On Tuesday, via webcast from the UC Davis Cancer Center, we were introduced, with the flip of a switch, to another major infrastructure project, the California Telehealth Network, heralded by Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger as the "future of medicine. Read More>>>
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Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger joined state and federal officials Tuesday to launch the California Telehealth Network, intended to bring medical care to underserved areas statewide. Read More>>>
Imagine a doctor listening to the heartbeat of a patient half a world away. Or a young child opening wide into the peering lens of a high-definition camera. And doctors collaborating online, exchanging digital X-rays, MRIs and potential diagnoses. Telemedicine's future took another leap forward [...]
Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger officially launched the California Telehealth Network on Tuesday at the University of California-Davis Cancer Center in Sacramento. Schwarzenegger lumped the telecommunications network's development in with construction of bridges, highways and other concrete-and-steel projects included in his administration's $60 billion infrastructure development program, [...]
Congresswoman Doris Matsui wants to fill the need for speed — at least on the Internet. California will receive $205 million for seven broadband projects from the federal stimulus, giving mostly low-income communities access to high-speed Internet access. Despite being the center of the high-tech [...]
The public-private California Emerging Technology Fund, the University of California — which administers the system — and companies such AT&T Inc. also provided funding for the project. AT&T landed the contract to build a medical-grade telecommunications system, according to the university. Read More>>>
Yesterday, California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger was joined by local technology and health care leaders as well as U.S. Chief Technology Officer Aneesh Chopra to announce the launch of the California Telehealth Network (CTN) – the largest dedicated telehealth network in the country. The ambitious project [...]
The country's most ambitious foray yet into the emerging field of telemedicine was launched in a ceremony Tuesday at the UC Davis Medical Center, which will serve as the nerve center for the California Telehealth Network — the largest endeavor of its kind in the [...]
Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger joined U.S. Chief Technology Officer Aneesh Chopra at the UC Davis Cancer Center on Tuesday to announce the launch of the country's largest "telehealth" system, which organizers say will one day connect patients to hundreds of hospitals and clinics statewide using broadband [...]
Today, Congresswomen Doris Matsui (D-Sacramento), a member of the House Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on Communications, Technology and the Internet, commended the National Telecommunications and Information Administration’s (NTIA) announcement that California will receive Recovery Act funding totaling $205,147,578 for seven Broadband Technology Opportunities Program (BTOP) [...]