Lexology September 26, 2018
Testifying before the United States Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation
in July 2018 regarding the benefits of increasing health care connectivity, FCC Commissioner Brendan
Carr told a story about his visit to the Mississippi Delta:
Last month, I returned to Mississippi and visited the Delta, which is ground zero for the country’s diabetes epidemic. It is where I met Ms. Annie. She noticed the first signs of diabetes when she woke up with blurred vision. So, she signed up for a remote patient monitoring program. She showed me the iPad and the Bluetooth enabled blood sugar monitor that...