mHealth Intelligence
Senators Target Telehealth Access for Farmers, Loggers and Fishermen
By Eric Wicklund
June 16, 2020 - Lawmakers are looking to extend telehealth into rural parts of America to improve access for people in need of mental health services.
A group of Senators last week...
Breitbart
GOP Senators Say Mississippi Statues at U.S. Capitol, State’s Flag, Are State’s Business
By Penny Starr
Republican Senators from Mississippi were pressed to speak about House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s (D-CA) letter to the Joint Committee on the Library on June 10 asking that 11 statues of...
WJTV-TV Jackson
U.S. senators on Confederate monuments at U.S. Capitol and Mississippi’s state flag
NEWS
JACKSON, Miss. (WJTV) – In the wake of recent protests over police brutality and racism, some Confederate monuments across the country have been removed and relocated.
House Speaker Nancy...
WZFG Radio Fargo, N.D.
Cramer, Colleagues Call For Permanent Expansion Of Telehealth Following COVID-19 Pandemic
By Chris Larson
U.S. Senators Brian Schatz (D-Hawai‘i) and Roger Wicker (R-Miss.) led a bipartisan group of 30 senators in calling for the expansion of access to telehealth services...
Waterways Journal
Trump Signs Order To Reduce Regulatory Delays
By Jim Myers
Washington, D.C.—President Donald Trump, who has made regulatory reform a hallmark of his administration, signed another executive order directing federal agencies, including those important to the waterways industry, to...
WSAZ-TV Huntington, W.Va.
More support to award Woody Williams with Presidential Medal of Freedom
By WSAZ News Staff
HUNTINGTON, W.Va. (WSAZ) -- Another elected official is putting his support behind the effort to award Hershel "Woody" Williams with the Presidential Medal of Freedom.
According...
Northern Ag Network
Expanding Mental Health Services In Rural America
By Leif Bakken
WASHINGTON—U.S. Sens. Mike Rounds (R-S.D.) and Tina Smith (D-Minn.) led a bipartisan group of senators to introduce legislation to expand telemental health services in rural areas. The Home-Based Telemental...
Y’all Politics
U.S. Senate Judiciary sends Wilson’s 5th Circuit nomination to full Senate with confirmation likely
By Frank Corder
On a party-line vote of 12-10, the U.S. Senate Committee on the Judiciary passed the nomination of Mississippi’s Cory Wilson for a seat on the United States Fifth...
WTOK-TV Meridian
COVID-19 relief funds designated for hospitals
By WTOK Staff
WASHINGTON (WTOK) - The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services has awarded over $219 million in Provider Relief Funds to Mississippi hospitals. The funds are intended to help “safety net” hospitals that serve a...
Choctaw Plaindealer
FCC Grant Gives Boost To Center For Telehealth’s COVID-19 Care
By Submitted
JACKSON, Miss. – The Center for Telehealth at the University of Mississippi Medical Center is using a $1 million federal grant to speed expansion of services to meet the changing needs of patients...
