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Meeting the Challenge of Rural Service Delivery in North Dakota
NextGenWeb was recently on-site in Minot, North Dakota for the North Dakota State Telecommunications Association meeting. We met up with Bobbie Houn, M. S., CCC-SLP of Bismarck’s St. Alexius Medical Center Speech Pathology Tele-health program who was at the conference to share her insight on rural tele-health service delivery in North Dakota.
Click here to view her PowerPoint presentation: Meeting the Challenge of Rural Service Delivery: Tele-health & Speech Pathology.
Click here to view highlights from Bobbie’s Interview.
Broadband Telehealth Networks Coming To Rural America
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Telecommuting-A Quarter Of US Workers Do It Regularly
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Martin Makes Case for Rural Broadband Delivery
FCC Chairman Kevin Martin has made wider broadband access one of his top priorities by announcing a $400 million plan to expand health care access to America’s rural and underserved communities. The Rural Health Care Pilot Program (RHCPP) will develop broadband e-health networks in 42 states and three U.S. territories. Martin’s announcement was made in conjunction with the Department of Health and Human Services at a recent meeting of the American Health Information Community in Chicago.
The telecom industry has been working to increase broadband delivery to rural and hard to reach communities across the nation (see our blog entries on ConnectKentucky and the RUS broadband loan program) and we welcome Martin’s commitment to this issue. USTelecom member companies are investing a great deal of resources into the building of high-speed Internet networks that are among many things delivering the promise of health care to so many rural Americans.
Broadband Services: Economic and Environmental Benefits
Recently NextGenWeb attended the release of “Broadband Services: Economic and Environmental Benefits,” a study co-authored by Steve Pociask Professor, President of the American Consumer Institute, and Professor Joseph Fuhr Jr. which identifies ways broadband can reduce or avoid energy use. The roundtable discussion focused on the environmental benefits that can result from the use of information and communications technology. Panelists also examined a report by the Consumer Electronics Association, “The Energy and Greenhouse Gas Emissions Impact of Telecommuting and e-Commerce,” which found that using electronics to telecommute might save the equivalent of 9 to 14 billion kilowatt-hours of electricity per year. In addition, the panelists suggested things like telecommuting and e-commerce can result in significant reductions in the use of electricity and the production of greenhouse gases.
Watch highlights from the discussion after the jump.
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