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Illinois Rural HealthNet Regional Broadband Summit South East Central Illinois

Illinois Rural HealthNet Regional Broadband Summit South East Central Illinois. December 1, 2011. IRHN. High-speed, fiber-optic network. Links rural hospitals and clinics with specialists at larger facilities.

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Illinois Rural HealthNet Regional Broadband Summit South East Central Illinois

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  1. Illinois Rural HealthNet Regional Broadband Summit South East Central Illinois December 1, 2011

  2. IRHN • High-speed, fiber-optic network. • Links rural hospitals and clinics with specialists at larger facilities. • Allows healthcare providers to exchange vital information over a dedicated healthcare network, as well as via the public Internet. • Awarded $21 million by the FCC to implement over 1,000 miles of fiber backbone, fiber laterals, and point-to-point wireless. • Connects at speeds from 100 Mbps to 1 Gigabit. • Transmits 64-slice CT scans and digital mammography from and to your rural location in seconds. • 40 hospitals are being connected in 2011/2012, more to follow; • Funding is still available to schedule additional locations.

  3. Six Reasons to Use the IRHN • 100Mbps bandwidth, upstream and downstream, meets the recommended standard of the National Broadband Plan for health care networks. • Traffic between locations on the IRHN is not exposed to the public Internet. It is a dedicated health care network. • Traffic between locations on the IRHN is low cost for high speed: $750/month for 100Mbps (equivalent to 67 T1 circuits). $1200/month for 1 Gigabit/second. • Traffic that needs to move over the public Internet is segmented for security at $4/Megabit via the ISP. • IRHN assists health care providers in being HIPAA compliant with guaranteed quality of service, point to point connectivity, and network reliability. Perfect for Health Information Exchange and HIT applications. • Access to health institutions, education, and research facilities via Internet2.

  4. Radiology Transmission on IRHN • Elapsed Time for Transmission: Shown below are the time frames to transmit each type of file over a T1 circuit (commonly used by rural hospitals), as compared to using the IRHN: • Mammography study on T1 (1.5Mbps) 14 minutes, 29 seconds • Mammography study on IRHN (100Mbps) 16 seconds • Mammography study on IRHN (1 Gig) 1 second • 64-slice CT scan on T1 (1.5Mbps) 4 hours, 38 minutes, 10 seconds • 64-slice CT scan on IRHN (100Mbps) 4 minutes, 50 seconds • 64-slice CT scan on IRHN (1 Gig) 29 seconds

  5. Is Your Location Eligible? • Not-for-profit hospitals • Rural hospitals and clinics • Mental health clinics • Community health centers • Post-secondary educational institutions offering training in health care and medicine • Federal and state funding pays for all of the backbone cost, and pays for 85% of the last mile connection. •  For-profit hospitals are also eligible, as are medical practitioners and health services companies, but are required to pay the full cost of connecting to the network.

  6. If You’re Interested, Contact: • Alan Kraus, at akraus@niu.edu, 815-753-8945 Doug Power, at dpower@niu.edu 815-753 8947 • We’ll talk with you; • Provide an estimate of how the connection would work at your location; • Then you can decide.

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