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Policymakers: Broadband Funding Key to Bringing Telehealth Access to Rural Areas

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Chattanooga is bullish on telemedicine, and the public gigabit effort has already improved medical practices in the city,” writes Craig Settles in Government Technology magazine. Supporting ‘the Deployment of Broadband’ to Health Facilities. The FCC is looking to follow a similar path.

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New Illinois Law Highlights Efforts to Expand Rural Telehealth Access

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Access to telehealth services is expanding throughout the United States, and especially in rural communities , where lawmakers increasingly see technologies like virtual visits and remote patient management (RPM) as a means to extend care to those who live in areas too remote to effectively access high-quality care in person.