[nradov]

Well there's a blast from the past. Many years ago I worked with the startup company that eventually evolved into Outcome Health. Back then many doctors' offices still lacked broadband Internet access, especially in rural areas. The business model was to provide free satellite Internet service to doctors by installing a rooftop dish antenna connected to a kiosk in the waiting room. Revenue came from selling video ads displayed on the kiosk screen (mostly prescription drugs) along with looped healthcare videos from CNN.

That aspect of the business eventually failed. Some doctors really liked it (the CNN educational content was legitimately pretty good and kept waiting patients from getting bored), but overall it was too expensive to deploy the hardware and geosynchronous satellite Internet service is always slow. As availability of other forms of broadband Internet access improved the satellite service opportunity evaporated. Back at that time I wasn't aware of any fraud, just a failed business model.