SALT LAKE CITY, Utah — Intermountain Health, a not-for-profit healthcare system with 385 clinics and 33 hospitals in the Intermountain West, has partnered with Microsoft, Gates Ventures, Epic and West Health to tackle the nation’s rural healthcare crisis. The coalition aims to improve rural healthcare through technology, operations and policy.
“The current challenges facing rural Americans are sobering and the current system is unsustainable,” said Dan Liljenquist, Intermountain Health’s chief strategy officer in a company statement. “Our coalition is fully invested in understanding those challenges so we can deliver solutions that help people live the healthiest lives possible for generations.”
The coalition’s findings and proposed solutions were outlined in a white paper which utilized evidence-based research and data…