FCC Plans Houston Meeting To Address Broadband-Enabled Mental Healthcare

The FCC's Connect2Health Task Force plans a May 18 meeting in Houston on how broadband technologies can improve mental healthcare and related policy issues. "Policymakers, industry leaders, health technology innovators, consumer advocates, clinicians, rural health organizations, and others interested in leveraging technology to help address and improve mental health" are invited, a Friday public notice said. Among those slated to attend are FCC Commissioner Mignon Clyburn, University of Houston Law Center Dean Leonard Baynes, former astronaut and CEO of Vesalius Ventures Dr. Bernard Harris, and Francisco Fernandez, dean of the University of Texas Rio Grande Valley School of Medicine, whose school's efforts will be highlighted. The event is part of the task force's "Beyond the Beltway" outreach initiative. Further details will be posted at the task force's webpage.