About the Center

The Rural Telehealth Research Center (RTRC) is focused on building the evidence base for telehealth, especially in rural settings. More specifically, RTRC is charged with advancing publicly available, high quality, impartial, clinically informed, and policy-relevant research. Rigorous research is needed to identify telehealth models that are affordable and sustainable, enhance rural access, and maintain and improve quality. The goal of RTRC is to conduct and disseminate research on rural telehealth that contributes to building a high-performance system in rural America. RTRC is a collaboration of the University of Iowa, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, and the University of Southern Maine.

RTRC is funded by the Office for the Advancement of Telehealth (OAT) in the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA), U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) under cooperative agreement number U3GRH40003. The funding supports this website as well as all publications and presentations advanced from listed research projects. These contents are solely the responsibility of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of HRSA or any other funding agency.