Aug 25, 2009 (US Broadband Failing Speed Test?)
BENTON'S COMMUNICATIONS-RELATED HEADLINES for TUESDAY AUGUST 25, 2009
Public safety and energy/environment are the broadband topics of the day at the FCC -- see http://www.benton.org/calendar/2009-08-25/
GOVERNMENT & COMMUNICATIONS
The Government and the Web
Advocates Blamed For WhiteHouse.gov Goof
UK government proposes cutting Web access to file sharers
JOURNALISM
Americans need the media to give us the truth in the healthcare debate
Health Care Fight Drives the News Narrative
Dinkins Advises Paterson: Stop Calling Your Critics Racist
Bringing diversity to the newsroom is not the same as bringing diversity to the coverage
What's keeping news organizations from trying the "low-profit" model?
Post-Newspaper Journalism? [Audio]
See also: Daily newspaper's death leaves Ann Arbor at a loss
Photojournalism enters a golden age
NATIONAL BROADBAND PLAN
Kentucky Cable Companies Oppose Connected Nation
FCC Says It Is Seeking Diverse Workshop Lineup
FCC Announces Participants in National Broadband Plan Workshops for Week of August 24
FCC's Consumer Advisory Committee to Consider National Broadband Plan
Broadband Opportunities for People With Disabilities
Panelists to FCC: Raise e-Rate funding cap
MORE ON INTERNET/BROADBAND
Uneven efforts have left a 'digital divide' across nation
How Markey III Hurts the Internet
Look How Ubiquitous Wi-Fi Has Become
WIRELESS
iPhone vs. Google Voice
AT&T Confirms Data Plan Requirement
Why did Apple okay RingCentral?
Mexico to auction new mobile phone frequencies
FTC, DOJ Clear Sprint's Virgin Mobile Buy
HEALTH & MEDIA
Health care industry a challenge, opportunity for telecom
Research Trove: Patients' Online Data
MORE ONLINE ...
WSBT South Bend Deal Fizzles Absent FCC Action
Yahoo renews vow to fight Microsoft
Political Talk Shows Talk Themselves Out of Ads
Media multitasking doesn't work say researchers
Favorite Phone: iPhone; Favorite Computer: Mac -- There's a Pattern Here [video]
Wikipedia to Limit Changes to Articles on People
GOVERNMENT & COMMUNICATIONS
THE GOVERNMENT AND THE WEB
[SOURCE: New York Times, AUTHOR: Editorial staff]
[Commentary] The Obama administration is considering new rules to make it easier for government Web sites to use "cookies" and other technology to track visitors. There are valid reasons for using such tools, but the government has to build in robust privacy protections. The Office of Management and Budget is developing the new rules. Officials say they recognize that people must be told that their use of Web sites is being tracked — and be given a chance to opt out. More is needed. The government should commit to displaying such notices prominently on all Web pages — and to making it easy for users to choose not to be tracked. It must promise that tracking data will be used only for the purpose it was collected for: if someone orders a pamphlet on living with cancer, it should not end up in a general database. Information should be purged regularly and as quickly as possible. These rules must apply to third parties that operate on government sites. The Obama administration is working to better harness the power of the Internet to deliver government services. That is good. But it needs to be mindful that people should be able to get help and be assured that their privacy is being vigilantly protected.
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ADVOCATES BLAMED FOR WHITEHOUSE.GOV GOOF
[SOURCE: National Journal, AUTHOR: Beth Sussman]
After individuals went on Fox News and took to the Internet last week complaining they'd received unsolicited e-mails from the White House, the administration said it would change how it collects addresses. That's a good idea, e-mail experts say, because the White House has plenty of room for improvement. "I would grade their e-mail collection process as an F," said Marco Marini, CEO of ClickMail Marketing, citing privacy and e-mail campaign effectiveness concerns. The box at the top of WhiteHouse.gov allows anyone to subscribe by simply typing in an e-mail address and ZIP code. What's stopping my friend, or political opponent, from signing me up, Marini wondered? Adding an e-mail confirmation step would be "very easy to implement and would save a lot of headaches," he said.
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UK PROPOSES CUTTING WEB ACCESS TO FILE SHARERS
[SOURCE: Reuters, AUTHOR: Kate Holton]
Repeat offenders who persist in illegally downloading music from file-sharing sites such as Limewire could be blocked from accessing the Web under British government proposals issued on Tuesday. The government said it was publishing new ideas to speed up the process of tackling unlawful peer-to-peer file sharing to prevent damage to the content industries. Proposals include requiring Internet Service Providers to take action against individual repeat infringers, including blocking access to download sites, reducing broadband speeds or by temporarily suspending an individual's Internet account.
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JOURNALISM
AMERICANS NEED THE MEDIA TO GIVE US THE TRUTH IN THE HEALTHCARE DEBATE
[SOURCE: Los Angeles Times, AUTHOR: Neal Gabler]
[Commentary] As we head toward next month's congressional face-off on a national healthcare bill, the news media are infatuated with town hall meetings. Over and over, we see angry citizens screaming about a Big Government takeover of the healthcare system, shouting that they will lose their insurance or be forced to give up their doctors and denouncing "death panels" that will euthanize old people. Of course, none of this is even remotely true. These are all canards peddled by insurance companies terrified of losing their power and profits, by right-wing militants terrified of a victory for the president they hate and by the Republican Party, which has been commandeered by the insurance industry and the militants. But the lies have obviously had their effect. One can't expect Rush Limbaugh or Glenn Beck or Sarah Palin or the Republican Party or even the Democrats to provide serious, truthful assessments of a complex health plan. Truth has to come from somewhere else -- from a reliable, objective, trustworthy source. That source should be the media, and there has been, in fact, some excellent coverage of healthcare, especially by our better newspapers and especially lately when the untruths have become a torrent, rousing reporters to provide a corrective. But overall, the coverage has not been exactly edifying.
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HEALTH CARE FIGHT DRIVES THE NEWS NARRATIVE
[SOURCE: Project for Excellence in Journalism, AUTHOR: Mark Jurkowitz]
Two stories that have been cementing their status as the leading domestic and foreign policy concerns facing the country were at the top of the news agenda last week, according to the Pew Research Center's Project for Excellence in Journalism. For the fifth consecutive week, the debate over health care proved to be the No. 1 story in PEJ's News Coverage Index, filling 28% of the newshole from August 17-23. The health care debate also continued to overshadow the economic crisis as the top domestic story. The war in Afghanistan—which has eclipsed Iraq as the main focus of international attention—was the No. 3 story at 10%, exceeding its record level of the previous week and generating its highest amount of coverage since the PEJ began the News Coverage Index in January 2007. While last week's health care skirmishing generated almost as much attention as it had the week before (when it was 32%), the narrative shifted markedly. If "death panels" and town hall eruptions fueled the storyline a week earlier (Aug. 10-16), the term "public option" and a growing consensus that the White House was losing the political/message battle permeated coverage last week.
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DINKINS ADVISES PATERSON: STOP CALLING YOUR CRITICS RACIST
[SOURCE: New York Times, AUTHOR: Sam Roberts]
On Friday, Gov David Paterson (D-NY) said he was the victim of a racially motivated news media campaign to keep him from running for election next year. But former New York City Mayor David Dinkins, who has been close to the Paterson family for decades, took issue with the governor's comments. "Definitely he should get off the racist thing," Mr. Dinkins said. "Right or wrong, it's a fight you sure can't win." Mr. Dinkins also questioned whether Mr. Paterson really believed there was an orchestrated, biased campaign against him in the news media. "I don't think he means they're picking on him because he is black," Mr. Dinkins said. "I suspect he more means, were he not black — and maybe it's pretty hard to make the distinction — those kind of comments would not have been made." On Monday, a White House spokesman told reporters that President Obama disagreed with Governor Paterson's suggestion in the radio interview that the president would also be subjected to racially tinged news media attacks.
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BRINGING DIVERSITY TO THE NEWSROOM IS NOT THE SAME AS BRINGING DIVERSITY TO THE COVERAGE
[SOURCE: Nieman Watchdog, AUTHOR: Neil Reisner]
[Commentary] Let's stipulate that newsrooms should resemble the communities they serve and that after at least three decades of effort, according to surveys by the American Society of Newspaper Editors, they don't. So, maybe it's time to change the subject. Maybe it's time to acknowledge that "one from Column A and two from column B" efforts to make newsrooms diverse are really just tokenism in drag and won't inherently change how we cover minority or ethnic communities. Maybe it's time to put as much effort into the latter as we do the former.
http://benton.org/node/27337
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WHAT'S KEEPING NEWS ORGANIZATIONS FROM TRYING THE "LOW-PROFIT" MODEL?
[SOURCE: Nieman Journalism Lab, AUTHOR: Jim Barnett]
[Commentary] With so many journalism luminaries focused this week on new business models at Aspen Institute's FOCAS09 conference, I was a little surprised not to hear more about the potential for the low-profit limited liability corporation, or L3C. The L3C is a hybrid corporation that straddles the line between for-profit and nonprofit enterprise. Vermont last year was the first state to pass a law allowing formation of L3Cs, and Illinois this month became the most recent. Several other states are considering similar legislation, as is Congress. Some have looked to the L3C model as a solution for newspapers because it allows a corporation to take on investors who are willing to accept varying rates of return or possibly none at all. Foundations would be assured that their investment would qualify as a program-related investment a crucial distinction under tax law while socially responsible investors might be willing to settle for, say, a 3 percent return. So where is the grand experiment in L3C newspaper journalism? We're still waiting to find out. One of the big problems is that nobody really wants to go first, says Jay Hamilton, director of the DeWitt Center at Duke University. The concept remains fraught with uncertainties, not the least of which is whether newspapers can return to profitability after the recession.
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POST-NEWSPAPER JOURNALISM?
[SOURCE: On the Media, AUTHOR: Jeff Jarvis]
What would happen if a major U.S. city was suddenly without a daily newspaper? It seems increasingly possible these days and so the City University of New York Graduate School of Journalism set out to find an answer. They hired business analysts to create economic models for the news organizations that spring up. CUNY Professor Jeff Jarvis says journalism could thrive without a daily newspaper.
http://benton.org/node/27335
See also: Daily newspaper's death leaves Ann Arbor at a loss
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NATIONAL BROADBAND PLAN
KENTUCKY CABLE COMPANIES OPPOSE CONNECTED NATION
[SOURCE: Public Knowledge, AUTHOR: Art Brodsky]
[Commentary] Connected Nation is coming under increased pressure at its birthplace in Kentucky, with the cable industry and municipal utilities raising opposition to the telecom-based organization and Gov Steven Beshear (D) asking Connect Kentucky (CK) to respond to the municipal organization's concerns about CK. In a remarkable vote on Aug. 19, the Kentucky Cable Telecommunications Association (KCTA) board voted 8-2 not to endorse CK as the state-designated entity to map the state's broadband assets, despite what sources said were three attempts by Connect Kentucky to gain the group's endorsement. Rene True, Connect Kentucky's executive director, asked for the cable group's endorsement, drafting a letter for the group's signature that would be sent to Greg Haskamp, the state official in charge of broadband policy in the Finance and Administration cabinet. The letter, which the cable group declined to sign, would have pledged the cable group's full support for the Connect Kentucky application to be the state's mapping contractor.
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FCC SAYS IT IS SEEKING DIVERSE WORKSHOP LINEUP
[SOURCE: Broadcasting&Cable, AUTHOR: John Eggerton]
The Federal Communications Commission's National Broadband Plan workshops remain flexible -- more workshops and panelists are being and will be added "as people speak to us and as we see a need." Riffing on the 12 Days of Christmas, Blair Levin, who is leading the FCC's efforts, ticked off a list that was headlined by 15 participants from small and disadvantaged businesses and ended with "one each from the analyst world, legal, retail and the web." One critic replied that, even using Levin's list, by his count there were still "76 of 110" with "direct or indirect ties to industry," or 69%. And if just the workshops focused on policy were broken out, the number plummeted to 3%. "The comment that there has to be an absolute balance between Consumer Federation or Consumers Union and every provider, I just think that is unrealistic," says FCC spokesman Mark Wigfield. "If you are going to talk about broadband you have to talk to people who are providing broadband. What it shows is that we have got people providing broadband from many different corners of the broadband world.
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FCC ANNOUNCES PARTICIPANTS IN NATIONAL BROADBAND PLAN WORKSHOPS
[SOURCE: Federal Communications Commission]
This week the Federal Communications Commission will conduct five workshops on the National Broadband Plan. Topics are: 1) The use of broadband technology by the public safety and the homeland security communities (Tuesday at 9:00 a.m.) 2) Smart Grid, Broadband and Climate Change (Tuesday at 1:30 p.m.) 3) Economic Growth, Job Creation, and Private Investment (Wednesday at 9:30 a.m.) 4) Job Training (Wednesday at 1:30 p.m.) and 5) Technology/Applications and Devices (Thursday at 1:30 p.m.).
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FCC'S CONSUMER ADVISORY COMMITTEE TO CONSIDER NATIONAL BROADBAND PLAN
[SOURCE: Federal Communications Commission]
The Federal Communications Commission's Consumer Advisory Committee will meet Thursday September 10, 2009 and will focus upon broadband and the development of the National Broadband Plan. The Committee is expected to consider an outline of its recommendations to be submitted in connection with the National Broadband Plan Notice of Inquiry. Members of the public may address the Committee or may send written comments to: Scott Marshall, Designated Federal Officer of the Committee.
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BROADBAND OPPORTUNITIES FOR PEOPLE WITH DISABILITIES
[SOURCE: Federal Communications Commission, AUTHOR: Elizabeth Lyle]
[Commentary] Last week the Federal Communications Commission's National Broadband Plan team held a 90-minute town hall meeting with well over 100 participants, covering 16 sets of questions and allowed for participation via the Internet and a phone bridge. All in a day's work, you know. The workshop also included powerful remarks from Special Observers Kareem Dale, the President's Special Assistant for Disability Policy, and Marcie Roth, Senior Advisor, Disabilities Issues at FEMA. Chairman Genachowski and Commissioner Copps were also on hand. The format allowed the FCC to hear from a large number of thoughtful, knowledgeable, and passionate people who care deeply that the agency get this right. The FCC heard comments from the disability community, industry, academia, and government about today's broadband marketplace, the potential that broadband holds for people with disabilities, and strategies for achieving full access. The workshop covered a lot of topics in a short time, some of which include: universal design and the importance of considering accessibility early in the design and development phase; the challenges of interoperability; what companies are currently doing to make their products and support services accessible; consumer needs; technological advances that may drive the increased use of broadband by people with disabilities; sources of funding that could promote greater usage; how we should define broadband; the role of industry consortium in promoting accessibility; the role of government and regulation; and the need to include a principle of inclusion in the National Broadband Plan.
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PANELISTS TO FCC: RAISE E-RATE FUNDING CAP
[SOURCE: eSchool News, AUTHOR: ]
The e-Rate can play a significant role in the national broadband plan being developed by the Federal Communications Commission, panelists said during an August 20 hearing -- but for this to happen, the Commission must raise the program's funding cap. "When the e-Rate began, our connectivity consisted of a few dial-up connections in our school libraries," said Sheryl Abshire, chief technology officer for the Calcasieu Parish Public Schools. "Today, this has all changed. We now have over 20,000 computers connected to our network, and--at any given moment--over 12,000 of them are accessing the network. Each day, our students, teachers, and administrators make more than 5 million web page or network object requests, send or receive over 35,000 eMail messages, and transmit 18.5 gigabytes of data." Yet, as successful as the program has been in connecting schools and libraries to the Internet, demand for the e-Rate still far exceeds what is available for disbursement, Abshire testified.
http://benton.org/node/27339
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MORE ON INTERNET/BROADBAND
UNEVEN EFFORTS HAVE LEFT A 'DIGITAL DIVIDE' ACROSS NATION
[SOURCE: USAToday, AUTHOR: Leslie Cauley]
The average Internet download speed in the USA is 5.1 megabits per second, though consumers' online experiences can vary dramatically, depending on where they happen to live, a new report from the Communications Workers of America says. On balance, speeds in the Northeast and Mid-Atlantic were faster. Speeds in the South and in rural areas were markedly slower, according to the CWA's report. The big swing owes to the way broadband is deployed. In the U.S., it's basically up to individual companies to decide where to offer broadband. Big broadband players such as Verizon have tended to focus on densely populated areas, where they can get more subscribers. CWA says such disparities hurt consumers, and hurt bigger national aims. Uneven efforts by carriers and government "have left a digital divide across the country," says Larry Cohen, CWA president. CWA represents workers at AT&T, Verizon and other telecoms. In comparison with other countries, the USA does poorly.
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HOW MARKEY III HURTS THE INTERNET
[SOURCE: Internet Evolution, AUTHOR: Richard Bennett]
[Commentary] Reading the latest version of Congressman Ed Markey's (D-MA) Internet Freedom Preservation Act of 2009 is like going to your high school reunion: It forces you to think about issues that once appeared to be vitally important but which have faded into the background with time. When the first version of this bill appeared, in 2005, the Internet policy community was abuzz with fears that the telcos were poised to make major changes to the Internet. In the intervening years, Congress did exactly nothing to shore up the regulatory system, and the Internet appears to be working as well as it ever has: New services are still coming online, the spam is still flowing, and the denial-of-service attacks are still a regular occurrence. It's reasonable to ask how the Internet has managed to defy the odds and continue to function despite these forecasts of doom, and how it would be affected by passing the Markey bill at this late date. [Richard Bennett is a Research Fellow with the Information Technology & Innovation Foundation specializing in broadband networking and Internet policy.]
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LOOK HOW UBIQUITOUS WI-FI HAS BECOME
[SOURCE: GigaOm, AUTHOR: Om Malik]
[Commentary] Wi-Fi has become an indispensable part of our daily lives — at least for those of us who live in the United States, Decipher reported in a survey conducted on behalf of Devicescape, a networking software maker, chipmaker Intel, and Meraki, a networking hardware maker in San Francisco. Devicescape is a popular application among iPhone and iPod Touch users because it eliminates the need to constantly log onto AT&T or other Wi-Fi networks using a password. As a result, the numbers in this survey might be slightly skewed, so take them with a grain of salt. And anyway, what can you expect from a survey that's tied to three unabashed champions of Wi-Fi? But it is a good sign-post of the reality of Wi-Fi and its ubiquitous nature. Nearly 98 percent of Wi-Fi consumers log onto Wi-Fi networks once daily, while nearly 57 percent log in every day, according to the Decipher's survey of 8,000 users of the technology.
http://benton.org/node/27333
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WIRELESS
IPHONE VS GOOGLE VOICE
[SOURCE: Los Angeles Times, AUTHOR: Editorial staff]
[Commentary] The least attractive aspect of Apple's captivating iPhone may be the limits imposed by Apple and its iPhone partner, AT&T. Apple's process for approving iPhone applications remains maddeningly opaque -- for instance, programs similar to Google Voice have been approved, although a few were rejected later. And developers can't succeed unless they get into the App Store, the only sure way to reach millions of iPhone users. Nevertheless, the FCC shouldn't delve any further into the Google Voice dispute. Neither Apple nor AT&T are gatekeepers in the competitive mobile market, and until they start to approach that point, the government shouldn't force them to make life easy for their competitors. We think the wiser course for Apple and AT&T would be to welcome all compatible programs to their devices. But it's their call. Google Voice users can get to the service through the iPhone's Web browser, but if that isn't slick enough for them, they can always switch to another phone.
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AT&T CONFIRMS DATA PLAN REQUIREMENT
[SOURCE: MediaPost, AUTHOR: ]
AT&T has confirmed that starting Sept. 6 it will mandate that customers using a smartphone will have to subscribe to a data plan. That means no more using your iPhone just for making calls while appearing techno-savvy. AT&T said the vast majority of its smartphone customers already have data plans for email, mobile Web access and using applications. But it wants to bring the holdouts along to increase customer satisfaction by [making decisions for the consumer] and by not having to worry about fluctuating phone bills. It also happens to fit with the wireless carrier's goal of boosting revenue by increasing mobile data usage.
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WHY DID APPLE OKAY RINGCENTRAL?
[SOURCE: CNNMoney.com, AUTHOR: Philip Elmer-DeWitt]
Here's a question the Federal Communications Commission neglected to ask Apple in its inquiry into why the company rejected — or as Apple prefers, declined to approve — Google Voice: Why has a free app that does essentially the same thing — and would seem to raise the same red flags for Apple — been sitting on the App Store for nearly 10 months? The app is called RingCentral Mobile and not only does it perform most of the same functions as the Google app that's making all the headlines — universal telephone number, voicemail, dial-by-name directory, click-to-call, call forwarding, answering rules, call screening, music on hold, etc. — it was the template on which both Google Voice, and its predecessor, GrandCentral, were built.
http://benton.org/node/27332
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MEXICO TO AUCTION NEW MOBILE PHONE FREQUENCIES
[SOURCE: Reuters, AUTHOR: ]
Mexico will auction new mobile telephone frequencies by early September to boost competition in a market dominated by tycoon Carlos Slim. Communications and Transport Minister Juan Molinar said that the 1.7 and 1.9 Ghz frequencies will be up for grabs in the sale. "The rules should be published by the end of the month or in early September," Molinar said. Slim's America Movil controls close to 80 percent of the mobile telephone market in Mexico, where it operates under the Telcel brand. Spain's Telefonica is Mexico's second largest cellphone operator and has been waiting for years for the government to auction more spectrum so it can expand its services.
http://benton.org/node/27331
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FTC, DOJ CLEAR SPRINT'S VIRGIN MOBILE BUY
[SOURCE: CongressDaily, AUTHOR: Andrew Noyes]
The Federal Trade Commission and Justice Department have given their blessings for Sprint-Nextel's planned $483 million merger with Virgin Mobile USA. The deal could still be subject to review by the Federal Communications Commission, which has yet to issue a public notice on the matter. Virgin Mobile holds a small number of international licenses, which need to be transferred and require approval by the FCC
http://benton.org/node/27345
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HEALTH & MEDIA
HEALTH CARE INDUSTRY A CHALLENGE, OPPORTUNITY FOR TELECOM
[SOURCE: TelephonyOnline, AUTHOR: Carol Wilson]
The health care industry has long been a major consumer of bandwidth and a vertical market heavily targeted by telecom with specialized solutions. But trends in demographics, technology and the health care industry itself are making the telehealth and telemedicine markets of increasing interest to telecom service providers. Two specific trends are taking hold in a major way: The health care industry's need to use information technology and telecommunications to operate more efficiently, and an aging population's need and desire to use remote health care monitoring to promote better care for the chronically ill in their own homes. While often moving separately, those two trends converge to create a booming demand for health care networking that ties together all the piece parts of the sprawling U.S. health care system: hospitals and clinics, doctors and other health care professionals, insurance payers including the federal government, and patients as well as their caregivers. Against this backdrop, new business models are emerging. Some of these include the telecom service provider as a valued partner and others reduce telecom to a transport service, albeit a bigger, more mobile and more secure pipe.
http://benton.org/node/27341
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RESEARCH TROVE: PATIENTS' ONLINE DATA
[SOURCE: New York Times, AUTHOR: Sarah Arnquist]
Since the Internet's earliest days, patients have used the Web to share experiences and learn about diseases and treatments. But now advocates say that online communities have the potential to transform medical research — especially into rare diseases that lack the number of patients needed for large-scale studies and rarely attract research financing from the drug industry. Also, it empowers patients to contribute, ask questions and help lead the way to discoveries. Scientists and entrepreneurs are increasingly exploring ways to tap that potential, and not just for rare diseases. Several private companies are now collecting patient data and genetic information online to use in recruiting patients for clinical trials, conducting research internally or to sell to drug and biotechnology companies. Supporters of this model — sometimes called crowd-sourcing or open-source research — call it democratization of research and say they are pioneering new models that put patients in control of their data and build bridges between researchers, patients and their doctors. They say these methods are far cheaper and faster than traditional research, which has high start-up costs and relies heavily on clinicians. Still, some experts are skeptical.
http://benton.org/node/27354
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