AI is becoming the exclusive province of academic medicine. A new initiative aims to change that Casey Ross By Casey Ross April 29, 2024

https://www.statnews.com/2024/04/29/health-ai-partnership-practice-network-duke-university/?utm_campaign=morning_rounds&utm_medium=email&_hsenc=p2ANqtz-_MfrqVoVFQZqHxzILwQtKomnECMWzrh9NVVj0yxmS5m5AbO8eo1xzeISXQ9HcbIZfZD9Sm_zdECpXsscEp6zWkPCyEXA&_hsmi=304722775&utm_content=304722775&utm_source=hs_email In the small, desert town of Kingman, Ariz., there is little time for the local health clinic to support bureaucratic battles with insurers or keep up with administrative tasks. There’s also little money for artificial intelligence tools to handle some of those tasks, like richer academic hospitals with better data systems can. But that could change if the Kingman clinic becomes part of the Practice Network, a group that aims to help smaller providers implement AI tools in settings where adoption is often stymied by technical and financial challenges. Participants accepted to the program will spend a year working with experts to test AI tools and incorporate them into their software systems and work routines. And with eight rural hospital closures across the U.S. in 2023 and another 700 at risk due to financial distress, the stakes are high. Read more from STAT’s Casey Ross on what it takes to bring AI into rural clinics. https://www.statnews.com/2024/04/25/health-ai-large-language-models-clinical-documentation/?utm_campaign=morning_rounds&utm_medium=email&_hsenc=p2ANqtz-9WBRz6Vu_Gx5LfJ52U8bVmWNOecUS4QmRTVI7tEF5B8QLlHZVziXoQU2LcNDiMKXmZ-Dd0qxfDbHjzAI0-AKpg3Z5fKw&_hsmi=304722775&utm_content=304722775&utm_source=hs_email