FCC Commissioner Mignon Clyburn plans to work with...

FCC Commissioner Mignon Clyburn plans to work with the healthcare sector “to research, review and recommend how our current and evolving communications infrastructure can more efficiently and effectively solve basic health challenges and disparities,” she told the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society pre-conference symposium in Orlando on Sunday, according to prepared remarks (http://fcc.us/MpmUh7). Clyburn’s office will take the lead on coordinating the effort, she said, which will seek “to leverage the human and technical resources we have at the FCC to address health care disconnects in our society.” The initiative, details of which will be released in the coming days, will complement the FCC’s existing work assisting rural healthcare organizations in utilizing “the ever growing promise of health IT,” she said.