Facing The Fear Of Healthcare Mobility

Compiled by Vicki Amendola, editor, Health IT Outcomes

Healthcare providers are navigating an increasingly mobile landscape. Offering providers more than just mere convenience, mobile computing devices such as tablets, handheld computers, Smartphones, and barcode scanners have the potential to reduce medical errors and ultimately improve the patient point-of-care experience. In this Q & A, we discuss some of the other factors driving mobile computing in healthcare and address some of the fears and challenges that providers continue to face when it comes to adopting a mobile computing strategy.

• What are the biggest drivers for mobile computing strategies in healthcare?
• What are some specific advantages that can alleviate a provider's fear of mobile computing?
• What challenges do providers face when it comes to putting mobile computing hardware into practice?
• What do providers cite as the most important form factors in a mobile computing device?

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