During the interrogation confirming on Wednesday before the Senate Financial Committee Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the controversial choice of Trump for the purpose of conducting health and human service, said that rural hospitals would be a priority if he was confirmed as a health secretary.
Kennedy told the committee that President Trump was determined to end the “hemorrhage of rural hospitals” using artificial intelligence and telemedicine, and that he asked Kennedy to solve this problem or be confirmed.
“These are innovations that I saw one day in Cleveland Clinic, who developed a nurse AI, who cannot be distinguished from a man who has diagnostics as good as every doctor.”
Kennedy added: “We can care for the consistency to every American in this country, even a distant part of Wyoming, Montana and Alaska.”
He said that there were possibilities to provide staff with rural hospitals and that he intends to utilize their power because he saw the priority that the issue of rural hospitals gave both Democrats and Republicans in this committee.
“I’m going to make this priority if I have the honor to be confirmed,” said Kennedy.
Kennedy’s comments were the answer to the questionsM Senator John Barrasso, R-Wyw., In relation to financial challenges and workforce, which hospitals in rural communities are facing.
Greater trend
According to American Hospital Association (AHA)IN rural hospitals Low patient volumes make them challenging to manage high fixed costs associated with hospital running.
As a result, AHA claims that rural facilities are susceptible to market policies and changes as well as cuts of Medicare and Medicaid payments.
According to AHA, the recent economic slowdown has exerted additional pressure on rural hospitals, because they already operate with tiny balance sheets and have more difficulties than larger organizations of obtaining capital to invest in state-of-the-art equipment or renovation of venerable facilities.
Adding to these challenges, Aha notices that country Americans are more uninsured, they have lower income and are medium older and less fit than Americans living in metropolitan areas.
The Trump administration has committed AI to be promoted in healthcare. Last week, President Donald Trump announced Creating Project Stargate, investments at least $ 500 billion in order to build physical and virtual infrastructure to power AI, including “colossal data centers” and campuses throughout the country. One of his goals is to improve health results.