Consumer Welfare, Capital Formation And Net Neutrality
Darby Associates & The American Consumer Institute
June 6, 2006

• Consumers are better served with no regulation of broadband.
• Investments in the next generation of broadband is costly, and regulations would impact the incentive for companies to continue their necessary investments.

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Home Broadband Adoption 2007
John Horrigan, Pew Internet And American Life Project
June 2007

• 47% of all adult Americans have a broadband connection at home as of early 2007, a five percentage point increase from early 2006.
• 40% of African Americans now have a broadband connection at home, a nine percentage point increase from early 2006.

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Telehomecare and Remote Monitoring-An Outcomes Overview
Advanced Medical Technology Association
November 2007

• Comprehensive implementation of telehomecare and remote monitoring require: (a) the cost of accessing adequate broadband services; (b) the reimbursement of nurse and physician fees; and (c) the cost of acquiring, maintaining, and regularly updating the facilities and medical technologies necessary for the telehealth services.
• It is essential that public and private sector leaders who can influence payment policy recognize the potential for telehealth and its many forms to improve care and efficiently manage resources for an aging population, as well as for productive citizens with chronic diseases.

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The Value of Provider to Provider Telehealth Technologies
Center For Information Technology Leadership
November 2007

• The overall the benefits of telehealth technologies far outweigh the costs of these systems to implement.
• Telehealth as a field has evolved in an effort to eliminate geography and lack of specialty care as barriers to appropriate healthcare services.

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Improving Health Care-Why a Dose of IT May Be Just What the Doctor Ordered
Information Technology & Innovation Foundation
October 26, 2007

• Electronic health records and health IT hold the promise of transforming health care in America by improving quality and lowering cost.
• Adoption of EHRs has been slow, Congress should help accelerate their use.

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Advancing Healthcare Through Broadband-Opening Up a World of Possibilities
Internet Innovation Alliance
October 24, 2007

• It is clear that expanded broadband service can enable improved health care at a reduced cost for more people.
• Among the most advanced initiatives using broadband to improve health care is enhanced medical recordkeeping that knits together electronic databases, giving patients and authorized providers instant and centralized access to information such as health histories, treatment regimens and medical images.

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e-Health And America’s Broadband Networks
David P. McClure, USIIA
August 14, 2007

• The emergence of eHealth has been shown to reduce the cost of healthcare and increase efficiency through better retention and retrieval of records, better management of chronic diseases, shared health professional staffing, reduced travel times, and fewer or shorter hospital stays.
• Broadband helps to address the most critical complaints about the US health care system: high administrative costs, discrepancies in geographic coverage, and the high cost of delivery of services.

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Tele-ICUs: Remote Management In Intensive Care Units
New England Healthcare Institute, Massachusetts Technology Collaborative, Health Technology Center
2006

• The use of telemedicine to permit the remote monitoring of ICU patients and management of their care by specialty-trained clinicians is a growing trend in the U.S. health care system.
• Policies to encourage Tele-ICUs and other broadband technology need to be made. 

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Net Neutrality And People With Disabilities
Frank Bowe, Hofstra University
May 2006

• The framework of net neutrality has been advanced by some in recent months as being a proconsumer approach to regulation of the Internet. In fact, as this paper seeks to demonstrate, access to the public Internet requires not only that the network be open, but also that it be useable by all of us. 
• The paper concludes that net neutrality should not be mandated at this time.

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Net Neutrality - Beware The Law Of Unintended Consequences
Craig Moffett, Amelia Wong and Judah Rifkin, Bernstein Research
April 7, 2006

• The study is a response to reports and testimony by the authors before the Senate Commerce Committee on March 14, 2006.
• Market forces are better suited to protect consumers than regulations.

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