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Expanding Rural Access

University of Mississippi Medical Center

We use technology in all areas of our life. Think about it—in banking, in retail, or with travel. We are a tech-savvy population. Why don’t we leverage technology to transform health care?

—Dr. Kristi Henderson, UMMC

Five miles into the frantic race to the hospital, fourteen-year-old T. J. Brewer looked up from his stretcher in the back of the ambulance and told his mother and father that they had been great parents. He told them he loved them, and he told them goodbye. Bleeding profusely from a chest wound, T. J. was convinced that he would die from the shooting accident in the fields behind his house in rural Richton, Mississippi.

There was good reason for his fear: Perry County ...

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