Wireless Networks: Just What the Doctor Ordered
"We’re right there on the edge. We can see it, but it’s not quite there," says Stettheimer about personal hospital information technology.
Meanwhile, doctors are used to changing their diagnostic technology annually, St. Vincent’s Brown says. At the same time, a more technically savvy crop of doctors is entering the field, adds Brown, who prides himself on finding technology for doctors faster than his IT department. (OSU, for example, will give entering medical students the new Palm Tungstens this year, mostly to try out the new audio capability for dictation.)
It will take an openness to experimentation by both users and IT managers to ensure that wireless and mobile technologies deliver on their promise in today’s increasingly IT-based medical practice.
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