Registration open for the 10th annual Kentucky Rural Telehealth Summit
HAZARD, Ky. (Aug. 14, 2025) — The University of Kentucky Center of Excellence in Rural Health (CERH) will host the 10th Annual Kentucky Rural Telehealth Summit on Sept. 25 at the Administrative Office of the Courts in Frankfort, Ky.
Keynote speakers will include John Langefeld, M.D., commissioner of the Kentucky Department for Public Health, and Bruce Scott, M.D., past president of the American Medical Association, as well as other honored guests.
Attendees can choose from a variety of informative sessions, including:
- No Money Left Behind: A Success Story and Strategy to Offer Chronic Care Management Services
- Integrating Virtual Health into the Post-Acute Setting
- Utilizing Telehealth to Increase Access for Students
- Facility-to-Facility Telehealth is Critical for Complex Patients
- Winning Trust: Cultivating Clinician and Family Buy-in for Teletherapy Services
- Utilizing Virtual Technology to Treat Patients with Neurodevelopmental Disabilities: Techniques for Successful Appointments
- ECO-ROADS: Enhancing COPD outcomes — RPM, Pulse Oximetry, and Direct Billable Clinical Services
- Treating Hepatitis C in Syringe Service Programs in Kentucky
- Impact and Satisfaction of Offering Brief Psychological Telehealth Interventions in a Multidisciplinary Orofacial Pain Setting
“The Kentucky Rural Telehealth Summit brings together telehealth stakeholders from across the Commonwealth to help those that wish to begin telehealth, others that wish to improve their telehealth services and to engage with other telehealth stakeholders from across Kentucky to share their experiences and expertise for everyone’s benefit,” said UK TeleCare Director Robert Sprang. “We showcase the outstanding work that is being done in Kentucky while engaging national experts to highlight telehealth models that have yet to be deployed here. The summit also has an expert panel to present and discuss the legal and regulatory issues that face telehealth providers.”
The links for general registration, students and exhibitors can be found here. Registered attendees of the annual summit also receive exclusive access to future telehealth webinars that are offered throughout the year. The summit agenda will be posted soon.
Watch video highlights from last year’s summit.
Questions about the event can be directed to Wayne Noble (wayne.noble@uky.edu, 606-439-3557).
The University of Kentucky Center of Excellence in Rural Health was established by state legislation in 1990 to address health disparities in rural Kentucky and the unique challenges faced by our communities. The mission was and still is today to improve the health and wellbeing of rural Kentuckians. For more than three decades, the Center has partnered with communities, providers, students and individuals to provide health professions education, health policy research, health care service and community engagement toward reaching this mission.
As the state’s flagship, land-grant institution, the University of Kentucky exists to advance the Commonwealth. We do that by preparing the next generation of leaders — placing students at the heart of everything we do — and transforming the lives of Kentuckians through education, research and creative work, service and health care. We pride ourselves on being a catalyst for breakthroughs and a force for healing, a place where ingenuity unfolds. It's all made possible by our people — visionaries, disruptors and pioneers — who make up 200 academic programs, a $476.5 million research and development enterprise and a world-class medical center, all on one campus.