Opinion
Overview For rural Ohioans, getting medical help can mean a long journey before care even begins. While people living near a city may have access to many care points, from a local CVS to a full hospital, rural Ohioans may need to travel long distances to reach proper care. Shortages
Numbers
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2026-27 Capstone
This conjecture, Arriving Soon?, is based on the article Cleveland Clinic’s 900-person AI summit signals a new buying cycle for patient routing systems from my Special Interest section. It examines how AI “Digital Front Doors” could make a large impact in health centers: “Managed Healthcare Executive reported that
Arts & Lifestyle
Art Sync is designed to help patients participate in art based activities when away from a health center. This concept is based on multiple elements of research through my Arts & Lifestyle section: “An Ohio State College of Medicine art show allows students, residents, faculty and staff of Ohio State&
Science & Tech
AED+ is an effort to combine modern vision detection and the ChatCPR technologies. As the conjecture for my Science + Tech section, I found that CPR and AED technology is being advanced with the introduction of AI. Here are some excerpts from the article AI-Powered CPR Coach Outperforms 911 Dispatchers
Special Interest
Tiago Jesus is an Assistant Professor at Ohio State, in the School of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences. He focuses on Health Systems & Services Research and both global and local (e.g., rural) disability & rehabilitation disparities (The Ohio State University School of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences, n.d.). I
Business
Sattlehealth is my idea for a system integrating traditional telehealth apps like MyChart with the existing iPhone Satellite Messaging system. This serves as my business conjecture in my newspaper. Rather than trying to invent fully new hardware and technology to communicate between rural healthcare patients and health centers, the technology
Special Interest
Patrick Sours is an assistant professor at The Ohio State University whose work focuses on sustainable development engineering, humanitarian engineering, and water infrastructure. His work has included community-based projects involving water systems and infrastructure in international settings (The Ohio State University Center for Latin American Studies, n.d.; The
Science & Tech
“The study, published in JAMA Internal Medicine, first benchmarks popular AI models on CPR instruction and then introduces ChatCPR, an open-source AI agent that scored 100% on guideline-based CPR checklists and significantly outperformed human dispatchers when tested against recordings from previous real 911 calls” (University of California San
Science & Tech
“Starting in September, if someone in Clemmons, North Carolina, calls 911 to report a cardiac arrest, the first responder on the scene may be a drone carrying an automated external defibrillator, or AED. ‘The idea is for the drone to get there several minutes before first responders,’ such as an
Science & Tech
“Outfitted with solar panels, battery packs, and a fuel cell powered by green hydrogen, Santa Barbara County’s newest disaster response service is an environmentally friendly nanogrid on wheels” (Fausey, 2023). “On the outside, the $200,000 trailer boasts the slogan ‘Serving Santa Barbara County Using Renewable Energy,’ and it
Science & Tech
“In emergency departments (EDs), triage nurses are under tremendous daily pressure to rapidly assess the acuity level of patients and log the collected information into computers. With self-service technologies, patients could complete data entry on their own, allowing nurses to focus on higher-order tasks. Kiosks are a popular