[1st-mile-nm] NM Health care groups get OK for broadband network

[Richard Lowenberg]

This project has been in the works for a number of years.
It is heartening to know that it may now proceed.
RL
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Health care groups get OK for broadband network

New Mexico Business Weekly
by Dennis Domrzalski
Tuesday, December 18, 2012

http://www.bizjournals.com/albuquerque/news/2012/12/18/FCC-approves-spending-for-NM-network.html?ana=fbk

The U.S. Federal Communications Commission has given several New Mexico 
health care organizations approval to spend $15.4 million on building a 
telehealth broadband network infrastructure in rural parts of the state 
and the Navajo Nation.

The U.S. Federal Communications Commission has given several New Mexico 
health care organizations approval to spend $15.4 million on building a 
telehealth broadband network infrastructure in rural parts of the state 
and the Navajo Nation.

The U.S. Federal Communications Commission has given several New Mexico 
health care organizations approval to spend $15.4 million on building a 
telehealth broadband network infrastructure in rural parts of the state 
and the Navajo Nation.

That money will be spent over the next four years as part of the FCC’s 
Rural Health Care Pilot Program, said Dr. Dale Alverson, medical 
director of the University of New Mexico’s Center for Telehealth.

Several health care organizations had applied for money as part of the 
project, and UNM’s Health Sciences Center is helping manage it. The FCC 
recently sent final notifications that the entities, including San Juan 
Regional Medical Center, UNM and Presbyterian Healthcare Systems, can 
spend it on the projects, Alverson said.

The FCC funds represent 85 percent of the cost of the project. The 
organizations will contribute the remaining 15 percent, Alverson added.

The broadband network has the potential to link hundreds of health care 
sites to support telemedicine services, Alverson said.




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Richard Lowenberg
1st-Mile Institute
Box 8001, Santa Fe, NM 87504
505-989-9110 / 505-603-5200
www.1st-mile.com   rl at 1st-mile.com
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