Telecommunications

Download or read book Telecommunications written by Mark L. Goldstein and published by DIANE Publishing. This book was released on 2011-04 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Telemedicine offers a way to improve health care access for patients in rural areas. The FCC's Rural Health Care Program provides discounts on rural health care providers' telecomm. and info. services and funds broadband infrastructure and services. This report reviewed: (1) how FCC has managed the primary program to meet the needs of rural health care providers, and how well the program has addressed those needs; (2) how FCC's design and implementation of the pilot program affected participants; and (3) FCC's performance goals and measures for both the primary program and the pilot program, and how these goals compare with the characteristics of successful performance goals and measures. Illus. This is a print on demand report.