Health Records on the Web - Faster Broadband means better healthcare

With the recent emergence of healthbank from Microsoft as noted on the blood pressure blog it follows that faster broadband connection speeds are necessary to allow rapid transfer of this medical data such as the history of reading recoded by those that regulary measure their blood pressure at home.

In a helpful post about the development of UK Broadband over at thenextpost about how increased speeds and cheap broadband connections have risen on the political agenda - the recent Australian election campaign had the future of broadband high on its "hot topics" and in the UK the debate has begun in earnest.
BT claim there's plenty of bandwidth available but it doesn't take much calculating that if the population as a whole began to keep and check their online health records - blood pressure readings for example are a daily event for many - added to the introduction of all NHS patient data being shared via the internet then preparation for a replacement to the copper wires we now have to be made.