Rural health consortium picks telecom provider
The Bangor-based New England Telehealth Consortium has picked Hughes Network Systems of Maryland to provide high-speed satellite services for its mobile health clinic consultation program.
The Bangor Daily News reported that the federally funded consortium will pay Hughes $500,000 over the term of the four-year contract to provide the data network for video conferencing, transfer of electronic health records, voice calls and telemedicine at mobile rural health clinics.
In December, the consortium awarded FairPoint Communications a $16 million contract for telecommunications services out of a $24.6 million federal grant the consortium received in early 2012 to connect rural areas to urban hospitals using a variety of telecommunications techniques.
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