Mobile Platforms Forecast
February 22, 2011 | Terry Sharrer
It’s not a matter of knowing the need, but rather how to act on the need that is the mega-issue in hospital-based IT. “Big applications, big data centers and big hardware” seem to be today’s choices; tomorrow’s likely will be smart-phone apps, cloud computing, and mobile devices-aiming at greater flexibility in information collection and management. While healthcare reform is promoting EMR adoption, nearly three quarters of US physicians are already using smartphones, which can integrate data to an EMR. MORE