IIn Kingman, Arizona, a windswept city of 35,000 people on the eastern edge of the Mojave Desert, data scientists are as rare as pouring rain. Local clinics don’t have reliable internet connections, much less software to support the latest and greatest artificial intelligence.
But the clinic, a federally qualified health center called North Country HealthCare, has many problems that AI can solve.
Patient health issues are complex and clinicians are exhausted. They don’t have the time or money to support bureaucratic battles with insurance companies or maintain administrative tasks that AI handles in better-equipped academic hospitals with better data systems.
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