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1st-Mile New Mexico
New Mexico 'open' broadband initiative.
Subjects: Rural/Hard to Reach Areas, Healthcare, Individual State, Entertainment, Technology, Policy, Education & Research, Advocacy, Business, Government, Economic Development, General Public, Rates, History
Type: Network/Service Provider, Publication, News Item, Organization, Policy/Regulation, Application, Mailing List, Presentations, Quote, Legislation
State(s): New Mexico
200 Billion Broadband Scandal
In this blog entry, Susan Estrada, President, FirstMile.US explains why everyone should care about big broadband in the US citing examples in Healthcare, Education, and entertainment.
Subjects: Healthcare, Entertainment, Education & Research, Business, Economic Development
Type: Blog/Wiki
State(s): NONE
Arizona Telemedicine Program
The Arizona Telemedicine Program is a large, multidisciplinary, university-based program that provides telemedicine services, distance learning, informatics training, and telemedicine technology assessment capabilities to communities throughout Arizona. The program has succeeded in creating partnerships among a wide variety of not-for-profit and profit healthcare organizations, and has created new interagency relationships within the state government. As a "virtual corporation," the Program is creating new paradigms for healthcare delivery over the information superhighway.
Subjects: Healthcare, Education & Research
Type: Organization
State(s): Arizona
Automating the healthcare industry
"The 10% Solution," automating the health care industry. "President Bush says a dose of IT can help the ailing health-care industsry save billions of dollars, but government's role in the transformation is unclear."
Subjects: Healthcare, Government
Type: News Item, Policy/Regulation
State(s): NONE
Broadband could be health boon for seniors
Accelerating Internet broadband deployment in the United States could deliver better health services to elderly Americans and individuals with disabilities and slash overall health care costs, according to a new report released yesterday.
The report, which was written by economist Robert Litan, estimates Internet broadband usage would lower medical and institutionalized living costs and increase labor force participation of more senior citizens and individuals with disabilities through telecommuting.
“Considered together, these three benefits are estimated to accumulate to at least $927 billion in cost savings and output gains in 2005 dollars … over the 25 year period, 2005 to 2030,” Litan wrote in the report, which was authorized by the New Millennium Research Council, a Washington, D.C.-based think tank.
The estimated savings is equal to half of what the nation spends annually – $1.8 trillion – for medical care for all citizens, he wrote.
Litan is assuming development of all types of broadband technologies, including wireless, broadband via power lines, cable and telephone-based digital subscriber lines, to any type of device, whether it’s a PC, cell phone or personal digital assistant.
Subjects: Healthcare, Technology
Type: Publication, News Item
State(s): NONE
Broadband Deployment Key to Opportunity for Children
The Childrens Partnership (TCP) released an analysis of how the deployment of high-speed Internet (or broadband) affects 73 million U.S. children, nearly 10 million of whom live in California.
Helping Our Children Succeed: Whats Broadband Got to Do With It? reviews concrete ways in which broadband serves as the conduit for delivering valuable opportunities to youthservices that increase educational achievement, improve childrens health, prepare young people for the jobs of today and tomorrow, and enable young people to get involved in their local communities.
Subjects: Healthcare, Technology, Education & Research, General Public
Type: Publication
State(s): NONE
California Teleconnect Fund
California Teleconnect Fund: 50% discount to K-12 public & private schools, libraries, hospitals & community based organizations.
On June 1st, the CPUC announced that, per Senate Bill (SB) 720, it will use up to $3 million of the funds remaining in its CTF to provide infrastructure for digital divide projects. The CTF program provides a 50 percent discount on monthly recurring charges for lines for high-speed telecommunications services, such as digital subscriber line services (DSL) and T-1 technology, to schools, libraries, hospitals and health clinics that are owned and operated by a municipal or county government or a hospital district, and community based organizations.
Under SB 720, if there are funds that have not been solicited for the CTF program in a fiscal year but have already been included in the budget for the program, that money will be used to fund 40 percent of the one-time installation costs for entities that do not have access to advanced telecommunications services.
Claims for reimbursement of past costs back to September 23, 2003 will be accepted. Claims will be paid on a first-come, first serve basis until funds are exhausted.
Subjects: Healthcare, Policy, Education & Research, Government
Type: Funding Source, Legislation
State(s): California
California to connect retirees to telemedicine
About 90,000 members of the California Public Employees' Retirement System (CalPERS) who live in rural areas will soon be able to receive medical advice from specialists via a telemedicine network operated by Blue Cross.
When the network starts Jan. 1, 2006, CalPERS will be the first employer health care purchaser in California to offer telemedicine as a specific rural benefit.
Subjects: Rural/Hard to Reach Areas, Healthcare
Type: Network/Service Provider
State(s): California
Center for Health & Technology’s Telemedicine Program
Center for Health & Technology’s Telemedicine Program, created by the UC Davis Health Systems to bring telemedicine to ~80 facilities in rural areas; applications include mental health care, endocrinology and prenatal care.
Subjects: Rural/Hard to Reach Areas, Healthcare, Education & Research
Type: Organization
State(s): California
Colorado to reimburse providers for telemedicine
Colorado Medicaid patients could have much broader access to telemedicine in the future under the terms of a bill recently signed into law by Gov. Bill Owens that will reimburse health providers for such services beginning July 1.
The bill, sponsored by state Rep. Cory Gardner and Sen. Bob Hagedorn, is based on studies that show providers can save as much as $1 million in costs from a $150,000 initial outlay for telemedicine systems at rural practices, Gardner said.
Subjects: Rural/Hard to Reach Areas, Healthcare, Individual State, Technology, Government, General Public
Type: News Item, Policy/Regulation, Application
State(s): Colorado
Connected Tennessee
Connected Tennessee, Inc., an independent non-profit organization, works with a wide array of Tennessee entities to make the cost of technology expansion go down and the ease of doing business go up. Connected Tennessee will accelerate the availability and use of technology towards creating a better business environment, more effective community and economic development, improved healthcare, enhanced education, and more efficient government.
Subjects: Rural/Hard to Reach Areas, Healthcare, Individual State, Technology, Education & Research, Advocacy, Business, Economic Development, General Public
Type: Organization
State(s): Tennessee
COTel Task Force
The Central Oregon Telecommunications Task Force (COTel) is an ad-hoc group of representatives from K-12 education, higher education, health care, non-profit and social service agencies, the business community, and government. The group formed in 1995 to establish a leading-edge vision for telecommunications infrastructure in Central Oregon and to develop strategies for achieving that vision. COTel seeks to enact change by encouraging partnerships among communities of interest, and among telecommunications consumers and providers.
Subjects: Healthcare, Education & Research, Government
Type: Organization
State(s): Oregon
Digital Dakota Network
Digital Dakota Network is available to all state agencies, K-12 schools, higher education, libraries, municipal governments, and state hospitals. 286 video conference sites support ~150 distance learning classes each day. Department of Education funded the infrastructure, and K-12 schools do not pay for access. Higher ed, counties and munis pay a fee.
Subjects: Healthcare, Education & Research, Government, General Public
Type: Network/Service Provider, Video
State(s): South Dakota
Doctors Telehealth Network
The Telehealth system enables a healthcare professional to perform remote patient examinations in real time by integrating digital medical instrumentation with 30 frame per second videoconferencing, transmitting and recording the images over a secure network. The physician’s office hardware is about the size of a PC and a small space is needed at the patient site, nursing home, clinic, hospital or home for patient examination and transportable equipment.
Subjects: Healthcare
Type: Network/Service Provider, Video
State(s): NONE
Florida makes a move to a health IT network
Florida is moving ahead with its plan to build the Florida Health Information Network (FHIN), a state equivalent to the national network that President Bush proposed last year.
The state has launched a $1.5 million grants program to help kick off health information exchange projects and support doctors and other medical practitioners with the adoption of electronic health records (EHRs).
Subjects: Healthcare, Government
Type: News Item, Funding Source, Application
State(s): Florida
Gadgets Geared to Geriatric Generation
Talking pill bottles that remind you to take your medicine. A wristwatch that can help find a wandering Alzheimer's patient. Smart Band-Aids that check your temperature and heartbeat. Sensors in bedsheets that monitor sleep apnea and snoring. Robots that help disabled people get up from a chair and walk down the hall. They sound like sci-fi, or entries from a Sharper Image catalog circa 2015, but they're technologies being developed today. With America's population rapidly aging, electronic devices geared toward seniors' health and well-being at home are a growing new sector. A few are on the market now; more may hit the U.S. market as soon as next year.
Intel takes the area so seriously that when it reorganized in January, it created a digital health group as one of its five primary business units reporting directly to the chief executive officer.
Subjects: Healthcare, Technology
Type: Appliance/Device/Gadget, News Item, Application
State(s): NONE
Health Information Technology could save $81 Billion a Year
Rand has weighed in on the debate over the costs and benefits of adopting electronic health records nationally, concluding that widespread adoption of health information technology could save more than $81 billion a year and improve the quality of patient care.
A Rand report published Wednesday in the journal Health Affairs says the federal government should do more to accelerate health IT adoption. Follow the above link for the full report.
Subjects: Healthcare, Technology
Type: Publication, News Item
State(s): NONE
Health Officers Collaboration Initiative
The Health Officers Association of California has assembled a unique team of health professionals, high technology companies, government agencies and research centers and non-profit research affiliates to develop a secure, collaborative, virtual private network linking California's 58 county and 3 City Physician Health Officers
Subjects: Healthcare, Individual State, Government
Type: Organization
State(s): California
Healthcare Presentation
Akbar Kara, former Director of Network at NYP/ColumbiaU Med Center, has provided an excellent slide deck that describes how the benefits of the customer owned networks can help reduce IT healthcare costs. Often the CPAEX costs of deploying a customer owned network are less than the annual OPEX costs for a carrier. He was the one responsible for acquiring dark fiber and deploying a DWDM system for NY Presbyterian Hospital complex.
Subjects: Healthcare
Type: Presentations
State(s): NONE
Hospitals' electronic linkup is advancing
About a third of the 3,300 physicians in the Indianapolis area are hooked into an electronic clinical messaging system with hospitals that ships lab test results and other patient records in the blink of an eye.
The system, which will make Indianapolis one of the first cities in the nation with a broad-based electronic communications network linking hospitals and doctors, should reach all doctors in the nine-county area by the end of the year.
Subjects: Healthcare, Individual State
Type: News Item
State(s): Indiana
House subcommittee pushes through health IT bill
The first significant piece of health information technology legislation to come from Congress moved closer to enactment when the House Ways and Means Health Subcommittee on May 24 approved the Health Information Technology Promotion Act of 2006 (H.R. 4157).
The Senate passed a similar bill in November last year. The House bill now only needs the consent of the full Ways and Means committee before the House can vote on it. The House is expected pass the bill.
Subjects: Healthcare, Technology, Policy, Government, General Public
Type: News Item, Policy/Regulation
State(s): NONE
Initiative Announced to Create a Connected Tennessee
The Tennessee Broadband Task Force announced today that national non-profit Connected Nation has begun work toward ensuring the State of Tennessee becomes a leader in the wired world by launching a statewide initiative called Connected Tennessee.
Subjects: Rural/Hard to Reach Areas, Healthcare, Individual State, Entertainment, Technology, Advocacy, Business
Type: News Item
State(s): Tennessee
Iowa Communications Network (ICN)
Iowa Communications Network (ICN) provides authorized users the highest quality and technologically advanced educational, medical, judicial, and governmental telecommunications services and support the State of Iowa in achieving economic growth.
Subjects: Healthcare, Education & Research, Government, Economic Development
Type: Network/Service Provider
State(s): Iowa
ITU Internet Reports 2005: The Internet of Things
ITU Internet Reports 2005: The Internet of Things is the seventh in the series of "ITU Internet Reports" originally launched in 1997 by the International Telecommunication Union.
Written by a team of analysts from the Strategy and Policy Unit (SPU) of the ITU, the report takes a look at the next step in "always on" communications, in which new technologies like RFID and smart computing promise a world of networked and interconnected devices that provide relevant content and information whatever the location of the user. Everything from tires to toothbrushes will be in communications range, heralding the dawn of a new era, one in which today’s Internet (of data and people) gives way to tomorrow’s Internet of Things.
Subjects: Healthcare, Entertainment, Technology, Education & Research, Business, Economic Development, General Public, Other Countries
Type: Publication
State(s): NONE
Jackson County Telecommunications and Technology Strategic Plan
A strategic planning process fosters an enhanced economic and community development environment that will position Jackson County, Oregon to provide leadership to meet the growing needs of its residents. The planning process will promote countywide collaboration and cooperation to improve access to affordable broadband solutions, improve and focus economic and community development strategies employing technologies, and increase access to higher wage employment opportunities. The end result will be highly conducive to economic growth prospects with improved access to healthcare, government, education and entertainment.
Subjects: Healthcare, Entertainment, Education & Research, Government, Economic Development
Type: Policy/Regulation
State(s): Oregon
KAN-ED
KAN-ED a partnership between the State and the Kansas Telecommunications Industry to form a broadband network for K-12, high ed, libraries and hospitals. Governed by the Kansas Board of Regents. Attempting to unite 48 service providers so that all Kansans have access to high speed internet at the same price. Partly funded by E-rate.
Subjects: Healthcare, Education & Research, Government, Rates
Type: Network/Service Provider, Organization
State(s): Kansas
Montana health IT center plans National Health Information Network bid
The Department of Health and Human Services wants to tap a wide pool of bidders for the eight prototype contracts the agency plans to award this September for the National Health Information Network. Leaders of a partnership between organizations in Montana and North Carolina say HHS should consider bids from organizations far removed from the Washington, D.C., area.
Raymond Rogers, chief development officer for the National Center for Health Care Informatics at Montana Tech of the University of Montana in Butte, said his organization is partnering with Physicians EHR, an electronic health records consulting firm in Cary, N.C., to bid on one of the network contracts. If the partnership wins, they will serve patients in Montana.
Montana’s geography and sparse population –- roughly 1 million people are spread across 145,000 square miles –- cry out for electronic health care systems.
That is one reason the center and the Mountain-Pacific Quality Health Foundation plan to boost interest by holding a health technology conference next month at Montana Tech, Rogers said.
Dr. Dwight Hiesterman, a clinical consultant at the foundation, said, "Paper records are an anathema, given that many of our citizens travel 50 miles to see their primary care physician or up to 300 miles to see a specialist.”
Subjects: Rural/Hard to Reach Areas, Healthcare, Government
Type: News Item, Application
State(s): Montana
OneCleveland
OneCleveland, a non-profit entity created to provide gigabit connectivity to non-profit organizations (education, culture and arts, research, heath care, and government) and pave the way for a growing metropolitan provision of widespread and free regional wi-fi access. Case Western Reserve University has led the effort to create the partnership of non-profits.
Subjects: Healthcare, Education & Research, Government, General Public
Type: Network/Service Provider, Organization
State(s): Ohio
OneNet
OneNet, a statewide broadband network for government agencies, schools, universities, hospitals. Upgrades have been funded by allocations from the regents, bond issues, and user fees, e.g., the National Guard pays a fee.
Subjects: Healthcare, Education & Research, Government
Type: Network/Service Provider
State(s): Oklahoma
Oregon seeks $26.5M from feds for health IT
Source: Government Health IT/FCW
BY Bob Brewin
Published on June 2, 2006
The state of Oregon plans to seek $26.5 million in federal funding to pay for the installation of electronic health record (EHR) systems at more than 4,000 doctors offices in the state, Governor Ted Kulongoski announced.
Kulongoski also announced the appointment of Dr. Jody Pettit to serve as the state Health Information Technology Coordinator to help create a statewide health information network.
Pettit chaired the Electronic Health Records and Healthcare Connectivity Subcommittee of Oregon Health Policy Commission in 2005, which supported the development of a statewide health information system.
The commission endorsed the subcommittees recommendation to promote the use of EHRs and promote interconnectivity of health information data statewide.
To deploy such a system, Kulongoski said the state needs an infusion of federal funds.
Subjects: Rural/Hard to Reach Areas, Healthcare, Individual State, Technology, Government, General Public
Type: News Item, Application
State(s): Oregon
OSHEAN -- Ocean State Higher Education and Administrative Network
OSHEAN, (pronounced – “ocean”), connects its members to the Internet and advanced global research networks to help improve research and education in the region. Our members include all of the Institutions of Higher Education in RI, the public library system, RINET – which supports the technology needs of the municipal and K-12 education community, as well as Lifespan and Care New England.
Subjects: Healthcare, Education & Research, Government, General Public
Type: Network/Service Provider, Organization
State(s): Rhode Island
Prescription for Improvement
As Hurricane Katrina swept across the Gulf Coast region and obliterated vital services for millions of people, 400,000 military veterans living in the region didn't have to worry about losing their medical records or access to care.
Thanks to the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) and its electronic medical records (EMRs) system, all veterans' medical records remained intact.
By linking data across all its medical facilities and departments, the VA guarantees both access and high-quality care to veterans when they need it -- no matter their location.
The VA has embarked on a sweeping effort to use IT throughout its health care system. The federal agency's response during Katrina is but one striking example of what happens when IT is integrated with a mission-critical business need of a government agency.
Subjects: Healthcare, Technology
Type: Policy/Regulation
State(s): NONE
Sign of the Times: Deaf-education departments find new uses for online videoconferencing
In a computer laboratory here one recent afternoon, four high-school students are deep in excited, one-on-one conversations with tutors.
They are students at the Delaware School for the Deaf, and their conversations with their tutors, deaf-education students at Valdosta State University, in Georgia, are conducted in sign language, transmitted by Internet videoconferencing.
Subjects: Healthcare, Technology, Education & Research, General Public
Type: News Item, Application
State(s): NONE
SmartWear Technologies Prepares to Launch Innovative Product Line
SmartWear Technologies, Inc. an emerging company in the research and production of wireless applications for consumer purposes, is developing new ways to bring wireless technologies into everyday use, and directly addresses Anti-Abduction and Rescue Applications.
SmartWear bases its innovative wireless applications on Technology that is proven and functional in industries from retail to air transportation. SmartWear leverages wireless technology to create early-detection systems, and envisions incorporating its patented technology into practical consumer products designed to monitor the whereabouts of children or locate missing persons.
The company's first products, incorporate RFID tags embedded in clothing of children, which allows parents to monitor the child's whereabouts and trigger an alarm if the child leaves a designated area or crosses a boundary.
Outside the home, SmartWear can help Law Enforcement or Search and Rescue locate children or missing persons who have been abducted or are missing. In the future, SmartWear will be adapted to a variety of monitoring and locating systems and interface with law enforcement and AMBER alerts.
Source: http://freshnews.com/news/telecom-wireless/article_25389.html
Subjects: Healthcare, Technology, Business, General Public
Type: Appliance/Device/Gadget, News Item, Application
State(s): NONE
Telemedicine Improving Stroke Patients' Survival
The Neuro Critical Care Center, operated by Brain Saving Technologies Inc. in Wellesley Hills, MA, links emergency-room doctors with the specialists from the hub hospital, UMass Memorial Medical Center, in Worcester, MA, through a visual-communication workstation that can connect via IP, high-bandwidth communications, or private leased line.
Subjects: Healthcare
Type: News Item
State(s): Massachusetts
Telemedicine slashes hospital stays
A British telemedicine project has halved the time patients spend in the hospital by enabling doctors to monitor their condition remotely. Using the system to manage chronic respiratory diseases, doctors in Carlisle have managed to reduce hospital stays for some patients from 10 days to 5.5 days.
Subjects: Healthcare, Technology, General Public, Other Countries
Type: News Item
State(s): NONE
The 2004 Louisiana Broadband Assessment
The 2004 Louisiana Broadband Assessment, recommended funding for the Louisiana Optical Network Initiative (LONI) is a $40 million fiber network that grants access to LSU, Louisiana Tech University, LSU Medical Centers in Shreveport and New Orleans, the University of Louisiana at Lafayette, Southern University, the University of New Orleans and Tulane University.
Subjects: Healthcare, Education & Research, Government
Type: Network/Service Provider, Publication
State(s): Louisiana
The Children's Partnership Report -- Measuring Digital Opportunity for America's Children
The Children's Partnership has released a report titled Measuring Digital Opportunity for America's Children: Where We Stand and Where We Go From Here. The report showed that
Information and Communications technology positively impacts the lives of youth, particularly around four critical areas of their lives health, education, workforce development, and civic participation. It also identified a troubling digital gap, showing that many youth miss out on these opportunities.
Subjects: Healthcare, Technology, Education & Research
Type: Publication
State(s): NONE
The Office of Information Technology
The Office of Information Technology administers the Arkansas State Video Network connecting 200 sites for interactive video conferencing for distance learning, telemedicine and teleconferencing.
Subjects: Rural/Hard to Reach Areas, Healthcare, Education & Research, Government
Type: Network/Service Provider, Video
State(s): Arkansas
The Politics of Broadband: Creating Your Own First Mile Vision
This is the PDF of slides from the presentation given by Susan Estrada, President, FirstMile.US at the USDA 2006 Rural Development Conference. It shows the possibilities and opportunities possible if a community employs broadband technology and also explores what a community needs to do in order to get broadband into their developments.
Subjects: Rural/Hard to Reach Areas, Healthcare, Entertainment, Policy, Advocacy, Government, Economic Development, General Public
Type: Presentations
State(s): Mississippi
VA/DOD Pharmacy System
Veterans with full retirement benefits can now fill their prescriptions at the departments of Veterans Affairs or Defense hospitals, but until now they had to carry their paper prescriptions between the hospitals, even though the VA and DOD have robust electronic health care networks. A new VA/DOD bidirectional pharmacy system deployed this week by the Pacific Telehealth & Technology Hui, a health research and application and development center, eliminates the need for the paper trail.
Subjects: Healthcare, Government
Type: News Item, Application
State(s): NONE
Wyoming plans e-records for health
Wyoming has started developing a statewide electronic health record (EHR) system. A recent study by John Snow's health consulting firm emphasized the need for broadband connections. Wyoming has a broadband network serving every school in the state, but legal and capacity arriers block the use of that network for anything other than schools. Broadband access for small medical offices in isolated communities is a problem.
Subjects: Rural/Hard to Reach Areas, Healthcare
Type: News Item, Policy/Regulation, Application
State(s): Wyoming