In Kingman, Ariz., a windswept city of 35,000 at the eastern edge of the Mojave desert, data scientists are hard to come by. The local health clinic lacks a stable internet connection and does not have the necessary software to support the latest artificial intelligence technology. Despite this, the clinic, North Country HealthCare, faces complex health issues among its patients that could benefit from AI assistance.
The clinic’s clinicians are overwhelmed and have limited resources to deal with bureaucratic battles with insurers or administrative tasks. Comparable academic hospitals with better data systems are able to leverage AI for these tasks, but North Country HealthCare lacks the capacity to do so.
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