Rural Health AI Hub

A statewide center of excellence for evaluating, piloting, and scaling AI tools that improve care quality, reduce administrative burden, and support clinical decision making in rural and underserved settings.

Most rural organizations already have AI running somewhere in the building, often as features their software vendor turned on. The Hub's first job is to help you know what you have, decide what you want, and put a person in charge of it. The second is to make sure Maine's rural providers learn from each other instead of each starting from zero.

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WHO WE WORK WITH

The Hub serves care teams and administrators, including the patient side of AI adoption (consent, education, and engagement), rather than leaving it to each organization alone.

  • Rural and critical access hospitals
  • Federally qualified health centers
  • Rural health clinics and primary care
  • Behavioral health and SUD providers
  • Skilled nursing and long-term care
  • EMS and public health
  • Tribal health centers
  • Schools and community partners

News & Developments

Health AI Partnership (HAIP) at Duke healthaipartnership.org

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Utah Approves 1st AI Pilot to Issue Initial Prescriptions beckershospitalreview.com

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How athenaOne’s Native Ambient AI Saves Two Workdays Monthly Per Clinician hitconsultant.net

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Implementation of Ambient AI Scribes in Hospitals: Lessons for Healthcare Leadership, Governance, and Change Management dovepress.com

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2026 Physician Survey on Augmented Intelligence (PDF) ama-assn.org

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Maine Artificial Intelligence Task Force Report (PDF) maine.gov

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Technical Assistance & Contact

Support for AI Hub initiatives

MCD Global Health is the technical assistance partner for RHTP AI Hub.

Technical assistance will help healthcare organizations with questions and challenges related to AI planning and implementation.

Need help?

A technical assistance request process will be available soon. Until that process is available, please send questions to: Andrew Solomon.

Acknowledgement of Funding: This program is supported by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) as part of a financial assistance award totaling $190,008,051 with 100 percent funded by CMS/HHS. The contents are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily represent the official views of, nor an endorsement, by CMS/HHS, or the U.S. Government.