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Craig Settles: Libraries and Telehealth on the Vanguard for Broadband

Libraries can do for telehealth what they did for broadband: Provide low-income folks with access to digital and healthcare literacy.

Craig Settles: Libraries and Telehealth on the Vanguard for Broadband
The author of this opinion is municipal broadband expert and industry analyst Craig Settles.

Libraries are the vanguard of a forces working to close the “healthcare gap.” The FCC’s E-rate broadband grant program for libraries and schools, and the Emergency Broadband Benefit broadband subsidy, collectively are providing over $10 billion immediately. Libraries can leverage these funds to deploy telehealth and broadband to attack the heathcare gap.

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