Name
Rural Health Divide: Leveraging Virtual Care to Tackle Rural Health Disparities
Date & Time
Monday, April 7, 2025, 9:45 AM - 10:30 AM
Location Name
Grand Ballroom 7-9
Description
Rural communities face unique health challenges, including limited provider access, higher rates of chronic disease and geographic barriers to care delivery. Digital tools like virtual care can be transformative solutions to these issues, bridging gaps, enhancing care coordination and improving health outcomes for people in rural areas.
This session explores how data-driven strategies, value-based care models and digital health innovations can address rural health disparities and support health care providers in overcoming geographic limitations.
Key Takeaways:
- The role of data analytics in identifying rural health disparities.
- Digital tools and platforms for enhancing rural health outcomes.
- How value-based care frameworks incentivize innovative uses of analytics to improve patient outcomes and reduce costs in rural populations.
- Best practices for integrating analytics into clinical and operational workflows to address barriers to care, improve patient outcomes and support rural health care providers.
Join this session to gain actionable insights into how virtual care can improve patient outcomes in rural areas.
Speakers
Laura Kessel, MSW, Southern Illinois University (SIU) School of Medicine
Rosalyn Perkins, University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, Institute for Digital Health & Innovation
Rosalyn Perkins, University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, Institute for Digital Health & Innovation

