Summary
7. PROJECT SUMMARY The 60 million rural dwellers across the United States are older, more likely to live in poverty, and more likely to be either underinsured or uninsured compared to their urban counterparts. Moreover, the 240,000 rural patients with end stage kidney disease (ESKD) have less access to nephrology care, are less likely to finish pre-kidney transplant evaluation, and are less likely to undergo kidney transplantation. Telehealth is uniquely positioned to overcome geographic barriers of rural America by capitalizing on electronic information and telecommunication technologies. Yet
