About C2HFCC
Connect2HealthFCC (C2HFCC) is a senior-level, multi-disciplinary FCC Task Force designed to move the needle on broadband and advanced health care technologies. Michele Ellison (opens new window), General Counsel, serves as Task Force Chair.
Recognizing that technology innovations in clinical practice and care delivery are poised to fundamentally change the face of health care, C2HFCC is charged with exploring the intersection of broadband, advanced technology, and health. The Task Force focuses on further charting the broadband future of health and care. This will ensure that the FCC stays ahead of the health technology curve. Task Force objectives include:
- Promoting effective policy and regulatory solutions that encourage broadband adoption and promote health IT.
- Identifying regulatory barriers (and incentives) to the deployment of advanced health care technologies and devices.
- Engaging a diverse array of traditional and non-traditional stakeholders to identify emerging issues and opportunities in the broadband health space.
- Strengthening the nation's telehealth infrastructure through its Rural Health Care Program (opens new window) and other initiatives.
- Encouraging the development of broadband-enabled health technologies that are designed to be fully accessible to people with disabilities.
- Raising consumer awareness about the value proposition of broadband in the health care sector and its potential for addressing health care disparities.
- Highlighting effective telehealth projects, broadband-enabled health technologies, and mobile health (mHealth) applications across the country and abroad – to identify lessons learned, best practices and regulatory challenges.
Task Force Initiatives include:
- Mapping Broadband Health in America platform
- Broadband Connectivity and Maternity Health Notice of Inquiry, GN Docket 23-309
- Telehealth and the implications of the COVID-19 pandemic
- Broadband connectivity as a social determinant of health
- Broadband and cancer in rural America
- Interagency Collaborations (including with the NCI, ONC, CDC, HRSA)
- Critical Need Counties Lists
- Broadband Health Public Notice, GN Docket 16-46
- Intersecting broadband and maternal health data (Data Mapping to Save Moms' Lives Act)
- Intersecting broadband and opioid data (2018 Omnibus Spending Bill)
- Exploring health as a use case for broadband adoption and deployment in rural areas
The Task Force seeks broad, public and private stakeholder input and collaboration to meet its goals. Ultimately and consistent with our statutory mandate in section 706 of the Telecommunications Act, we must ensure that advanced communications technologies are widely available to all Americans. Learn more about the C2HFCC Mission and Vision (opens new window).
Learn more at www.fcc.gov/health (opens new window).
Contact us at engageC2H@fcc.gov.