A new report recommends that the Federal Communications Commission make use of mobile technologies a routine medical best practice by 2017. The FCC in June held a summit with industry stakeholders to examine opportunities and challenges of mobile health products, and created the mHealth Task Force to develop recommendations. The FCC is accepting a number of its recommendations, including: consider an order to streamline the agency's experimental licensing rules to encourage creation of wireless health device "test beds," and consider an order to permit provider networks to jointly apply for FCC funds to increase broadband capacity and implement EHRs.
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