telehealth practice in Kansas and Oklahoma
- Project-ECHO is making waves on a national scale
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April 2016
- Montana tackles diabetes head-on with the implementation of a state-wide Diabetes Prevention Program
- KUMC's TeleECHO program partners with rural Kansas communities to treat autism
- CoxHealth is making strides in reproductive care by incorporating telemedicine
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March 2016
- Bipartisan, federal legislation would mark a major advancement in telehealth coverage
- Kansas connects community to free mental health and substance use checkups
- Telehealth may expand Oklahoman's access to optometrists
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February 2016
- Movement to end informed consent for telehealth signals change in acceptance
- Missouri legislators all in for telehealth
- Kansas Hospital Association hosts telemed workshop
- CMS's new rule could mean transformation for Medicaid Home Health
- NextGen ACOs to remove geographical telehealth restrictions
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January 2016
- Patients are ready for telehealth
- Rule changes would increase access to speech and language audiology services
- New Telehealth Alliance of Oklahoma benefit
- New USDA telemedicine grants announced
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December 2015
- MTN research confirms: Patients love telehealth
- Kansas mental health facility will offer much-needed services with telehealth
- Oklahoma expands PA scope-of-practice
- Three Missouri facilities awarded USDA telemed grants
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November 2015
- TRCs talk to vendors about needs of rural users
- Mercy opens virtual care center
- Oklahoma payer adds telehealth coverage
- HTRC presents at APHA
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October 2015
- VIDEO: Telepresenter best practices
- Inside look at Missouri's IMPACT Asthma ECHO
- Telehealth Rocks grant to focus on child poverty in rural communities
- Regulatory round-up
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September 2015
- VIDEO: INTEGRIS Health uses FaceTime to offer care anytime, anywhere
- Salina Regional expands telehealth program
- University of Missouri mHealth innovations
- What you need to know about the Nurse Licensure Compact
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August 2015
- VIDEO: How to avoid telemedicine faux pas
- Kansas expands mental health deaf services
- SLIDESHOW: Focus on Telehealth tips
- Center for Connected Health report: slow improvements in reimbursement
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July 2015
- Oklahoma Medicaid expands telehealth coverage!
- VIDEO: Rural cardiologist uses EKG smartphone app to increase capacity
- Missouri telehealth project lands state funding
- Kansas works to connect special needs families to care
- Medicare turns 50
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April 2015
- Video: Dr. Karen Edison on doctor-patient relationships via telemed
- Better tech leads to tele-oncology expansion in Salina, Kan.
- Federal and state legislative update
- Telehealth news round-up
- Aspiring health care professionals introduced to telehealth
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January 2015
- Five promising technologies from Consumer Electronics Show
- Oklahoma Medicaid increases telehealth coverage
- 2015 CMS telehealth codes
- Meet new HTRC Project Director Janine Gracy
- Show-Me ECHO launches early to bring needed pain relief
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October 2014
- Seven ways to get your home monitoring program started
- Oklahoma Telehealth Conference: Transforming health care
- Telegenetic counseling increases access for SW Oklahoma
- How a robot has expanded pediatric allergy services in Kansas
- Telehealth stakeholders praise CMS proposal, think more can be done
- $12 million grant awarded to KU Hospital and partners
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July 2014
- CMS cuts red tape for CAHs and FQHCs
- CMS proposes new telemedicine CPT codes
- MTN builds capacity in Mexico
- Okla. bill means CMHCs can continue services
- Tip: Finding a provider
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April 2014
- HTRC takes the show on the road in Kansas
- CEO perspective: Why what's good for patients is good for business
- Show-Me ECHO mentoring project set to begin in Missouri
- What can HTRC do for you?
- Tip: Bill for it!
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January 2014
• iPads help parents connect with newborns in NICU
• Most Oklahoma telemedicine is rural to rural
• Video: Making telehealth implementation easy
• CMS expands telehealth reimbursement
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December 2013
- KU puts telemedicine on wheels with the Wellcar
- Successful implementation is in the details
- Making telemedicine part of your routine
- HTRC continues work with Oklahoma legislature
- Tips for telehealth presenters
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November 2013
VIDEO: Money-saving telehealth tips
• Can you have too much bandwidth?
• Diversifying telehealth services could improve your ROI
• Telehealth Alliance of Oklahoma Legislative Summit
• MTN telederm app
• OMB public hearing on Okla. telemed rules
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October 2013
- HTRC: Changing to meet today’s health care needs
- Safety First
- Make the most of needs assessments
- Was Skype to blame?
- Clearing the air over disciplined Oklahoma doctor
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September 2013
- Over 5,300 miles and a world of similarities
- Sustaining telehealth for the long term
- Midwest Cancer Alliance makes the most of telehealth
- New iPhone, new mHealth potential
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August 2013
- Live demo "show-stopper" at Oklahoma Healthcare Summit
- Telemedicine increasing profits, opportunities at St. Louis hospital
- ACO partnership reviving health care in Kansas
- VA continues telemedicine surge
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July 2013
- New Missouri law helps put telemedicine firmly on the map
- Oklahoma program helps keep kids safe
- iPads support patients with severe digestive disorders
- Telenursing project brings care for sexual assault victims closer to home
- Proposed CMS rule would redefine "rural"
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June 2013
- HIPAA-compliant texting in Kansas
- Broadband speeds health care access
- Mending hearts
- Media today: Now starring telemedicine
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May 2013
- Educating telehealth administrators of today and tomorrow
- OU Nursing Program trains future workforce for telehealth
- MU teledermatology clinic makes an impact: Increasing access and adoption of telemedicine
- Missouri Telehealth Network goes international
- Telemedicine making a splash on state and federal level
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April 2013
- Nourishing kids through telemedicine
- HTRC works to reduce barriers to telehealth adoption
- Telehealth as a tool for kids with autism
- Legislation to reimburse telemedicine reaches Missouri House
- Telehealth resource centers: The friends you didn’t know you had
- Three counties in HTRC tri-state gain telehealth benefits
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March 2013
- Waiting room app makes a difference for kids with IBD
- Pairing preemies and parents with an iPad
- Fitness technology gets people moving
- Regulating apps: How far will the FDA go?
- Listening with your eyes
- Future's so bright
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February 2013
- mHealth: Breaking the mental health access barrier for college students
- Tulsa at the heart of Million Hearts Campaign app launch
- North KC-based company receives FDA approval on fetal monitoring mobile device
- I (heart) apps
- What the new HIPAA rule means for mHealth
- HTRC partners work with Oklahoma state representative to draft legislation
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January 2013
- Kansas telemonitoring project shows promise for reducing hospital admissions
- Tulsa-area telehealth provider helps win CMS initiative
- Show-Me state success: Reducing readmissions
- ACA offers new opportunities for telehealth in 2013
- Applying health literacy to telehealth
- New 2013 telehealth codes
- FCC: Major changes to Rural Health Care Program
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