After years of talk about wireless technologies' potential for widespread use in medical applications, they appear to be ready for a takeoff in adoption within health care organizations.
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Wireless IT in Health Care: the Time is Now?
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benb Tue, 2009-05-05 08:05
The health care IT benefits most from technology when there are requirements with no regard for the technology. Those who work in the health care industry must define their perfect world and then find the best method to get there. As stated in the article, force-fitting RFID did not work and the same is true for wireless. One must ask, does this technology meet our needs or is it just cool. These answers exist in the minds of the hospital workers – let us go ask them what they need, create requirements, and find what addresses the needs.
Christopher Glenn Tue, 2009-05-12 12:04
It is understandable that IT in general, not just wireless, will take a while longer to take hold in healthcare. Adoption has to be driven by both the patient and the provider. As patients become more paperless in their own lives, they will insist on more and more paperless activity in the healthcare system. You’ll start to see more questions about “eCare” in Fortune 500 benefit RFPs and patients will increasingly show a preference with their feet by choosing clinics and facilities that support more electronic process management. I myself chose a clinic here in Peoria whereby I can book appointments online, exchange confidential medical information with my doctors via a secure web form and view my confidential test results – and because this is web-based, I can do all these things from my wireless phone. So it will get here, but slowly. Healthcare has to work when batteries die, when hard drives crash and when networks go down. As such, there will always be a certain amount of paper trail to complement the electronic versions of medical records, orders and forms.
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