The FCC has presented its National Broadband Plan, which advocates bringing affordable broadband access to more Americans, and also suggests that more broadband can help boost health care IT in the United States. Specifically, the FCC is claiming that increased broadband to physicians and hospitals will help transmit increasingly larger files, such as medical imaging, and will help promote the development of tools such as smartphone applications for physicians and patients.
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The Federal Communications Commission is advocating
smartphone applications for physicians, along with increased broadband
connectivity to hospitals and physicians that currently lack the service, as
part of its just-revealed National Broadband Plan. The FCC cites the rising
need f…