Oklahoma Rise 25 in 25: RHTP Forum

Welcome to the Oklahoma Rise 25 and 25 RHTP podcast. In this episode, we take a deep dive into the Integrated Data and Analytics Initiative — the central, mission-critical component of Oklahoma’s Rural Health Transformation Program (RHTP). The hosts walk listeners through the strategy, funding, and operational priorities behind this effort. The conversation explains what the initiative is designed...

Welcome to the Oklahoma Rise 25 and 25 RHTP podcast. In this episode we take a deep operational dive into the Expanding Care Community Paramedicine (CP) Initiative — a $31,475,000, five-year investment aimed at transforming rural access to care across 59 Oklahoma counties. Hosts unpack the initiative's design and goals: rapidly scale a new community paramedicine workforce (training 60+ CPs per yea...

This episode takes a deep dive into the Rural Residency Programs Initiative — a strategic $54.98 million, five‑year investment led by the Oklahoma State Department of Health (OSDH) to establish six new rural residency programs in three high‑need specialties: surgery, psychiatry, and obstetrics & gynecology (OB‑GYN). The conversation covers the evidence base driving the strategy (physicians who...

Welcome to the Oklahoma Rise 25 and 25 RHTP podcast. In this episode we take a deep dive into the Community Health Worker (CHW) Expansion in Hospitals Initiative — a five-year, $10.8 million Rural Health Transformation Program investment designed to hire, train, and deploy 30 hospital-based CHWs across rural Oklahoma. You hosts conferred with RHTP Task Force experts and policy strategists to unpac...

Welcome to the Oklahoma RISE 25 and 25 RHTP podcast. In this episode Dr. Booth and guests from the Oklahoma RISE 25 and the Oklahoma State Department of Health (OSDH) take a deep dive into the Consumer‑Facing Technology for Chronic Disease Prevention and Management and Behavioral Health Initiative — a nearly $16 million, five‑year effort to meet rural Oklahomans where they already are: on their ph...

In this episode of the Oklahoma RISE 25 and 25 RHTP podcast. Today we take a deep dive into the Building Health Data Utility pillar of the Oklahoma Rural Health Transformation Program — specifically the $29,210,000 Health Information Exchange (HIE) interoperability initiative led by the Oklahoma Health Care Authority through its OKShine office. Covering all 77 counties and deployed across FY2026–F...

Welcome to the Oklahoma Rise 25 and 25 RHTP podcast. In this episode we take a deep dive into the EHR Expansion Initiative—the foundational $44.88 million, multi-year investment in certified electronic health records that the Oklahoma Healthcare Authority (OHCA) and the Oklahoma State Health Information Network Exchange (OKSHINE) are coordinating to close the state’s rural digital divide. Topics c...

Welcome to the Oklahoma Rise 25 RHTP podcast. In this Deep Dive episode, hosts and policy experts from the Oklahoma RISE 25 and 25 RHTP Task Force unpack the practice enablement support profile that sits at the heart of Oklahoma’s Rural Health Transformation Program: a $32,050,000, five-year investment to shift rural primary care from fee-for-service to value-based care. Topics covered include the...

In this episode of the RHTP podcast hosts unpack the Primary Care Provider Clinical Extension Models — a five‑year, $37+ million initiative designed to solve the operational capacity crisis in rural primary care. We walk through the program’s strategic rationale, its high‑risk Medicaid and dual‑eligible focus, and why OHCA is the lead agency driving a plan explicitly tied to value‑based care perfo...

In this detailed episode we unpack Oklahoma’s Chronic Disease Prevention and Management (CDPM) program — a $39,450,000, five‑year investment (FY2026–FY2031) led by the Oklahoma State Department of Health (OSDH) as part of the Rural Health Transformation Programs (RHTP) Moving Upstream strategy. We trace how the initiative aims to shift care from reactive, high‑cost interventions to prevention and...

Welcome to the Oklahoma Rise 25 and 25 RHDP podcast. This podcast is a production of the Oklahoma Rise 25 and 25 RHDP Task Force, an independent Oklahoma-led collaborative focused on turning one of the most significant rural health investments in our state's history into real, miserable outcomes for our communities. This podcast moves beyond headlines and funding announcements to provide clear, pr...

Welcome to the Oklahoma Rise 25 and 25 RHTP podcast. This podcast is a production of the Oklahoma Rise 25 and 25 RHTP Task Force, an independent Oklahoma-led collaborative focused on turning one of the most significant rural health investments in our state's history into real, measurable outcomes for our communities. This podcast moves beyond headlines and funding announcements to provide clear, p...

In this episode we take a deep dive into Oklahoma's Rural Regional Reorientation Plan—the centerpiece of the Rural Health Transformation Program—explaining why the state is committing $176,060,000 across FY2026–FY2031 to remake rural care delivery. Hosts and guests including state health officials, RHTP task force members, regional hospital leaders and policy experts unpack the scope of the crisis...

Welcome to the Oklahoma RISE 25 and 25 RHTP podcast. This episode delivers a focused, practical deep dive into the Clinically Integrated Network (CIN) Development Initiative, the single largest investment in Oklahoma’s Rural Health Transformation Program: an approximately $212.7 million, five-year initiative designed to solve the structural fragmentation threatening rural hospitals and clinics. In...

Welcome to the Oklahoma Rise 25 and 25 RHTP Forum podcast. This is a production of the Oklahoma Rise 25 and 25 RHTP Task Force. An independent, Oklahoma-led collaborative focused on turning one of the most significant rural health investments in our state's history into real, measurable outcomes for our communities. In this episode we take a Deep Dive into the Rural Health Transformation Program (...