Health Care Ripe to Join the Technology Revolution

Hospitals and health care are the last of the industrial-age institutions that have yet to go online as department stores, banks, and venues entertainment have already gone, panelists said at the Broadband Breakfast Club Tuesday morning. With the Federal Communications Commission charged with developing a National Broadband Plan by February 2010, health care is one obvious area potentially impacted by greater broadband. One of the most significant ways in which broadband is likely to impact health care is through the integration of technology into the fabric on consumers' lives, as with greater use of smart phones.