Telehealth - Broadband Breakfast (Page 5)

FCC

FCC to Expand Universal Service Rural Health Care Fund

WASHINGTON July 15, 2010- Rural America lags the rest of the country in both access to quality healthcare and high speed broadband but today’s action by the Federal Communications Commission seeks to change that. In a unanimous vote the commission supported expanding the Universal Service Rural Heal

Webinar Presents Telehealth Data and Recommendations

WASHINGTON July 7, 2010 Independent analyst firm Ovum presented a webinar to present the drivers and barriers to telehealth adoption, the current competition environment, and recommendations for health-care providers and patients. The webinar was presented by the authors of two recent telehealth re

Telehealth

Telemedicine Report Shows Strong Growth in BRIC Countries

WASHINGTON July 7, 2010 -Telemedicine is one of the most concrete benefits of faster and more ubiquitous broadband access. The research firm Markets and Markets has just released a report detailing the expansion of telemedicine in the BRIC (Brazil, Russia, India, and China). The report found a fairl

Broadband's Impact

What You Could Do On A Gigabit Network: Tai Chi Class Through Your Television

LAFAYETTE, La., — April 23, 2010 — When Google announced its Gigabit fiber network initiative this February [http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2010/02/think-big-with-gig-our-experimental.html], the first example it offered of what such a network could be good for was a rural telehealth application wher

Telehealth

Virginia Gov. McDonnell Signs Telemedicine Reimbursement Legislation

The Federal Communications Commission’s national broadband plan seeks to promote telemedicine, but the national health care bill recently-passed by Congress fails to include support for it. However, last week Virginia Gov. Bob McDonnell (R) signed SB 675, a health insurance bill that mandates covera

Telehealth

At Field Hearing on Online Adoption, Commissioner Copps Laments Internet-Only Want Ads

October 6, 2009 – The Federal Communication Commission hosted a “field hearing” in Charleston, S.C., on October 6, 2009, as part of as part of its series of workshops and testimony in preparing a national broadband plan. One panel at the hearing focused on expanding digital literacy to the elderly,

Telehealth

Health Care Ripe to Join the Technology Revolution, Panelists Say at Broadband Breakfast Club

WASHINGTON, October 13, 2009 – Hospitals and health care are the last of the industrial-age institutions that have yet to go online as department stores, banks, and venues entertainment have already gone, panelists said at the Broadband Breakfast Club Tuesday morning.

Telehealth

'Father of Telemedicine' to Speak at Broadband Breakfast Club on October 13

WASHINGTON, October 7, 2009 – BroadbandCensus.com announced the panelists for the next Broadband Breakfast Club, “Setting the Table for the National Broadband Plan: Health Care,” on Tuesday, October 13, 2009, at 8 a.m. [http://www.eventbrite.com/img/button/register_blue.gif]http://broadbandbreakfast

Telehealth

Study: Broadband Gives Rural Regions Economic Boost

WASHINGTON, August 31, 2009 – The role of rural communities continues to play a major part in the debate over the state of the nation’s broad¬band with a new study finding that high-speed Internet access helps grow their economic base.

Infrastructure

Internet Use Vital to Rural Economy, USDA Report Finds

WASHINGTON, March 3, 2009 – Most rural Americans do not subscribe to high speed internet services, according to an Agriculture Department report released last week.