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Broadband: Helping Your Well-Being
The internet has been an important source of information for individuals and families since it became widely available several decades ago. But it was the availability of broadband access to the...
View ArticleTelemedicine
I can think of no more rewarding use of broadband communications services than the application of the Internet to healthcare, known as telemedicine. Telemedicine brings patients and health...
View ArticleThe American National Broadband Plan on Health Care: Opportunity in Abundant...
This blog is a crosspost from http://theworldwellinherit.blogspot.com/2010/03/american-national-broadband-plan-on.htmlThe National Broadband Plan (NBP) was issued last week to a warm reception and many...
View ArticleCTIA: The Future of Mobile Health
This week's CTIA conference in Las Vegas hosted a panel on the future of mobile broadband driven “mhealth.” Broadband for America has focused on efforts to use current and emerging broadband technology...
View ArticleVirginia Expands Telemedicine Services
VirginiaGov. Bob McDonnell will host a bill signing ceremony for state legislation that will expand telemedicine services across the state.The signing takes place at 2pm today at the VCU Minimally...
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Federal Program Will Fund Technology Improvements For Behavioral Health...
InformationWeek reports that a new Federal program will soon fund technology improvements for behavioral health organizations. "The federal Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration...
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Health IT Panel: On Balance, Health IT Improves Patient Safety
The Department of Health and Human Services has provided billions of dollars in incentive payments to doctors and hospitals to drive the adoption of health information technologies, such as electronic...
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Coalition Examines Telemedicine Services
On Friday, Sept. 28, the Health IT Now Coalition, a broad based coalition of patients, providers and payers that supports incentives to deploy heath information technology, will hold a Capitol Hill...
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Regulatory Cobwebs Impede Telemedicine Expansion
On Sept. 28, multiple industry experts gave their take on the state of telemedicine at an event on Capitol Hill held by the Health IT Now coalition. The coalition’s executive director Joel White was...
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Hoosier Rural Health Assn. Executive Praises Telemedicine and Broadband
Becky Sanders, director of operations for the Indiana Rural Health Association, recently wrote an essay that was published in the Muncie (Indiana) Star Press. Ms.Read more
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