A fundamental disconnect exists between the immediate needs of rural...
A fundamental disconnect exists between the immediate needs of rural healthcare providers and the FCC’s goals for buildout of the national broadband network, ProForma Healthcare Solutions told the Wireline Bureau in comments submitted Thursday in docket 02-60 (http://xrl.us/bm3i26). Few rural…
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hospitals have the resources to manage large infrastructure projects such as the construction of regional broadband networks or connecting to a nationwide backbone data network as required by the rural healthcare pilot programs, ProForma said. It submitted a proposed roadmap it said would provide “clear direction” on how to build a “Rural Trust” to leverage FCC financial support to provide rural healthcare providers with the technology they need to “provide leading-edge integrated services and solutions enabled by robust, fiber-based broadband.” The trust would be an extension of a November 2007 FCC award of $9.6 million to Big Bend Health and the Florida Agency for Health Care Administration, and would provide a 100 Gbps National LambdaRail backhaul network to connect more than 20 rural hospitals between Tallahassee, Fla., and Birmingham, Ala.