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Telemedicine in Mississippi

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Mississippi has been an early adopter of telemedicine beginning in 2003 with the introduction of real-time, tele-emergency service connecting trauma clinicians at the University of Mississippi Medical Center with rural emergency departments throughout the state. Mississippi continues to be a national leader in the adoption and innovative application of telemedicine.

FIGURE 1. AVERAGE STATE GRADES IN ADOPTION OF TELEMEDICINE POLICY, 2016.

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The Center for Mississippi Health Policy has produced an issue brief that provides an overview of the current state … Read more...

Sustaining Mississippi’s Trauma Care System

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Mississippi has enacted policies that are considered a model for trauma system development by other states. Much of the success of Mississippi’s system is derived from a stable funding structure established in statute. Recent statutory changes threaten to weaken this structure. The Center for Mississippi Health Policy has prepared an issue brief that summarizes the impact of these changes and explores options for strengthening funding for the system.

Background

In 2008, the Mississippi Legislature enacted HB 1405, providing a … Read more...

Implementing Sex-Related Education in Mississippi Public Schools

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In 2011, the Mississippi Legislature enacted a law (§37-13-171 et seq.) that required each local school board to adopt an abstinence-only or abstinence-plus policy on sex-related education (SRE) and to implement an SRE curriculum beginning in the 2012-13 school year.  This law is scheduled to expire July 1, 2016, unless the Legislature takes action to extend the act.

Since enactment of the law in 2011, the Center for Mississippi Health Policy has conducted several studies designed to provide information to … Read more...

Academic Health Centers: Governance Models and UMMC

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Academic Health Centers (AHCs) have a unique challenge in effectively and simultaneously meeting the demands of all three areas of their mission: education, research, and patient care. In particular, AHCs must adapt quickly to the rapidly evolving and complex health care system in order to remain competitive, and their governance structures, leadership, and policies must facilitate such nimbleness.  AHCs nationally have struggled to find the most appropriate structure to meet their particular needs, and a number of governance models exist.… Read more...

Rural Hospitals: Economic and Health Implications in Mississippi

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The healthcare delivery and financing systems in the United States are evolving rapidly, and the impact on small rural hospitals is made evident by increasingly common news of closures or employee layoffs.  Since 2010, 58 rural hospitals have closed nationally, mostly in the South, including two in Mississippi.  Another 283 hospitals nationwide have been identified as “vulnerable,” with 22 of those in Mississippi.  As a percentage of all rural hospitals in the state, Mississippi has the highest proportion of its … Read more...