Report: Increased Wellness and Economic Return of Universal Broadband Infrastructure

Date: 25 Apr 2023 | posted in: MuniNetworks | 0 Facebooktwitterredditmail

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

Announcing the Digital Health Story Collection – Share Your Telehealth Experience With Us

Date: 6 Jan 2022 | posted in: MuniNetworks | 0 Facebooktwitterredditmail

Today we launch the Digital Health Story Collection, an opportunity for health care providers and health care users to share experiences with or difficulties accessing telehealth care across the country. Share your story and help us tell policymakers why having access to fast, affordable, and reliable Internet service is critical for health and well-being.  … Read More

Going Wireless for Students and Seniors in Tucson

Date: 19 Feb 2021 | posted in: MuniNetworks | 0 Facebooktwitterredditmail

As the COVID crisis swept across Arizona and forced students to attend school remotely last spring, Boyce began to look for a way to ensure that the thousands of students who didn’t have Internet access at home wouldn’t be left behind. In a city with a population of about 530,000, an estimated 30 percent of city residents, or about 150,000 Tucsonans, don’t subscribe to wireline broadband. … Read More

Pilot Project Brings Telehealth to Barbershops and Salons for Hypertension Screening

Date: 24 Aug 2020 | posted in: MuniNetworks | 0 Facebooktwitterredditmail

A new pilot project is bringing telehealth services to barbershops and salons. The aim is to leverage all of the unique characteristics of these businesses to pioneer early detection and eventually ongoing treatment of high blood pressure and the constellation of associated complications, which disproportionately affect African Americans.… Read More

“We Can’t Build It and Just Assume People Will Come”: Digital Inclusion and Equity Today

Date: 11 Aug 2020 | posted in: MuniNetworks | 0 Facebooktwitterredditmail

Today on the podcast we welcome Angela Siefer and Craig Settles. Together, they untangle the long history of broadband subsidies and racial bias, and how that has come to influence who has affordable connection options today. They also talk about the current stage of telehealth and the ramifications of the Digital Equity Act since its adoption a year ago.… Read More

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