{"id":5027,"date":"2022-11-21T08:30:00","date_gmt":"2022-11-21T14:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/healthfund.org\/a\/?p=5027"},"modified":"2023-01-11T17:20:05","modified_gmt":"2023-01-11T23:20:05","slug":"bbthforum22","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/healthfund.org\/a\/bbthforum22\/","title":{"rendered":"Broadband Access and Telehealth Policy Forum"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Kansas workers, health providers and employers increasingly rely on broadband access for their jobs, health care and enterprises.\u00a0Held December 12 in Topeka, \u201cBroadband Access and Telehealth: Exploring Policy Approaches for Kansas\u201d engaged state policymakers, hospital and health system leaders, insurers and rural network directors during a presentation of recent studies and program developments followed by a policy leader panel offering perspectives on future broadband expansion and telehealth usage.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The program was hosted by the <a href=\"https:\/\/healthfund.org\">United Methodist Health Ministry Fund<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/reachhealth.org\">REACH Healthcare Foundation<\/a>, and the <a href=\"https:\/\/khi.org\">Kansas Health Institute<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Featured speakers:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>Jade Piros de Carvalho<\/strong>, Director of the Kansas Office of Broadband Development&nbsp;\u2013 Update on Kansas Broadband Plan and State Broadband Grants<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Dorothy Hughes, Ph.D., MHSA<\/strong>, University of Kansas School of Medicine \u2013 Consumer and Health Provider Perspectives on Telehealth<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Policy leader panel:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Kari Bruffett, President &amp; CEO, Kansas Health Institute<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Jennifer Findley, Vice President, Education &amp; Special Projects, Kansas Hospital Association<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Brock Slabach, Chief Operations Officer, National Rural Health Association<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Angie Strecker, Vice President, Provider Relations and Medical Economics, Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Kansas<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kansas workers, health providers and employers increasingly rely on broadband access for their jobs, health care and enterprises.\u00a0Held December 12 in Topeka, \u201cBroadband Access and Telehealth: Exploring Policy Approaches for Kansas\u201d engaged state policymakers, hospital and health system leaders, insurers and rural network directors during a presentation of recent studies and program developments followed by &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":5036,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5027","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/healthfund.org\/a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5027","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/healthfund.org\/a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/healthfund.org\/a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/healthfund.org\/a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/healthfund.org\/a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5027"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/healthfund.org\/a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5027\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5068,"href":"https:\/\/healthfund.org\/a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5027\/revisions\/5068"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/healthfund.org\/a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5036"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/healthfund.org\/a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5027"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/healthfund.org\/a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5027"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/healthfund.org\/a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5027"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}