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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Net Gains OR Net Loses? The Net Neutrality Debate And The Future Of The Internet
Pacific Research Institute
August 2007

• High-tech companies will continue to innovate and invest in the next generation of technology if regulations are kept under control.

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Home Broadband Adoption
John B. Horrigan, PEW Internet And American Life Project
May 2006

• Home broadband adoption grew by 40% in the year prior to March 2006, twice the growth rate of the year before.
• Growth in broadband adoption has been very strong in middle-income households, and particularly fast for African Americans and those with low levels of education.

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Common Sense About Network Neutrality
David Farber, Carnegie Mellon University; Gerald Faulhaber, Wharton School and University of Pennsylvania Law School; Michael L. Katz, University of California, Berkeley; Christopher Yoo, Vanderbilt University
June 6, 2006

• Keep the internet free of regulations.
• Congressional initiatives aimed at regulating the internet threatens to stifle the emergence of the innovations.

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Broadband America
Consumer Electronics Association
July 2007

• The prevalence of broadband in the home has grown significantly. For the first time, there are more households with broadband than without.
• Beyond broadband at home, access outside the home is also playing a vital role in the broadband story. Taken together, 72 percent of all adults either have broadband at home or regularly access a broadband connection outside the home.

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