Improving the health and economic vitality of our rural communities through innovation.
An initiative of BioSTL.
Healthcare models that reinforce sick care (instead of well care) are outdated and do not encompass the drivers of health and economic vitality that have been left out for far too long.
Health and economic vitality take place at the local level. Empowering communities to access innovative solutions drives our work and prioritizes our actions.
We are leveraging cutting-edge healthcare solutions and positioning them to be used by communities.
The Center uses rural community buying power to reimagine care delivery through innovative health solutions, proposing that the money currently spent could be reallocated and applied to local economies to be used by community, for community.
Across Missouri’s 99 rural counties, there is nearly $18 billion spent annually on the cost of healthcare. The Center for Rural Health Innovation refers to this as rural Missouri’s buying power.
Babylon Health’s whole-person healthcare model serves as the digital front door to highly accessible care that makes primary care more accessible by ensuring it is available through the digital devices people already own. Read how two partners came together to deliver primary care to more than 8,000 Missourians.
Read More Details →The health of all Missourians has been a major focus of my administration. Innovation in rural health promises to solve some of our rural communities’ most challenging health issues by providing new technologies, new ways of thinking, new processes, and new systems. With health and economic success linked in so many ways, if we can improve the health of our rural residents, we can increase economic opportunity.
Governor Mike Parson
State of Missouri