ARRA – Healthcare
Purpose of the bill is to invest in America’s infrastructure in an effort to stimulate economic growth.
Division B Title VI -BROADBAND TECHNOLOGY OPPORTUNITIES PROGRAM
Offers 7.2 billion dollars in government funding towards providing underprivileged and underserved schools, libraries, medical and healthcare providers, community colleges and other institutions of higher education
What this mean for your hospital or medical facility?
If your facility does not have access to high speed broadband communications, you are eligible to receive government grants that will pay to update your current broadband access or lack thereof.
Why does our facility need high speed broadband communication access?
Do to the emergence of electronic medical records and the movement of a paper-free healthcare system in America.
According to ABC news, President Obama has been quoted in saying the government will push for electronic health records for all Americans within five years in order to save both dollars and lives.
The ARRA provides your medical facility with the opportunity to use government funds to prepare for the future healthcare.
How Skycasters can help.
Skycasters provides high-speed satellite broadband communications anywhere in the continental US, Hawaii, and parts of Alaska.
No matter where your facility is located, we can provide broadband access fast – typically within 10 days via a 1.2 meter satellite dish. Whereas with a terrestrial line, you will have to wait months maybe even years to lay enough fiber optic cable to connect to high-speed broadband.