Rural technology resources related to rural health and human services, with information provided by the Rural Assistance Center Copyright 2009 Rural Assistance Center http://www.raconline.org/info_guides/technology/ A competition to promote innovation and increase implementation of wireless related technology for a better world. -- Vodaphone America's Foundation http://www.raconline.org/funding/funding_details.php?funding_id=2276 Fri, 20 Nov 2009 12:12:05 CST http://www.raconline.org/funding/funding_details.php?funding_id=2276 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. http://www.dailyyonder.com/dealing-broadbands-rural-downside/2009/11/18/2460 Thu, 19 Nov 2009 09:49:15 CST http://www.dailyyonder.com/dealing-broadbands-rural-downside/2009/11/18/2460 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. http://www.dailyyonder.com/rewiring-old-fund-rural-broadband/2009/11/17/2455 Tue, 17 Nov 2009 09:19:52 CST http://www.dailyyonder.com/rewiring-old-fund-rural-broadband/2009/11/17/2455 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. http://www.kaiserhealthnews.org/Daily-Reports/2009/November/16/electronic-medical-records.aspx Mon, 16 Nov 2009 10:19:25 CST http://www.kaiserhealthnews.org/Daily-Reports/2009/November/16/electronic-medical-records.aspx 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. http://www.raconline.org/news/news_details.php?news_id=12548 Mon, 16 Nov 2009 10:04:20 CST http://www.raconline.org/news/news_details.php?news_id=12548 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). http://edocket.access.gpo.gov/2009/E9-27359.htm Mon, 16 Nov 2009 09:17:47 CST http://edocket.access.gpo.gov/2009/E9-27359.htm Daily Yonder article tells how innovations in utility data-tracking (now backed with federal funds) can take rural broadband efforts several jazzy steps forward. http://www.dailyyonder.com/smart-partner-broadband-dance/2009/11/12/2443 Fri, 13 Nov 2009 09:38:20 CST http://www.dailyyonder.com/smart-partner-broadband-dance/2009/11/12/2443 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. http://www.dailyyonder.com/broadband-grants-be-made-more-quickly/2009/11/11/2446 Thu, 12 Nov 2009 09:23:15 CST http://www.dailyyonder.com/broadband-grants-be-made-more-quickly/2009/11/11/2446 Works towards ensuring all nonprofits, nongovernmental organizations, and community-based organizations have the latest professional hardware, software, and services they need to operate. Offers access free products, information, resources, and support for such entities. http://home.techsoup.org/pages/default.aspx Mon, 09 Nov 2009 13:25:32 CST http://home.techsoup.org/pages/default.aspx 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. http://www.gvnews.com/articles/2009/11/07/news/35atelemed.txt Mon, 09 Nov 2009 10:31:28 CST http://www.gvnews.com/articles/2009/11/07/news/35atelemed.txt U.S. Senator Tom Udall, D-N.M. today introduced legislation, the Rural TECH (Telemedicine Enhancing Community Health) Act of 2009, to increase access to health care for rural Americans who often dont have medical specialists in their communities or must travel long distances for care. http://tomudall.senate.gov/record.cfm?id=319690 Fri, 06 Nov 2009 07:09:33 CST http://tomudall.senate.gov/record.cfm?id=319690 Bangor Daily News, (ME) article tells of teletrauma," a powerful new technology that lends the resources of Maines second-largest trauma center to the smallest and farthest-flung of the states community hospitals. http://www.bangordailynews.com/detail/127905.html Tue, 03 Nov 2009 10:41:02 CST http://www.bangordailynews.com/detail/127905.html Daily Yonder article tells the story of how the federal government helped bring electricity to rural America and how it teaches an important lesson to those who are now deciding how to spend $7 billion on extending broadband to the countryside. http://www.dailyyonder.com/rural-broadband-lets-talk-about-cost/2009/11/03/2429 Tue, 03 Nov 2009 07:16:52 CST http://www.dailyyonder.com/rural-broadband-lets-talk-about-cost/2009/11/03/2429 Daily Yonder article tells how with the big telecommunications companies and Sen. John McCain on one side, technology pioneers and Sen. Al Franken on the other, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) voted to establish rules enforcing equal access to the Internet. http://www.dailyyonder.com/fcc-votes-favor-net-neutrality/2009/10/28/2419 Wed, 28 Oct 2009 10:15:16 CST http://www.dailyyonder.com/fcc-votes-favor-net-neutrality/2009/10/28/2419 Robert Wood Johnson Foundation article reports that hospitals that serve a disproportionately large share of poor patients are lagging behind other hospitals in adopting electronic health records (EHR), leading to a digital divide that could exacerbate health care disparities. http://www.rwjf.org/newsroom/product.jsp?id=50329 Tue, 27 Oct 2009 10:03:51 CST http://www.rwjf.org/newsroom/product.jsp?id=50329 Under Secretary for Rural Development Dallas Tonsager today participated in events in Alaska commemorating the 60th anniversary of the creation of the U.S. Department of Agriculture's housing programs. http://www.raconline.org/news/news_details.php?news_id=12422 Mon, 26 Oct 2009 10:43:01 CST http://www.raconline.org/news/news_details.php?news_id=12422 The tiny rural community of Claudville, Virginia, pop. 916, is making Internet history as the first place in the nation to make use of TV white spaces broadcast frequencies freed in the transfer to digital television for wireless high-speed Internet service. http://www.dailyyonder.com/virginia-burg-buzzes-broadband-tv-white-spaces/2009/10/22/2412 Fri, 23 Oct 2009 10:16:15 CST http://www.dailyyonder.com/virginia-burg-buzzes-broadband-tv-white-spaces/2009/10/22/2412 Daily Yonder article tells how the current battle over net neutrality has deep roots, oddly enough, in rural America. http://www.dailyyonder.com/speak-your-piece-internet-ghosts/2009/10/22/2411 Thu, 22 Oct 2009 09:59:45 CST http://www.dailyyonder.com/speak-your-piece-internet-ghosts/2009/10/22/2411 Funding to expand the adoption of e-commerce strategies by communities, small/micro businesses, and entrepreneurs across the country. -- Southern Rural Development Center http://www.raconline.org/funding/funding_details.php?funding_id=2245 Thu, 17 Sep 2009 10:31:39 CST http://www.raconline.org/funding/funding_details.php?funding_id=2245 Discusses the benefits of broadband high speed Internet service in rural communities in relation to employment and economic growth. -- USDA Economic Research Service http://www.ers.usda.gov/AmberWaves/September09/PDF/Broadband.pdf Mon, 24 Aug 2009 08:07:45 CST http://www.ers.usda.gov/AmberWaves/September09/PDF/Broadband.pdf This report analyzes (1) rural broadband use by consumers, the community-at-large, and businesses; (2) rural broadband availability; and (3) broadband's social and economic effects on rural areas. -- USDA Economic Research Service http://www.ers.usda.gov/Publications/ERR78/ERR78.pdf Mon, 24 Aug 2009 07:55:56 CST http://www.ers.usda.gov/Publications/ERR78/ERR78.pdf Grant, loan, and loan guarantee assistance to rural residents, rural communities, and rural utility systems. -- USDA Rural Development http://www.raconline.org/funding/funding_details.php?funding_id=2214 Fri, 24 Jul 2009 12:24:50 CST http://www.raconline.org/funding/funding_details.php?funding_id=2214 Reports findings from an April 2009 survey on the use of broadband Internet connections among Americans. Includes data by age groups, income brackets, those living in rural areas, education level, and ethnicity. -- Pew Internet and American Life Project http://www.pewinternet.org/Reports/2009/10-Home-Broadband-Adoption-2009.aspx?r=1 Wed, 17 Jun 2009 15:53:28 CST http://www.pewinternet.org/Reports/2009/10-Home-Broadband-Adoption-2009.aspx?r=1 Comments and recommendations on the National Broadband Plan from the Rural Internet and Broadband Policy Group - organizations dedicated to rural broadband and rural development. -- Rural Policy Research Institute http://www.rupri.org/Forms/BroadbandComments_PolicyGroup_June09.pdf Thu, 11 Jun 2009 09:03:35 CST http://www.rupri.org/Forms/BroadbandComments_PolicyGroup_June09.pdf Comments on the modification of the existing Universal Service Fund (USF) programs to provide access to all Americans, particularly rural populations. -- Rural Policy Research Institute http://www.rupri.org/Forms/BroadbandComments_Bentonetal_June09.pdf Thu, 11 Jun 2009 08:59:02 CST http://www.rupri.org/Forms/BroadbandComments_Bentonetal_June09.pdf Dedicated to assuring that rural areas in the United States have access to the information and support they need to obtain and use advanced telecommunications services and technology for social and economic development. http://www.rtcconference.org/rtc/ Thu, 11 Jun 2009 08:48:25 CST http://www.rtcconference.org/rtc/ Contains the comments shared by the Rural Internet and Broadband Policy Group with the FCC (Federal Communications Commission) to create a broadband plan that creates opportunity for rural America and the nation as a whole. -- Center for Rural Strategies http://www.ruralstrategies.org/projects/vacanttv/update.6.10.09/broadband_group_comments.pdf Wed, 10 Jun 2009 15:16:38 CST http://www.ruralstrategies.org/projects/vacanttv/update.6.10.09/broadband_group_comments.pdf Provides frequently asked questions and guides on how community leaders and stake holders can bring broadband to their communities and to help their organizations use digital technology to achieve goals and improve their social and economic well-being. -- Southern Rural Development Center http://srdc.msstate.edu/ecommerce/curricula/connecting_communities/index.html Thu, 04 Jun 2009 09:31:52 CST http://srdc.msstate.edu/ecommerce/curricula/connecting_communities/index.html Describes a comprehensive rural broadband strategy to Congress that includes recommendations for improving interagency coordination of broadband policies and initiatives for assessing broadband needs in rural areas, and for specific federal agency programs and resources to overcome the obstacles that currently impede rural broadband deployment. -- Federal Communications Commission http://hraunfoss.fcc.gov/edocs_public/attachmatch/DOC-291012A1.pdf Tue, 02 Jun 2009 10:25:20 CST http://hraunfoss.fcc.gov/edocs_public/attachmatch/DOC-291012A1.pdf Award for the purchase, installation, and/or upgrading of information technologies that enhance access to health information. -- National Network of Libraries of Medicine, Greater Midwest Region http://www.raconline.org/funding/funding_details.php?funding_id=2138 Mon, 04 May 2009 10:55:53 CST http://www.raconline.org/funding/funding_details.php?funding_id=2138