FCC’s National Broadband Plan: Healthcare Chapter 10 (March 2010)
Excerpt: “Mobile health is a new frontier in health innovation. This field encompasses applications, devices and communications networks that allow clinicians and patients to give and receive care anywhere at any time. Physicians download diagnostic data, lab results, images and drug information to handheld devices like PDAs and Smartphones; emergency medical responders use field laptops to keep track of patient information and records; and patients use health monitoring devices and sensors that accompany them everywhere. Through capabilities like these, mobile health offers convenience critical to improving consumer engagement and clinician responsiveness.” Free Download
Why we recommend it: In the US especially, so many of the barriers for mobile health services are related to the government: Reimbursement, liability, medical device status, etc. The FCC put together an entire chapter on connected health in its recently published National Broadband Plan. While the document is largely filled with suggestion for other agencies, the FCC has outlined many of the key regulatory barriers facing mHealth and in some cases it has suggested other agencies do something about them.
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