In what could become a powerful use-case for telehealth in rural states, Wyoming officials are expanding their new telehealth network to 37 hospitals for everything from mental health services to remote specialty consults, according to a recent announcement out of the University of Wyoming.
In particular, the state’s Medicaid office is getting behind a technology approach. In fact, James Bush, the Wyoming Department of Health’s Medicaid director, is the chair of the Wyoming Telehealth Consortium, one of the partners in the new network expansion. "Wyoming is custom-made for" telehealth, Bush told the
He wants to push the network into all of the state’s physician offices and community health centers, plus tie all of the state’s medical specialty practices into the electronic system.
