Opportunities to Address Specialty Care Deserts and the Digital Divide through the Veterans Health Administration’s Telehealth Hub-and-Spoke Cardiology Clinic: Retrospective Cohort Study
Rebecca Lauren Tisdale, Colin Purmal, Neil Kalwani, Alexander Sandhu, Paul Heidenreich, Donna Zulman, Tanvir Hussain, Andrew Coristine, Claudia Der-Martirosian, Benoit Tyl, Chelle L Wheat · 2024
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Rebecca Tisdale leads a team of eleven in a 2024 study of video heart care for veterans in far places. Many rural veterans live in specialty care deserts, far from a heart doctor. The VA's answer is a hub-and-spoke clinic: a central team serves small sites by video across a wide region.
Records from mid 2021 to early 2023 cover the Sierra Pacific region, from northern California to Pacific islands. The team tracked how use grew and who used the hub versus plain local care. Traits like distance and web access were weighed, probing whether the hub also bridges the digital divide or widens it.
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| CREATOR | Rebecca Lauren Tisdale, Colin Purmal, Neil Kalwani, Alexander Sandhu, Paul Heidenreich, Donna Zulman, Tanvir Hussain, Andrew Coristine, Claudia Der-Martirosian, Benoit Tyl, Chelle L Wheat |
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| YEAR | 2024 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 33 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |