Wyoming Telehealth Newsletters aim to inform and educate people about event happening in healthcare and telehealth!

This Newsletter includes:

• Provider Spotlight
• Intro to Telehealth for Rural Areas
• Wyoming Updates Telepsychology Rules
• Wyoming Bill Trackers
• AvaSure and Equum Medical Expand Partnership to Deliver Physician-Led Virtual Care
• Utah's Innovative AI Policy
• Eastern Montana Telemedicine Network Boosts Outcomes

Provider Spotlight

Dr. Lynn S. Horton is a board-certified family physician based in Northwest Wyoming. After 40 years of cumulative experience providing primary care in a variety of settings, including outpatient clinical practice, urgent care, emergency medicine, and as an inpatient hospitalist, Dr. Horton shifted her focus toward preventative, personalized medicine. In January 2025 she opened Wisdom Health, LLC, in Powell, WY. The mission of Wisdom Health is to address and heal the root causes of chronic symptoms and illness.

Lynn S. Horton, MD 

Dr. Horton tailors her patient’s healthcare to their unique genetic makeup, environment, and lifestyle. She incorporates evidence-based research on cellular functions, metabolism, nutrition, stress management, and restorative sleep into her highly personalized and unique treatment plan. Areas of special interest include prediabetes and diabetes; anxiety and depression; obesity and gut issues; perimenopause and menopause; chronic inflammation and toxin exposure.  

Dr. Horton believes that by incorporating small, doable practices into their lifestyle, people not only feel and function better, but also reduce their risk of heart disease, stroke, diabetes, cancer, and autoimmune disease. “Our body has evolved to heal itself effectively, as long as we support that healing with the right tools,” Dr. Horton says. She passionately believes that being an effective healer requires a role model who practices self-care. Dr. Horton prioritizes ongoing education to optimize and provide best practice guidelines in Functional Medicine. In addition to maintaining board certification in Family Medicine, she has obtained additional education and training in Integrative Psychiatry; she is currently working on her certificate in Personalized Medicine.  

Last spring, after obtaining certification as a Fast Like a Girl lifestyle coach, Dr. Horton utilized the Wyoming Telehealth Network’s Zoom licenses to teach educational, virtual classes on nutrition and lifestyle, and the impact of incorporating small, intentional health practices to optimize health and metabolism. In her first year of practice, Dr. Horton taught a total of six virtual classes and expanded her practice to 1:1 meetings with her personalized medicine clients. 

Outside of her work with telehealth, Dr. Horton and her husband, rancher and farmer Rod Morrison, own and operate a certified organic farm, agri-tourism and wellness retreat space on Heart Mountain located between Cody and Powell, WY.  

Thank you for your commitment to telehealth excellence, Dr. Horton – we’re excited to see your reach continue to grow. 

Intro to Telehealth for Rural Areas

The Center for Connected Health Policy (CCHP) found that many states have updated their telehealth policies since the release of its annual 50-State Telehealth Policy Report, and Wyoming is among them. Late last year, Wyoming updated its ethics rules for psychologists who provide care via telehealth. Under Wyoming law, telepsychology is defined as “the delivery of psychological services using telecommunication technologies.” Psychologists who use telepsychology are required to educate themselves on the potential impact telepsychology may have on their patients and to complete continuing education specific to telepsychology. These requirements ensure that psychologists providing services via telehealth meet the same standard of care as those delivering in-person services.A direct and compelling headline

Wyoming Bill Trackers

The Wyoming Women's Foundation (WYWF) has released a bill tracker that highlights legislation the WYWF advisory board and staff have hand-picked based on issues they believe are most important to Wyomingites.

This bill tracker includes a brief description of each bill, its current status in the legislative process, and an explanation of why it matters. Users can also click directly on each bill to view the state of the bill on the Wyoming bill tracker website. This tool is a great resource for anyone who wants to stay informed about state legislation. While it includes bills that affect health care, the WYWF tracker also covers legislation related to education, representation, childcare, and income development.

The Wyoming Governor's Council on Developmental Disabilities(WGCDD) also offers a bill tracker focused on legislation that directly or indirectly impacts people with developmental disabilities and their families. This tracker also provides summaries explaining how each bill could affect the disability community. One key difference between the WGCDD and WYWF bill trackers is that the WGCDD tracker clearly identifies each bill’s sponsor.

Together, these bill trackers provide valuable insight for both providers and patients who want to better understand what’s happening in Wyoming’s state government.

AvaSure and Equum Medical Expand Partnership to Deliver Physician-Led Virtual Care

AvaSure and Equum Medical expands their partnership bringing physician-led virtual care. This includes services such as specialty consults, virtual ICU (eICU), and virtual hospitalist coverage onto AvaSure’s enterprise virtual care platform. Rather than adding separate telehealth point solutions, the collaboration integrates Equum’s clinical workforce and service lines into a single platform already used by many hospitals for virtual nursing and patient observation.

This approach is designed to help health systems address workforce shortages, reduce unnecessary transfers, retain higher-acuity patients, and protect contribution margin while improving access to specialized care. Leaders from both organizations highlight that the combined solution allows hospitals to extend specialty and high-acuity coverage without rebuilding their technology stack, while keeping patients local and supporting downstream revenue. The platform is built with strong security, EHR interoperability, standardized workflows, and analytics to support smart hospital strategies over time. The companies plan joint outreach and educational efforts in 2026, including presentations at HIMSS, to help health systems evaluate and expand physician-led virtual care across their inpatient operations.

Utah's Innovative AI Policy

Utah will become the first state to evaluate the safety of autonomous AI for prescription renewals for chronic conditions. The Utah Department of Commerce’s Office of Artificial Intelligence Policy announced a first-of-its-kind partnership with Doctronic, the AI-native health platform, to give patients with chronic conditions a faster, automated way to renew medications. 

Eastern Montana Telemedicine Network Boosts Outcomes

Living in rural places like Montana or Wyoming can come with some serious challenges. One of them is limited access to mental and behavioral health care. Both states rank poorly in national mental health measures, with high rates of depression, anxiety, and suicide, while facing severe provider shortages. More than 70% of rural counties nationwide lack a psychiatrist, and in Montana, roughly 60% of residents live in designated mental health professional shortage areas. Geography, cost barriers, stigma, and long travel distances leave many residents without the care they need. As recently as 2025, nearly all of Montana’s counties were still classified as shortage areas, underscoring how persistent and widespread the crisis remains.

For more than three decades, the Eastern Montana Telemedicine Network, anchored by Billings Clinic, has helped bridge this gap through a hub-and-spoke telehealth model connecting patients across Montana and northern Wyoming. Since the COVID-19 pandemic, direct-to-patient telehealth has transformed access even further, allowing individuals to receive care from home and dramatically reducing wait times. Telepsychiatry now supports outpatient visits, inpatient settings, and more than 30 partner facilities, making geography far less of a barrier.  

Additional Special Interest Group Meetings

Special interest groups are facilitated by the WyTN to improve collaboration, education, and communication for distinct groups and fields in regards to telehealth. They allow for tangible support on specific needs and access to a network of champions and experts. Each group fosters their own goals to help improve their practices.



Telemental Health



Second Friday of the month

March 13, 2026

11:00am - 12:00pm



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Community Health & Chronic Disease Prevention



Second Tuesday of the month

March 10, 2026

11:00am - 12:00pm

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Hospital



Third Tuesday of the month

March 17, 2026

12:00pm - 1:00pm

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Check out the Special Interest Group webpages!



Here you'll find SIG-specific updates, agendas, minutes, and education opportunities.