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Democracy & Technology Blog Broadband’s tremendous benefits for health care

Hance Haney
March 20, 2006
Broadband

An article by Robert Litan highlights some of the efficiencies that broadband could mean for health care, as quantified in a recent study by the same author. The potential applications and anticipated savings are fascinating. Litan cites one study, for example, which found that broadband-based remote monitoring for all chronically ill patients could reduce hospital, outpatient, and drug expenses by 30 percent — reducing overall health care expenses for the United States by roughly one quarter, or about $350 billion annually. (See “Massive Economic Benefits Foreseen:
Ultra-fast telemedicine and telecommuting can save money and improve quality of life,” by Robert E. Litan.)

Hance Haney

Director and Senior Fellow of the Technology & Democracy Project
Hance Haney served as Director and Senior Fellow of the Technology & Democracy Project at the Discovery Institute, in Washington, D.C. Haney spent ten years as an aide to former Senator Bob Packwood (OR), and advised him in his capacity as chairman of the Senate Communications Subcommittee during the deliberations leading to the Telecommunications Act of 1996. He subsequently held various positions with the United States Telecom Association and Qwest Communications. He earned a B.A. in history from Willamette University and a J.D. from Lewis and Clark Law School in Portland, Oregon.