A community hospital is essential to the quality of rural living,and the NCTC broadband network is forming the fiber-optic pulse of closer reach.It is impossible to calculate the effects of the proximity of help when you need it. “Because I am from here, I can tell you that a local hospital is more than an option. It is a lifesaver,” says Gary Bean, IT Director at Macon County General Hospital. Gary likes technology. It all comes natural to him! He can put computers back together and knows how to make technology work at the level of need. He was one of NCTC’s very first DSL/Internet customers years ago. He references this generation that has never known what it is to not be connected with a computer, and he knows how even the smallest steps to technology through broadband can change reality for someone in the emergency room! It often does.
“Technology is big today. Because of our broadband connections, we can send patient information to Vanderbilt Hospital or Tri-Star hospitals, our current partners in telemedicine. Doctors can now take a computer pad in hand, hold it next to the patient and through our connection of broadband the physicians at other hospitals can see what the patient is experiencing. Images can be enlarged and studied all at one time. Imaging technology is one way we expand the emergency room’s capabilities when needed. Every minute counts in an emergency room,”Gary believes.
“With broadband, people can live the quiet, rural life and still get the medical attention of a metro facility while keeping their personal physician at hand! Our horizons are expanded by broadband,” Gary comments.
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