Can Mobile Devices Transform The Healthcare Experience?

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The healthcare sector has never been known for being an early adopter of information technology. However, wireless devices - along with wireless broadband data networks and mobile software applications - have to be recognized as fundamental components in the quest to expand and improve patient care, control costs, and comply with government and industry mandates.

For some hospitals. the computer on wheels (COW) is as mobile as it gets - simply because no one is motivated to search for better alternatives. Often, a lack of funding or technology personnel serves as a key barrier to transitioning to wireless. Sometimes IT staffs are paralyzed at the thought of supporting more than one type of mobile device and therefore refuse to support anything. Data security and patient privacy are also concerns. However, whatever the objections to mobility have been in the past, they are falling away as everything wireless becomes more powerful, more affordable and more user-friendly.

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