High-speed broadband is essential to Telehealth. Simply put, without high-speed broadband the major benefits of Telehealth, which rely on diagnostic imaging and video streams, are unavailable to households and businesses. This is critical to rural Americans who tend to live at significant distances from town centers where healthcare facilities are located.
Big Bang Broadband works with municipal and utility cooperatives to design networks that optimize broadband information flows and interconnectedness to communities, so that the greatest number of residents can afford the speeds necessary to connect to healthcare providers via Telehealth applications.
The next step is to educate area healthcare providers about the game-changing new network! Exciting options in care become instantly accessible when robust broadband is available to healthcare institutions. Remote guidance for robotic surgery is right around the corner and video consults with specialists during surgery are being utilized now.
Conversely, when patients can’t access advanced services because they don’t have reliable access to the Internet, the healthcare provider doesn’t prioritize the implementation of those systems. We work with healthcare facilities to ensure that advanced applications that rely on robust broadband get a fresh look, in light of the newly deployed, advanced network capabilities, as designed by BBB. The more patients who have access to broadband services, the higher Telehealth adoption rates will be. Together, we can facilitate the adoption of these expedient alternatives to in-person visits and bring advanced telemedicine to the most remote locations of the service area and reduce the cost of healthcare for the entire community.