News by Topic: Technology

News from the past 14 days. Please visit the News Archive for earlier stories.

Dealing with Broadband's Rural Downside     Top Story 
Nov 19, 2009 -- Daily Yonder article discusses how broadband will benefit rural communities, but it has downsides, too. Rural communities should plan now to make this new technology serve their interests.

Information Exchanges Let Doctors Share Patient Data Efficiently     Top Story 
Nov 18, 2009 -- InformationWeek Healthcare Newsletter reports that several new networks are being launched across the country, and while they vary in size, scope, and clientele, the goals and challenges are similar.

Rewiring an Old Fund for Rural Broadband     Top Story 
Nov 17, 2009 -- Daily Yonder article reports that over the past two weeks, as health care legislation passed by a hair through the U.S. Congress, other policy changes have steadily unfolded that will improve the fortunes of rural community broadband.

Comment Sought on Health Care Delivery Elements of National Broadband Plan     Top Story 
Nov 16, 2009 -- Comments are being sought by the FCC on the health care delivery elements of the national broadband plan, as well as seeking input relating to the universal service rural health care support mechanism and the rural health care Pilot Program, specifically as such programs may assist in the deployment and adoption of broadband services.

Electronic Health Records Not Yet Making Impact, Patients Turn to Web for Advice
Nov 16, 2009 -- Kaiser Health News reports that as the United States launches "an ambitious program, backed by $19 billion in government incentives, to accelerate the adoption of computerized patient records in doctors' offices and hospitals," a new study of 3,000 hospitals "has found little difference in the cost and quality of care," The New York Times reports.

National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA); Broadband Initiatives Program and Broadband Technology Opportunities Program; Joint Request for Information     Federal Register 
Nov 16, 2009 -- Rural Utilities Service (RUS) and NTIA announce the release of a joint Request for Information seeking public comment on certain issues relating to the implementation of the Broadband Initiatives Program (BIP) and the Broadband Technology Opportunities Program (BTOP).

Smart Partner for the Broadband Dance     Top Story 
Nov 13, 2009 -- Daily Yonder article tells how innovations in utility data-tracking (now backed with federal funds) can take rural broadband efforts several jazzy steps forward.

Broadband Grants to be Made More Quickly     Top Story 
Nov 12, 2009 -- Daily Yonder article reports that the Obama Administration promised that it would work more quickly to issue money under the $7.2 billion broadband deployment grant program.

UA Program Helps Rural Doctors Stay Connected
Nov 9, 2009 -- Green Valley News & Sun, (AZ) article tells of a new facility in Phoenix, known as the T-Health Institute, that will help train doctors in telemedicine and allow practitioners to treat patients in rural communities.