What advanced telecommunication services do healthcare providers consider mandatory in order to achieve efficiency and quality care?
Health insurers and Health Maintenance Organizations require health care providers to conduct all billing and accounting transactions digitally. Increasingly, provider data and patient records are being stored digitally. To work with this digital information, powerful computers and servers need to be used, but it doesn’t end there. Broadband Internet access is now a critical component of this equation. Transferring large amounts of digital information across town or across the country is nearly impossible without high-speed connections. For example, when access to fiber optic networks isn’t realistic because of economic or construction barriers, high speed wireless connections will become absolute necessities if efficient and quality care will be provided quickly.
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