Extending health care access via telemedicine in public libraries.

Background: Despite the potential for telemedicine in public libraries to expand health care access to those living a long distance from care and in broadband poor areas, there are few libraries that collaborate with providers to extend access.

Purpose: To explore licensed health care providers' perspectives on telemedicine in public libraries as a method of improving equitable access to care for populations lacking the ability to connect to telemedicine from home.

Methods: We used a two-phase explanatory sequential mixed methods design with a quantitative strand followed by a qualitative strand.