“Extending the U.S. broadband infrastructure would significantly improve the development of electronic medical records, while reducing costs and saving hundreds of billions of dollars in the coming decades, a federal report shows.
The National Broadband Plan which was published by the Federal Communications Commission and mandated in last year’s stimulus bill, says improvements in broadband technology and its delivery provides the necessary foundation upon which the current heath care system’s technological transformation depends.”
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Nicole Lewis, InformationWeek Healthcare, 17 March 2010
