This article explains how telehealth can help rural providers in two ways. It connects rural providers and patients to services at distant sites, thereby avoiding long travel times, and promotes patient-centered health care through the use of telecommunication technologies that can provide clinical and non-clinical services.

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This list explains the clinical and non-clinical services offered through telehealth, including videoconferencing, store-and-forward consultation, training, education, and public health and health administration. The site also offers links to pages that offer more information.

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A webpage that defines telehealth and telemedicine and provides links to resources for further clarification.

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This webpage explains that broadband is important for rural health care providers because many of the capabilities of health IT, including telehealth and electronic exchange of health care information, require the higher speeds and bandwidth of broadband.

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This webpage describes the infrastructure needed to build a telehealth system, including broadband access, imaging technology or peripherals, technical support staff, and training.

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Published in 2014, this guide provides an overview and framework for the implementation of telehealth systems in critical access hospitals and rural areas. It also offers resources for readers to learn more about telehealth and organizations that support the use of telehealth.

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A report that explains the importance of online access for individuals to share health information with their providers and caregivers. But while the use of online medical records is growing, steps still need to be taken to make online health information more accessible and useful.

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A brief from 2019 that uses data from the American Hospital Association Information Technology Survey to recognize trends in the use of Electronic Health Records (EHR), with 94 percent of non-federal acute care hospitals using information from their EHRs. It highlights the growth in 10 processes that inform clinical practice and presents variation in the use of this data by hospital characteristics from 2015-2017.

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Published in 2018, this brief describes how HHAs and SNFs are using health IT, with specific focuses on questions of EHR adoption and interoperability. It also describes variation in interoperability by method of electronic exchange and examines how often these facilities have information electronically available at the point of care.

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This infographic displays different statistics to show how interoperability—the ability of electronic health information to be exchanged between systems—can transform the American healthcare industry.

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This infographic presents data that shows that adoption of Electronic Health Record (EHR) and other healthcare-related technologies increased significantly between 2009 and 2012. According to HealthIT.gov’s research, 85 percent of physicians who have adopted EHR were satisfied with their system, and 78 percent believed that it enhanced the overall patient care.

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This infographic from the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology illustrates the progress of adopting technology in the healthcare industry. There is a robust participation in the Electronic Health Record (EHR) Incentive programs along with increased federal investment into Health IT products.

This resource from NTIA presents a collection of blog posts ranging in topics from spectrum management to internet policy to broadband.

This report assesses the current status of broadband availability in North Carolina and offers strategies to achieve universal access. The chief recommendations focus on incentivizing investment in next generation, future-proof infrastructure and reducing barriers to deployment, creating community-based adoption and use programs, closing the "homework gap," facilitating integration of broadband into economic development strategies, and leveraging the influence telehealth technologies have on household broadband adoption and use.

This resource argues that efforts to close the digital divide in the Black rural South have been lacking, providing support showing that high-speed internet and broadband service are often not available or affordable in these areas, and that access to these services would demonstrably improve quality of life. It recommends the establishment of a permanent and meaningful broadband benefit program and a taskforce to prevent digital redlining, among other policies.