Tuba City
Embraces
Telehealth
for Diabetes
Prevention
and Care
By D o m i ni k a He u s i nk v e l d
on
May 21, 2015
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screenings regularly, and must come in
n rural areas, telemedicine offers
for medication refills. All of these trips
patients the opportunity to get
place a huge burden on patients, due to
specialty health services and physician
both time and transportation expenses.
consultations without the need for
extensive travel. Rural telemedicine
A new project at Tuba City Regional
may be the great equalizer for rural
Healthcare Corporation (TCRHCC) is
populations, which typically experience
expanding our telehealth services to
reduced services and less favorable
include telenutrition
health outcomes
and screening
compared to
services for patients
populations served
Telemedicine may be
with diabetes, and
by large medical
hope