How can broadband help with the opioid crisis?
Yesterday at the Border to Border MN Broadband conference, Broadband Task Force member Maureen Ideker said her goal was to find a way for broadband to help with the opioid crisis. Maureen is a nurse and has been involved with telehealth for a long time; I remember when she spoke to the original Task Force as an expert in 2009. Thinking that broadband could prevent opioid addiction seemed like a big, but fantastic, ask.
Then I remembered just the day before Chuck Olsen (Visual) talked about how virtual reality (VR) was more effective with pain management than morphine. In a test 10 years ago, they used VR to distract a veteran while he was being treated for burns. VR reduced his pain by 50 percent; morphine will only reduce pain by 30 percent.
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