Telehealth in Rural Hospitals: Lessons Learned from Pennsylvania

CJ Rhoads

Jul 2017 · CRC Press

About this ebook

Improving the quality of healthcare, while increasing accessibility and lowering costs, is a complex dilemma facing rural communities around the world. The Center for Rural Pennsylvania believed that telehealth, the use of electronic information and telecommunications technologies to support long-distance clinical healthcare was a viable solution s

About the author

Dr. C.J. Rhoads is a sought-after speaker, consultant, author, and expert in many different aspects of business. She has been recognized by her community with several awards and honors including the Athena Leadership award, one of Pennsylvania’s Top Women in Business, Lehigh Valley’s Most Influential Women, Kutztown University’s College of Business Top Researcher of the Year, and many others.

Currently, she is president and CEO of HPL Consortium, Inc., which develops technology tools to help people achieve health, prosperity, and leadership. She is also the managing director of HPL 501c3 Institute, which provides those tools to small groups and nonprofits at a reduced fee so that they can help underserved populations achieve and establish health, prosperity, and leadership as quickly and as efficiently as possible no matter how much technical expertise they hold.

Rhoads is also a professor in the College of Business at Kutztown University, where she teaches graduate and undergraduate courses in entrepreneurship and information technology.