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September 14, 2011

Media Advisory: GCI ConnectMD and the Alaska Native Tribal Health Consortium Deliver ATA to Remote Attendees

GCI ConnectMD and the Alaska Native Tribal Health Consortium (ANTHC) are working with the American Telemedicine Association (ATA) to provide remote access to the ATA Fall Forum 2011.
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May 24, 2011

Press Release: USDA Awards Telemedicine Grant to Lake Chelan Community Hospital

USDA Rural Development presented a Distance Learning and TeleMedicine Grant (DLT) of $487,148 to Lake Chelan Community Hospital (LCCH) on Monday May, 23. The grant will be shared with Mid Valley Hospital in Omak, Okanogan Douglas District Hospital in Brewster and Klickitat Valley Health in Goldendale.
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May 16, 2011

Business Wire: Seven Percent of U.S. Physicians Use Video Chat to Communicate with Patients

Manhattan Research's Taking the Pulse® U.S. v11.0 Study Includes a Focus on the Role of Digital in the Physician-Patient Relationship
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March 29, 2011

Media Advisory: ConnectMD Speaks on Role of Technology in Healthcare at NW Regional Rural Health Conference

Sandy Kukla, senior program manager for GCI Connect MD, will be speaking on The Critical Role of Health Information Technology along with Jac Davies, director of northwest telehealth and regional outreach with Inland Northwest Health Services (INHS) at the 24th NW Regional Rural Health Conference in Spokane, WA.
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March 11, 2011

Press Release: Fiber Coming to Rural Healthcare Providers in Washington

Northwest Open Access Network, a non-profit fiber backhaul company in Washington known primarily as NoaNet, submitted two applications and was subsequently awarded grants totaling more than $154-million in 2010 to expand fiber access throughout the state with connectivity to targeted anchor institutions such as libraries, schools and rural healthcare providers. The fiber build is called Washington Rural Access Project, or WRAP.
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March 1, 2011

Alaska Business Monthly: Connecting Southwest Alaska: GCI's TERRA-SW hybrid network

Compared to the other communities in Bush Alaska, AlexAnna Salmon thought the Village of Igiugig was technologically advanced. Then she saw what the rest of the world had at their fingertips.
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February 23, 2011

First Alaskans magazine: Western Alaska projects at work toward service by 2013

For rural Alaskans, 4G is much more than a number and letter. It represents unprecedented opportunities. It means contracts for Native and village corporations looking to expand the region's infrastructure and connectivity. It means an ability to conduct business with the same efficiencies as those in the state's larger cities.
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January 8, 2011

Anchorage Daily News: GCI set for first phase of broadband build out

With the first phase of construction on General Communication Inc.'s TERRA-Southwest project set to start this month, the telecom company said contractor Marsh Creek LLC was selected to construct 11 microwave towers as part of the broadband Internet build out.
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January 4, 2011

KTUU - Channel 2: Grants bringing faster Internet service to libraries statewide

In the Interior Alaska village of Lake Minchumina, the library offers the only Internet access -- and it's pretty slow. But that service is about to get faster in libraries across the state, thanks in large part to federal stimulus funds.
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January 3, 2011

TMCnet: Healthcare Technology: ConnectMD and Puget Blood Center Launch New Blood-Distribution System

In partnership with the recognized leader in transfusion medicine and the world's largest transfusion service, Puget Sound Blood Center, GCI ConnectMD is launching a new blood-distribution system that will provide increased patient safety, as well as hospital efficiency.
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December 30, 2010

Healthcare IT News: Blood center boosts patient safety with new tech

Puget Sound Blood Center is increasing patient safety and hospital efficiency with a new blood-distribution process and a telehealth technology developed by ConnectMD.
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December 28, 2010

KDLG Radio: Project Bringing Broadband to Bristol Bay is Boosted

Director of Rural Broadband Development Krag Johnsen was interviewed by Mike Mason of KDLG on the TERRA broadband project in southwest Alaska.
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December 22, 2010

The Bristol Bay Times: Marsh Creek wins prime contract for Southwest broadband

United Utilities, Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of GCI Communication Corp., has chosen Marsh Creek, LLC as the prime contractor for 11 new microwave communications sites in a major broadband project to serve Bristol Bay and the Yukon-Kuskokwim Delta. The contract was announced today by Martin Cary, vice president and general manager, GCI Managed Broadband Services.
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December 3, 2010

Puget Sound Business Journal: Area Hospitals get blood vending machines

The Puget Sound Blood Center is installing blood vending machines at a half-dozen King County hospitals. THe new technology intiative is intended to extend the region's blood supply.
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August 18, 2010

Press Release: High-speed broadband coming to all corners of Washington

Northwest Open Access Network (NoaNet) announced today it has received a second federal grant to extend high-speed broadband service to nearly every unserved area of the state.
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July 16, 2010

Press Release: Lake Chelan Community Hospital named 2010 Most Wired Hospital – Small and Rural

Lake Chelan Community Hospital (LCCH) has been recognized as one of the nation's MOST WIRED—SMALL AND RURAL hospitals, according to the results of the 2010 Most Wired Survey released in the July issue of Hospitals & Health Networks magazine, the journal of the American Hospital Association.
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July 9, 2010

New York Times: "High Speed for the Sparsely Wired"

Government stimulus spending is a contentious issue right now in Washington. But the $7.2 billion in the last stimulus package for extending high-speed Internet access is just beginning to be spent, and the beneficiaries could not be happier.
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July 7, 2010

Press Release: Mid-Valley Hospital Named 2010 Most Wired Progress Continues with Adoption of Health Information Technology but Significant Barriers Still Exist

Mid-Valley Hospital has been recognized as one of the nation's MOST WIRED—SMALL AND RURAL, according to the results of the 2010 Most Wired Survey released today in the July issue of Hospitals & Health Networks magazine. This is the third time that Mid-Valley Hospital made the Most Wired list.
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June 1, 2010

Washington & Idaho Regional Extension Center: Apply for WIREC services today, limited slots are available

The Washington & Idaho Regional Extension Center for Health Information Technology (WIREC) is now accepting applications from healthcare providers across the two states who can demonstrate "meaningful use" of electronic health record systems. Providers who meet all requirements could earn incentives up to $44,000 from Medicare or $63,750 from Medicaid. Participation fees vary and limited slots are available.
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March 15, 2010

Alaska Journal of Commerce: "GCI to Install Broadband Network in Southwest Alaska"

The Internet runs at a snail's pace in most Southwest Alaska villages. Locals rely on lumbering, unreliable satellite connections for personal Web trolling, but also for crucial medical and educational services.
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January 25, 2010

KDLG Interview: GCI Vice President and General Manager Martin Cary discusses extending terrestrial broadband service to Bristol Bay and the Yukon-Kuskokwim Delta.

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January 25, 2010

Press Release: GCI subsidiary awarded $88 million in federal broadband stimulus funding

GCI received notice today that the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Rural Utilities Service ("RUS") had approved United Utilities, Inc's application for an $88 million loan/grant combination to extend terrestrial broadband service for the first time to Bristol Bay and...
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