WESTERN HOSPITAL COALITION SEEKS BROADBAND STIMULUS MONEY

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The National Medical Wireless Broadband Alliance announced that it's seeking a grant through the Broadband Technology Opportunities Program for its Critical Links Project, an open- access, middle-mile infrastructure to bring broadband connections to 70 member hospitals in California, Arizona, Nevada and Hawaii. "The Alliance's members came together to solve an unmet need for technology neutral, open innovation platforms that enable any wireless device within each hospital to access existing wireless networks," the group said. "The Critical Links Project is designed to fill this middle mile gap for hospitals, allowing wireless access at the point of care and bringing much-needed 21st century bandwidth, speed and interconnectivity to health IT systems." Alliance President Steve Solomon said the project will have a "multiplier effect, empowering patients through enhanced information, promoting telemedicine and creating a technology baseline to provide information needed by physicians for informed decisions in real-time."