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Rural Americans face a higher risk of developing and succumbing to deadly chronic conditions like heart disease, cancer, and diabetes. Caring for this population poses a perennial problem for healthcare providers as these high-risk patients face numerous barriers to accessing the healthcare that they need. As virtual and home-based care options emerge, healthcare stakeholders are evaluating the best approaches to enhancing chronic disease management in rural areas.To this end, virtual specialty care provider Access TeleCare and the UT Southwestern Medical Center announced in March that they are launching a two-year project to assess care for heart failure patients in rural communities nationwide. The project involves creating a rural heart failure patient registry to document patterns of care and conducting a home-based cardiac rehabilitation program pilot.
Heart failure refers to a condition in which the heart isn’t pumping as well as it should. According to an article published in the Journal of Cardiac Failure in 2023, approximately 6.7 million Americans over 20 have heart failure. The prevalence is expected to rise to 8.5 million Americans by 2030.Ghosh explained that Access TeleCare and UT Southwestern researchers will first create a list of patients with a diagnosis of congestive heart failure who were hospitalized. They will examine de-identified data from these patients’ charts weekly to assess whether suitable therapies were used while the patients were in an inpatient setting and whether they were discharged with an appropriate treatment plan.
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