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e-Health 2025 Conference and Tradeshow
2025-06-01 - 2025-06-03    
10:00 am - 5:00 pm
The 2025 e-Health Conference provides an exciting opportunity to hear from your peers and engage with MEDITECH.
HIMSS Europe
2025-06-10 - 2025-06-12    
8:30 am - 5:00 pm
Transforming Healthcare in Paris From June 10-12, 2025, the HIMSS European Health Conference & Exhibition will convene in Paris to bring together Europe’s foremost health [...]
38th World Congress on  Pharmacology
2025-06-23 - 2025-06-24    
11:00 am - 4:00 pm
About the Conference Conference Series cordially invites participants from around the world to attend the 38th World Congress on Pharmacology, scheduled for June 23-24, 2025 [...]
2025 Clinical Informatics Symposium
2025-06-24 - 2025-06-25    
11:00 am - 4:00 pm
Virtual Event June 24th - 25th Explore the agenda for MEDITECH's 2025 Clinical Informatics Symposium. Embrace the future of healthcare at MEDITECH’s 2025 Clinical Informatics [...]
International Healthcare Medical Device Exhibition
2025-06-25 - 2025-06-27    
8:30 am - 5:00 pm
Japan Health will gather over 400 innovative healthcare companies from Japan and overseas, offering a unique opportunity to experience cutting-edge solutions and connect directly with [...]
Electronic Medical Records Boot Camp
2025-06-30 - 2025-07-01    
10:30 am - 5:30 pm
The Electronic Medical Records Boot Camp is a two-day intensive boot camp of seminars and hands-on analytical sessions to provide an overview of electronic health [...]
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10 Jun 25
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23 Jun 25
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25 Jun 25
Suminoe-Ku, Osaka 559-0034
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FCC doles out $3.7 million more to aid COVID-19 telehealth deployment

FCC doles out $3.7 million more to aid COVID-19 telehealth deployment
Senior man and his doctor having video conference with experienced medical worker

The Federal Communications Commission approved the next five funding applications for the COVID-19 Telehealth Program, which includes health centers from coast to coast.

WHY IT MATTERS

These include NYU Langone Health in New York City; St. John’s Well Child and Family Center in Los Angeles; Health Partners of Western Ohio in Lima; Banyan Community Health Center in Coral Gables, Florida; and the University of Michigan Hospital in Ann Arbor.

Award amounts ranged from $380,000 to just under $1 million. Langone Health, for example, was awarded $983,772 to employ telehealth in operating rooms and conference-room spaces that have been converted into ICUs. The aim of the project is to help doctors and other caregivers carefully monitor ICU patients from separate floors, which could help reduce exposure to the coronavirus and maximize the limited supply of personal protective equipment.

In other projects, telehealth services will be set up to reach low-income and high-risk patients so they can receive medical care at home during the pandemic, and telemedicine carts will be deployed so patients can receive medical care at community locations.

All told, the FCC’s telehealth funding program now has reached 11 healthcare provider organizations in 8 states for a total of $6.94 million. It’s part of the recently enacted CARES Act, in which Congress appropriated $200 million to the FCC to support deployment of telehealth services during the pandemic.

Just days after the application period opened on April 13, some $3.23 million was approved to help health systems deploy telemedicine technology, connected devices and remote patient-monitoring tools.

The FCC also noted it would continue to evaluate applications and distribute additional funding on a rolling basis. The details required for each of the application steps can be found in the FCC’s new public notice.

THE LARGER TREND

Telehealth has emerged as a key care technology for multiple groups during the pandemic, with some practices experiencing an explosion of telehealth use, mostly for acute and chronic-condition-care visits.

The technology also could help the growing number of practices facing closure, with telehealth vendors also recognizing the opportunity to help these members of the healthcare ecosystem brace for uncertain times.

ON THE RECORD

“Telehealth is proving to be an invaluable resource to treat patients during the coronavirus pandemic,” FCC Chairman Ajit Pai said in a statement. “From implementing remote patient monitoring to helping low-income patients receive care in their communities, I am confident that the funding we approved today will help healthcare providers expand their telehealth efforts in New York, Michigan and elsewhere.”