Healthcare Connectivity Performance Testing
Know What Your Network Really Delivers at Every Clinic
Advanced Technologies and Services, Inc. (ATS) provides fully managed healthcare connectivity performance testing for rural hospitals, clinics and health centers that depend on broadband for telehealth and daily care. ATS test devices sit at each of your locations, run automated speed and latency tests on a managed schedule, and return clear, site-by-site results, so you know what your provider is actually delivering instead of taking their word for it.
What Slow Internet Costs Rural Healthcare Providers
- Telehealth failures: Video visits freeze or drop, limiting access to specialists — especially behavioral health, stroke, cardiology, and other services that may require long patient travel.
- Delayed care decisions: EHRs, imaging, lab results, e-prescribing, referrals, and health-information exchange can load slowly or be unavailable.
- More staff burden and cost: Downtime leads to manual processes, repeat calls, scanning backlog, IT troubleshooting, and reduced appointment capacity.
- Revenue and compliance risks: Slow connectivity can interrupt billing, prior authorizations, quality reporting, secure backups, and timely patient access to records.
Federal rural-health guidance identifies inadequate broadband as a barrier to telehealth and health-IT adoption; the FCC's Rural Health Care Program may help eligible providers obtain discounted broadband and telecom services.
Sources: HRSA rural-health report · FCC Rural Health Care Program overview
Why Independent Measurement Matters
Telehealth visits, electronic health records, imaging, and pharmacy connections all ride on the same broadband link. When that link underperforms, your staff feels it first — frozen video, slow record loads, dropped sessions. Your provider's own monitoring tells you how their network looks from their side. An independent test device at the clinic tells you what your patients and staff actually experience, at each site, on your schedule.
What We Measure
✓ Download and upload speeds at each clinic site
✓ Latency, measured on your schedule
✓ Jitter and packet loss, checked every minute
✓ Performance during peak clinic hours, when it matters most
✓ Site-by-site results, so one strong location doesn't hide a weak one
How We Help
ATS manages the whole process. We send the test devices, run the tests automatically, store the results securely, and deliver reporting your team can use in conversations with your provider — including evidence for service-level discussions. No hardware to build, no testing operation to staff, no reports to compile by hand.
ATS test devices have been used for CAF performance testing for more than five years. ATS has deployed thousands of them across North America since 2020, backed by a national test network with servers near FCC-designated internet exchange points.
1. Place test devices at each site
We send a pre-configured ATS test device to each location. It only needs an internet connection to run.
2. Tests run automatically on schedule
Speed and latency tests run automatically on a schedule we set with you, including peak clinic hours, with results on a real-time dashboard.
3. Site-by-site reporting you can act on
Download clear results for every location to share with your provider, so weak sites and recurring slowdowns are easy to spot.
Who It's For
✓ Federally Qualified Health Centers with multiple clinic sites
✓ Rural health systems and critical access hospitals
✓ Telehealth networks coordinating care across locations
✓ Any rural provider that depends on broadband to deliver care
Healthcare Connectivity Testing FAQs
Why should a clinic test its own internet if the provider already monitors it?
Your provider's monitoring shows how its network looks from its side. An independent ATS test device at the clinic measures the speed and latency your staff and patients actually get, at each site, on your schedule.
How often are speed and latency tests run?
Latency, jitter and packet loss are checked every minute, and full speed tests run several times each clinic day plus once overnight, so you see peak-hour performance without slowing your network.
Do the test devices touch patient data or clinical systems?
No. ATS test devices only need an internet connection to run speed and latency tests. They don't access patient records, EHRs or clinical systems.
Can results help in service-level discussions with our ISP?
Yes. ATS delivers site-by-site speed and latency results you can download and share, giving your team documented evidence when you raise performance or service-level issues with your provider.
Does this work with circuits funded by the FCC Rural Health Care Program?
Yes. The FCC's Rural Health Care Program may help eligible providers get discounted broadband. ATS testing shows whether those circuits deliver the speeds you're paying for. ATS doesn't file or manage Rural Health Care Program applications.
Find Out What Your Clinics Are Really Getting
If you can spare 20 minutes, we can explain how ATS can verify connectivity at every one of your sites with minimal lift.