A Broadband Breakfast Live session will examine how broadband powers telehealth, remote monitoring, and data sharing—and what gaps in networks, funding, and rules leave rural and underserved patients behind.
Broadband is increasingly essential to healthcare delivery: telehealth visits, remote patient monitoring, and real-time data exchange all depend on reliable networks.
Drew Clark, CEO and Publisher of Broadband Breakfast, will moderate a panel of medicine, technology, and policy experts invited to discuss practical steps for making connected care work for every patient.
# Broadband Breakfast Live on Oct. 7, 2026: Connectivity and Medicine
Broadband is becoming a practical utility for healthcare. The Broadband Breakfast Live online session on October 7, 2026 focuses on how reliable broadband underpins telehealth visits, remote patient monitoring, and immediate data sharing among providers. The program promises a discussion among medicine, technology, and policy practitioners about what networks, funding, and regulatory steps are needed to extend connected care to rural and underserved communities.
Panelists will examine current use cases where connectivity directly affects outcomes—virtual visits between clinicians and patients, at-home devices that monitor chronic conditions, and secure real-time exchange of clinical information. The conversation will also address where the system falls short: gaps in last-mile access, capacity limitations that affect video and device traffic, and the uneven availability of services in non-urban areas.
Speakers will explore the practical components that affect deployment of connected care: the types of network upgrades providers and health systems require, funding mechanisms to support buildout and ongoing service, and regulatory factors that govern telehealth reimbursement, privacy, and cross-state care.
Drew Clark, CEO and Publisher of Broadband Breakfast, will moderate the session. Clark has led the Broadband Breakfast community since 2008 and previously founded a crowdsourced broadband data tool used to surface gaps left out of official federal reporting. He has experience with state broadband initiatives and has focused his work on advocating for higher-capacity internet access.
As more healthcare interactions rely on digital connections, broadband availability becomes an operational and equity issue for health systems and patients. The session aims to move beyond high-level claims and address the practical interplay of infrastructure, policy, and clinical practice needed to expand reliable connected care.
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