3 Steps to Advancing Telehealth Networks

Telehealth vendors have the frustrating experience of seeing their best efforts to serve rural populations thwarted by pathetic broadband connections. Or worse, no broadband at all. At least vendors and healthcare facilities have the benefit of serving urban areas because there, the broadband is always good. Or is it? Urban broadband availability is still a problem. Cities suffer from the legacy of broadband’s origins. Three steps to advancing telehealth networks:

1. Determine your role in community broadband
2. Lobby on behalf of local healthcare professionals and patients
3. Pilot test on community broadband

[Craig Settles helps communities get more from their broadband networks. His latest analysis report is Telehealth & Broadband: In Sickness and In Health, advocates for telehealth providers and community networks uniting]