How IT can help sustain rural healthcare

Over the past 15 years, more than 150 rural hospitals have closed. With new reductions in CMS reimbursements, more could be at risk. As community hospitals and other small providers juggle cybersecurity, AI, virtual care and more, they're often doing so with limited resources and smaller workforces. The $50 billion Rural Health Transformation Program aims to help these providers with digital transformation and sustainability. But many challenges remain as clinical and IT leaders continue working to improve quality, reduce costs and expand access across rural America.

In this regularly updated special coverage page, Healthcare IT News offers the perspectives of IT leaders at community/critical access hospitals and other rural providers and the technologies they are using to help to coordinate and improve care delivery.