Research Grants

Funding For:

Defining the Digital Divide: Implications for Improving Access to Care

Health Equity


Recipient:

Wendy Brunner, Bassett Medical Center

Grant Period:

Jan 01, 2022 - Dec 31, 2022

AMOUNT:

$51,645.00

Summary of the Project:

This study will use a survey of patients, electronic medical records and key informant interviews to investigate the contextual factors that influence a person’s ability or preference to engage with telehealth technologies, contributing to the understanding of telehealth inequity in a rural population. Findings have the potential to improve health system processes and practices and inform telehealth policy.


Grantee Publications

Jan 2024

Examining differences in time to appointment and no-show rates between rural telehealth users and non-users

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Author: Kristin Pullyblank, Nicole Krupa, Melissa Scribani, Amanda Chapman, Megan Kern, and Wendy Brunner

Dec 2023

Exploring Multiple Dimensions of Access to and Preferences for Telehealth Use

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Author: Kristin Pullyblank, Melissa Scribani, Nicole Krupa, Amanda Chapman, Megan Kern, and Wendy Brunner

March 2023

Determinants of Telehealth Technologies in a Rural Population

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Author: Wendy Brunner, Kristin Pullyblank, Melissa Scribani, Nicole Krupa, Amanda Fink, Megan Kern