1、 https:/crsreports.congress.gov Updated July 8, 2020FCC COVID-19 Telehealth Program and Connected Care Pilot Program: Funding to Assist Health Care Providers and PatientsIntroduction Health care providers are leveraging telehealth, which generally refers to a health care providers use of information
2、 and communication technology to provide a health care service, to meet patients health care needs during the Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic. However, some providers do not have the infrastructure to offer, nor do some patients have the broadband access or connected devices to access,
3、telehealth services. To address these gaps, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) is administering the COVID-19 Telehealth Program and the Connected Care Pilot Program. The goal of both programs is to assist health care providers with providing connected care services, which the FCC refers to
4、as “a subset of telehealth that uses broadband internet access service-enabled technologies to deliver remote medical, diagnostic, patient-centered, and treatment-related services directly to patients outside of traditional brick and mortar medical facilitiesincluding specifically to patients at the
