Healthcare IT News December 30, 2025
Rural hospitals are overcoming fears of artificial intelligence and adopting tools that integrate with electronic health records on their own terms – whether that’s all at once, or by cultivating buy-in slowly and deliberately.
Small and rural providers often don’t have the resources to roll out sleek new operational enhancements, especially artificial intelligence capabilities. But those that do are finding that AI is helping improve key operational metrics and gaining staff enthusiasm – whether they implement the tools quickly or gradually.
We spoke recently with two rural hospitals that structured their AI integrations very differently. If financial considerations can sometimes be a barrier to adoption, their experiences and early results prove that even lesser-resourced organizations can successfully implement leading-edge technology...







