New App to Focus on Telementoring to Improve Rural Health Care

Waridibo Allison, MD, PhD, FACP, CPE, FIDSA

The Rural Telementoring Training Center, a federally funded program housed within the Center for Health Policy at The University of North Texas Health Science Center at Fort Worth has created a Quality Measure Toolkit App. The app can help teams interpret which aspects of their telementoring programming (staffing, content, technology, marketing) are strong, and which ones still have room to grow. This critical tool for program and design evaluation was developed based on findings from published literature and national experts.

“Our ultimate goal is to support and see health care telementoring that is measurably of high quality, delivered across America to benefit rural and other communities,” said Dr. Waridibo Allison, principal investigator and director of the Rural Telementoring Training Center.