The Details of the Heroic Rural Health Program

Proposal: Heroic Health Platform

Your Direct Path to Idaho’s RHTP Preventive Health Funds

Executive Summary

Idaho’s incoming Rural Health Transformation Project (RHTP) funds represent a historic opportunity to transform preventive health across the state, and hospital systems like yours are perfectly positioned to lead. Yet many organizations are still asking: How do we turn these dollars into real, measurable impact that reaches rural families despite common barriers?

Heroic Health provides the clear, ready-to-execute answer. We deliver family-wide preventive health education and self-management support through a 3D video game for kids that rewards real-world behavior change and quick interactive modules for parents and families. Built on the proven Heroic platform that has reached 10 million kids in public schools, Heroic Health integrates standardized programs for chronic conditions into your billable health education services. Our showcase hybrid diabetes model automates 90% of education in the pediatric game and parent app while rewarding families for bi-weekly telehealth check-ins — currently piloting with University of Florida researchers. Heroic is ready to adopt your preventive health programs and deliver them statewide — every day.

Through a low-risk 6-month pilot, we introduce the Heroic Hybrid Model that powers two data-driven pathways for initial and ongoing RHTP funding: (1) proactive preventive health pipelines for entire families and (2) enhanced DSMES support for families affected by diabetes. Kids become daily champions via the Heroic Influencer tool, inviting family members from the 3D campus to earn coins for completing health habits, retaining in services, and finishing screenings — pulling the whole family into better behaviors.

After the 6-month pilot, your team gains powerful real-world cases for RHTP funding. Your hospital tracks its normal patient metrics while Heroic shares only non-protected engagement data (playtime, modules, coin behaviors) tied to usernames. You map these to your records on your end, maintaining full HIPAA compliance — the same proven model used successfully in public schools with zero HIPAA, FERPA, or COPPA issues. Heroic automates the majority of content while promoting your billable services.

This is the most powerful preventive health solution available: every home becomes a preventive health center with minimal burden on your teams. While 96% of health apps suffer massive drop-off, Heroic overcomes this by becoming the central hub that combines technology with real-world behavior change through family-wide engagement — no other platform is more prepared to increase access to health education for vulnerable rural populations while tracking data and generating measurable behavior change.

The Heroic Hybrid Model – Daily Engagement That Powers RHTP Success

Heroic automates the large majority of your health content, and then ties into your billable health programs at established health systems provides comprehensive support — we can promote your billable services while automating the majority of education.

• Families engage every day through fun 3D gamified experiences for kids and interactive modules for parents.

• Kids earn virtual coins and become “Heroic Influencers,” pulling the whole family into better health habits.

• Your existing staff receives dedicated Heroic support and overflow capacity, keeping the lift on your team to just ~2.5 hours of daily telehealth per 50 families.

This is preventive health that actually works because it meets families in the Attention Economy — where kids already spend their time.

Participating in Idaho’s RHTP Project with Heroic Health – The Two Pathways

Idaho is actively seeking high-impact, scalable ways to deploy RHTP funds that strengthen rural and community health. Heroic Health equips your hospital to participate immediately through the Heroic Hybrid Model delivered via two integrated pathways that align perfectly with RHTP priorities:

Pathway 1: Proactive Preventive Health Pipelines for Entire Families

The same platform engages every family member in daily preventive habits, annual screenings, and high-risk family screening (e.g., 1st-degree relatives for T1D or other conditions). Hospitals can bill preventive and monitoring services through Chronic Care Management (CCM) codes or the new CMS ACCESS program for technology-enabled services. Families flagged for higher needs flow seamlessly into your advanced care pathways.

Pathway 2: DSMES Support for Families Affected by Diabetes

At diagnosis or enrollment, every family receives the Heroic Backpack (locked-down Chromebook + branded materials). Kids dive into a 3D video game while parents complete quick 2-minute modules covering all 9 ADA DSMES topics. Your designated Heroic Educator conducts brief, stackable billable telehealth check-ins (G0108/G0109) every two weeks.

This hybrid model (90% platform + 10% telehealth) dramatically improves DSMES retention and completion rates, adds consistent daily reinforcement, and generates ~$100 per family per month in new revenue — without replacing your standard medical appointments.

Both pathways are delivered through one unified Heroic platform, enabling you to report improved health outcomes directly to RHTP funders. School nurses can also distribute Heroic Backpacks to families affected by chronic illness, creating a closed-loop system that connects your clinic, local schools, and every home. Families flagged by the platform can then be referred to your hospital’s real-world services by the school nurse as part of Heroic’s collaboration with the National Association of School Nurses.

Pilot Investment, Structure, & Data

Investment: $75,000 from your health system for the initial 6 months, which allows Heroic to cover:

• Heroic Backpack distribution (including locked-down Chromebooks for families needing a device) for 50 children ages 5–12.

• Full platform implementation and licensing at no additional cost to patients.

• Dedicated Heroic support and onboarding with your DSMES quality coordinator or preventive health lead.

This is not a long-term commitment. At month 6, we jointly review outcomes and decide next steps for broader RHTP scaling.

Data Collection & Outcomes

Heroic shares only non-protected engagement data (playtime, modules completed, coin-earning behaviors). Your team matches usernames to patient records to track the following while remaining fully HIPAA-compliant:

• Program retention (e.g. DSMES)

• Clinical improvements (e.g. a1c)

• Hope/knowledge scores (e.g. Children’s Hope Scale/KAT-1)

• Screening participation (e.g. T1D autoantibodies for high-risk family members)

All metrics are fully customizable to any patient population your system serves through Heroic.

Next Steps

We are excited to partner with your health system to turn Idaho’s RHTP opportunity into the most powerful preventive health initiative in the nation — one that grabs attention, sustains itself through reliable participation, improves lives, and positions your organization as the leader in rural and community health.