“From a historical perspective, the installation of broadband fiber through the cooperative made it possible for Atlantic General to stand up our first electronic medical record in our health system’s physician practices in 2008 and has allowed for subsequent upgrades to connect all of our facilities. High speed internet has become vital to the delivery of patient care in today’s world, and we cannot overstate the importance of the Maryland Broadband Cooperative to our organization’s operations. The cooperative provides the high speeds required for secure exchange of vast amounts of patient data, and – just as important – it does so more reliably than other internet services, with an uptime on our dark fiber network of 100% for the last three years."