At Speed Matters, we have highlighted the benefits of high speed Internet for the economy, education, health care, the environment, public safety and closing the digital divide. However, several new broadband-based programs are helping solve another problem: allowing ill children to be kids. Read More »
Broadband saves lives - at least according to a recent article in the USA Today. A two-way video and audio link - made possible by rural broadband access - saved the life of a woman experiencing a stroke. Read More »
Thanks to a $1.8 million grant from Blue Cross Blue Shield of Tennessee Health Foundation, an existing telemedicine network will be expanded to 11 rural sites throughout the state to benefit pregnant women. Read More »
The Hawaii Medical Service Association, the state's Blue Cross-Blue Shield Licensee, is going to provide a web service - called American Well - that will increase the accessibility of doctors to both insured and uninsured patients. Read More »
The Alliance for Public Technology - a Speed Matters partner - recently announced the winners of its second "Broadband Changed My Life!" contest. Read More »
A broadband-based system - called Telehealth - that allows health care professional to monitor patients remotely is being brought to British nursing homes. Read More »
A new telemedicine program was recently launched in all 17 schools in the Sevier Country, Tennessee school district that significantly improves the capabilities of the school nurse. Read More »
The Benton Foundation has released a report entitled "Using technology and innovation to address our nation's critical challenges" that very successfully makes the case for a national broadband policy. Read More »
Telemedicine achieved a significant milestone recently when an endoscopic surgery in Puerto Rico was broadcast live to doctors in several locations throughout the United States. Read More »
The Meadowview Health Clinic and Community Center in Meadowview, Virginia has received a $227,613 federal grant to join a telemedicine network with the University of Virginia. Read More »
