Setting the Table for the National Broadband Plan: Health Care

Health Care and Telemedicine
BroadbandCensus.com
Tuesday, October 13, 2009
8 a.m.
Clyde's of Gallery Place
707 7th Street NW
Washington, DC 20001
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The Federal Communications Commission is in the midst of considering a major national initiative: a National Broadband Plan. What are the contours of such a plan likely to resemble? How will this broadband stragegy affect deployment, adoption and use of broadband throughout the United States? How will it affect health care, the environment, the digital divide, and online learning?

How will broadband affect burgeoning controversies over health care? Are the cost savings available through telemedicine as good as promised? Will information technologies be part of the solution - or just another complicating factor in the intricate medical system?

Panelists:

• Dr. Adam Darkins, Department of Veterans' Affairs.
• Col. Ron Poropatich, M.D., Department of the Army.
• Dr. Jay Sanders, Global Telemedicine Group; often dubbed the "father of telemedicine."