Broadband & Healthcare

By Brad

Over at App-Rising, Geoff Daily offers his list of the “top ten applications for bettering healthcare through broadband.” Check it out.

Daily concludes his list with this word of caution:

In terms of what we need from next-generation broadband networks to enable all these applications to establish themselves and evolve the answers simple: we need everyone to have access to the best broadband. We need broadband networks with limitless capacity so as demands increase so can the supply needed to support them. We need broadband networks that we can rely on to always work. We need broadband networks with low latency to enable as close to real-time delivery as possible.

And while the benefits of next-generation broadband to how we administer medical care are profound, they’re only the tip of the iceberg.

As the Obama administration aims to reform health care and bring broadband to every person in America, the two issues can easily become one.