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Patients wary of governments, companies pushing AI as a rural health care solution

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Two of the nation's most powerful health officials predict artificial intelligence will play a key role in solving rural America's health challenges. Health secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. told a panel of U.S. senators that AI nurses can provide "concierge care" to rural patients. Dr. Mehmet Oz, who leads the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, has said "the best way to help some of these communities is going to be AI-based avatars" that connect rural patients to mental health services.

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