Alabama’s Gov. Robert Bentley established a 38-member task force made up of representatives from academia, the insurance industry, the medical field and state agency leaders to look at the use of telemedicine and extending medical resources to rural areas, according to an executive order signed Monday.
Dubbed the Alabama Health Care Improvement Task Force, Bentley said in an announcement Monday that the state’s problems with chronic conditions and other medical issues prevalent across the state encouraged him to create the task force to address the options of improving healthcare across the state.
