FCC Awards $26.6M in Connected Care Pilot

The FCC awarded $26.6 million of the $100 million Connected Care pilot to 14 projects Friday, serving 150 treatment sites in 11 states. The most, about $5.8 million, goes to Ochin, a consortium of 44 providers in Ohio, Oregon and Washington state. Temple University Hospital got $4 million for telehealth in the Philadelphia area. The University of Mississippi Medical Center will receive about $2.4 million to provide broadband access to patients to enable remote monitoring and telehealth. FCC Chairman Ajit Pai said in a statement the funding "lays the groundwork for this connected care future as these projects will help us better understand how telehealth can reduce costs and increase the quality of care."