MedStar Health Awarded Nearly $1M By FCC For Telehealth Expansion During COVID-19 Pandemic
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BALTIMORE (WJZ) -- MedStar Health was awarded this week nearly $1 million by the Federal Communications Commission to bolster the system's expansion of its Telehealth in response to the COVID-19 pandemic.
MedStar says so far during this pandemic, they've conducted more than 275,000 Telehealth sessions.
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The federal funding boost will help the system invest in its technology to reach an estimated 1.6 million system patients.
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