Mental health and addiction treatment services provider Cascadia Behavioral Health has deployed Comcast Business Ethernet. The healthcare company serves more than 15,000 clients across five counties in Oregon.

One of the many issues that pushes up healthcare costs is when testing and diagnostics have to be repeated when care networks cannot share information. According to Comcast Business, the rollout allows Cascadia to quickly and securely share electronic medical records (EMRs) and test results to a wide range of locations, as well as enable voice service powered by Comcast Business PRI Trunks. That helps avoid the need for repeated testing and diagnostics.

Comcast’s fiber-optic network provides scalable, dedicated Internet bandwidth for Cascadia’s staff and an Ethernet Private Line delivers high-capacity private data transfers between the 65 locations and Cascadia’s data center. Cascadia serves the Oregon counties of Multnomah, Clackamas, Lane, Washington and Marion. Treatment programs include medical services, mental health, wellness and homelessness services. It also offers community development projects including housing outreach and treatment for addiction and gambling.

Comcast Business also recently announced that it is providing Ethernet services to Advocare, a physician group with care centers in New Jersey and Pennsylvania. The services there reportedly provide the necessary infrastructure to support the organization’s optimization of EMRs, improve access to cloud-based applications and deliver better patient care. More on that is available here.