The Arkansas Rural Health Partnership (ARHP), Inc. along with its partner facilities are teaming up to treat patients presenting to local emergency rooms with behavioral health disorders via telemedicine. The project launched in late October and is well underway in providing services patients who have historically been backlogged in emergency rooms while waiting for treatment […]

Schools in Arkansas are seeing the benefits of telemedicine and the impact that it’s having on keeping their kids healthy. With the recent changes in the telehealth laws, allowing schools to be the originating site for patients, it has opened up quality services for kids who otherwise would not have access to the mental health […]

The UAMS College of Health Professions has joined forces with the UAMS Center for Distance Health to promote healthy eating by utilizing technology.    CHP Instructor, Christi Arthur, and Registered Dietitian, Sabrina Spencer helped launch the HealthyNOW! Program for the 2018\2019 school year on 8 campuses in 4 school districts around the state of Arkansas.   Arthur […]

With the baby boomer population continuing to rise, it is more important than ever to ensure this population has access to healthcare.   It is estimated that by 2029 the population of those over the age of 65 will be just over 71-million and will make up 20 percent of the total US population which will […]

More than half of obese fifth through eighth graders in the Magazine School District reduced their obesity in the last year after participating in a program by the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) Center for Distance Health. The program is part of the School Telemedicine in Arkansas (STAR) program that began in 2016 […]