Growing Cost of Telemedicine, Telepathology, and Medical Data Transmissions Is a Budget-Buster in Oklahoma

Dec 23, 2011 | Digital Pathology, Laboratory News, Laboratory Operations, Laboratory Pathology, Management & Operations

Oklahoma’s public services commission seeks limits on free bandwidth to rural non-profit hospitals Rapid expansion in the use of telemedicine, telepathology, and similar digital data applications is creating an unexpected problem. The cost of the bandwidth required to support these services is growing at an equally fast pace! In Oklahoma, the increased cost of supporting telemedicine services is busting the budget of the state’s decade-old Universal Service Fund (OKUSF). That is causing...
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