Although it’s been around since at least the mid-1990s, telehealth has been slow to catch on before this spring, said Mei Kwong, executive director for the Center for
WASHINGTON STATE -- Emily Groff had never considered telehealth until her abdomen started hurting. Even then, she wasn’t convinced it would help.
It was late March, at the start of
A seven-state news investigation revealed plenty of problems facing rural patients but also a variety of creative attempts to solve them. The head of the National Rural Health Association puts it this way: “Everyone realizes we’re at a crisis point."
