S1 Ep14: Rural Healthcare's High-Tech Hope

Patients who live in rural areas face significant health challenges, from socioeconomic forces to care-delivery issues. The problems all add mean one thing: Rural healthcare is in rough shape. The stories of two children facing life-threatening injuries highlight what's at stake. But our guest, William Paiva, PhD, is using a sprawling data set, algorithms, and high-tech tools to flip the status quo. He's the executive director for Oklahoma State University's Center for Health Systems Innovation, and he's trying to make the Sooner State the Silicon Valley of Health Data Analytics—and rural medicine.

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