In this ViodiTV at MTA interview. Steve Klein of Allied Telesis, discusses emerging broadband applications around telemedicine and remote healthcare and the value they can provide to rural households and communities. He points out how the telco's broadband network can power smart grid opportunities. ViodiTV at the MTA 2010 annual convention was sponsored by the MTA Associate Members and HEM productions.
Some good ideas here, but the question, as always, is who's going to pay. A lot of medical treatment results from a doctor's knowledge of his patient. A slight panting, nervousness, or skin hue can indicate problems with internal organs or blood sugar levels. Then there's the problem that elderly wheelchair bound people and computers are often not compatible. It's also dangerous to try to build a business model on something that the government is striving to become more and more entrenched in. With a change in political climate and government intervention, like the one that is apparently forthcoming, entire marketing plans and investments may go out the window. With taxpayers fading fast, making plans based on a government takeover of the health care and telecom industries is about as secure as a triple-scoop in August.
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With the Postal Service, Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid, Fannie and Freddie, TARP, the economy, immigration, our relationships with other countries, our educational system, the FDA and EPA, our financial system, and the tax code its self all broken, does anyone really expect this to be any other way?
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This, by the way, is why you really, really, don't want the government running health care.. http://bit.ly/dmW9A1
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