The Rural Iowa Telehealth Initiative has been extremely successful in achieving their goal of utilizing video conferencing technology to connect outlying rural areas to centralized facilities in Iowa. Each of their partner facilities has embraced the video conferencing technology, and has put it to use in their own way. This technology is being used not only to provide virtual face-to-face consultations between patients and doctors, but also to improve collaborations for disaster preparation through virtual command centers, and to educate students of all ages in the surrounding communities.
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