California Launches Statewide Telehealth Network

Partners in the healthcare delivery system include the FCC, AT&T, the University of California, and more than 800 medical facilities.

Aug 18th, 2010

InformationWeek


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Support for telehealth as a viable healthcare delivery model received an enormous boost on Tuesday when Calif. Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger and U.S. chief technology officer Aneesh Chopra joined a diverse group of statewide healthcare and technology agencies to launch the California Telehealth Network (CTN), the largest broadband network dedicated to telehealth in the nation.

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