Companies that devise creative ways, such as e-books, standardized medical records and smart grid technology, to marry broadband to those issues will also benefit from the FCC plan, says Arbogast.

FORBES: Internet

Through mid-May, just 1, 026 registered hospitals and physicians out of a possible 56, 599 have demonstrated that they are using electronic medical records and other health information technology in accordance with federal standards.

FORBES: Government Mandates Make Health Savings More Elusive

More doctors are selling out their practices to larger groups or hospitals and going to work for someone else rather than spend money to upgrade their practices with the latest technology for electronic medical records.

FORBES: Docs Working Less As Flood Of New Patients Looms

Sure, the technology to digitize and store medical records has been around for like, forevah, but without standards, any effort would be fruitless.

ENGADGET: Digital medical records by 2015?

There would be subsidies for those who have financial difficulty getting private coverage--we could pay for it by redirecting regular tax expenditures, gaining administrative savings through one-stop enrollment for clients, electronic transfers of medical records and improvements in the health care information technology spectrum, and ending unneeded hospital emergency room visits.

FORBES: Sen. Ron Wyden, D-Ore.

The Wall Street Journal reported that IBM is deploying technology to help thousands of scattered hospitals in China standardize medical records.

FORBES: Have Health Insurance, Will Save Less

Information technology -- the Recovery Act provides (microphone out) dollars just putting our medical records online so (microphone out).

WHITEHOUSE: Town Hall in Los Angeles

The facility is equipped with the latest technology: my check-in is processed via an automated kiosk, and my surgeon flips through medical records via a browser.

FORBES: Data to Kill Death