Rural Hospital Care Delivery Analysis

Background Rural hospitals have been facing significant financial health challenges, which have implications for delivering care to the local community and offering care closer to home. 114 rural hospitals stopped offering inpatient services or ceased operation altogether between 2010-2019. In many cases, rural hospitals stopped offering specialty services which led to patients having to travel to urban areas to receive care. With narrow and negative operating margins, it is imperative that these hospitals optimize the delivery of care to their local communities. What we offer As a startup tech company, we offer innovative Telepresence solutions in healthcare to bring care close to home and remote geographic barriers to receiving healthcare. We aim to bring primary and emergency healthcare services to rural and remote areas using simple and affordable smart glasses software solutions to give community nurses and general practitioners access to real-time over-the-shoulder expert and specialist advice using augmented reality and artificial intelligence. Building capacity and expanding expertise. Project goal Using Healthcare Cost Report Information System (HCRIS) and other data sources, we are looking to analyze rural hospital revenue streams and billing practices to identify where our technology can be implemented to improve efficiency (cost-saving) and expand capacity and service offerings (increase revenue).