Healthcare IT News July 1, 2020
With many small and remote providers still in acute need of high-speed broadband, but the funding cap outpaced, the commission will carry forward unused funds from previous years to meet the need for virtual care.
The Federal Communications Commission announced this week that it would be allocating more money to be disbursed to rural providers and help them establish the broadband connectivity necessary to implement telehealth and virtual care during the coronavirus crisis.
WHY IT MATTERS
The FCC’s Rural Health Care Program has seen intense interest in recent years from small providers nationwide seeking high-speed broadband to enable telehealth and remote patient-monitoring – so much so that the demand has outpaced the funding cap.
In 2018, the FCC developed new rules...
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