Rural Healthcare

This article was first published in Progressive Dairy magazine. Being a farmer isn’t just a job. It’s an identity and a lifelong love. Even when stressors like natural disasters, labor shortages, and shrinking profits continue to pile up, farmers push on. …

Punishing a Small Town Pharmacy for an NPI Mix Up by Cutting Off Billing, Seemingly Indefinitely Robertson County, Texas is a small, picturesque county just north of College Station (home of Texas A & M). Population 16,958, it’s the last place you’d expect any kind of pharmacy chicanery. So when…

(Check out part I here) Quality Improvement Initiatives The Center for Medicaid and CHIP services outlines Quality Improvement (QI) measures for certain improvement initiatives. Most of these initiatives are backed by grants awarded to certain states which are willing to form affinity groups. …

The vice-president and veterinarian at the South African Veterinary Council (SAVC), Doctor Nomsa Mnisi highlights the risks associated with limited veterinary health care services and solutions to tackle them. — According to Dr. Mnisi people living in South Africa’s more remote rural areas face challenges such as the limited availability of veterinary professionals, inequitable access to veterinary services and the high cost of private veterinary care.

Catch up on healthcare news and views curated by EquipMe. — QR codes reduce wait times in large hospitals More than 300 public hospitals in India have recently introduced a new QR code-based system for out-patient department (OPD) registrations. This has reduced the wait time from 50 minutes to just four minutes. …

Catch up on healthcare news and views curated by EquipMe. — Can visual puzzles rewire how your brain works? Donalee Markus believes so. The neuroscientist uses abstract picture puzzles to rewire the brain settings in kids with autism and victims of traumatic injuries. But the therapy has other applications too. …

The Sittilingi Organic Farmers Association (SOFA) shows how collectives founded on strong community values can benefit small and marginal farmers and the local ecology. — In the shadow of Kalrayan and Sitteri hills in northern Tamil Nadu’s Dharmapuri district lies Sittilingi, a village predominantly inhabited by Adivasi communities. …

The Solution To Rural Health Crisis May Take More Than Sheer Physician Incentives. — Improving health disparity has been at the top of the conversations among healthcare leaders for quite some time. Among many, we all see factors such as geographic location, access to education, and socioeconomic prosperity that would help us achieve health equity. Some nations have been prosperous in addressing some of…

Center for Community Engagement & Collaboration supports workforce development in underserved areas of Kansas — Growing up on a farm in western Kansas, Christina Boyd has a passion for the state’s vast rural areas, even though she teases that the wind blows 50 miles per hour and the nearest Starbucks is an hour away. …