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Report: Increased Wellness and Economic Return of Universal Broadband Infrastructure

Report: Increased Wellness and Economic Return of Universal Broadband Infrastructure

Ry Marcattilio-McCracken

April 25, 2023

Telehealth has the potential to revolutionize healthcare, but it remains unavailable to the millions of Americans who lack Internet access. To make telehealth available to the populations that need it most (i.e. rural Black populations), we need to expand broadband infrastructure. This report from Southern Rural Black Women’s Initiative and ILSR demonstrates that the cost of building and maintaining universal Internet infrastructure would be quickly recouped by the massive economic returns of wider telehealth access.  READ MORE


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