Mobile ubiquity - where everything and everyone can and more importantly should be connected is currently transforming how many industries, including Healthcare, conduct business. While the “always on” possibility poses organisations many challenges, it also presents many exciting opportunities.  As healthcare organisations and providers become increasingly digital in both their business processes and day to day medical recording, the move has opened the door for unprecedented improvements around efficient communication.

Some examples of the collaboration and operational benefits include:

• X-Ray and Test Results distributed to the relevant medical staff the instant they become available.
• Interactive patient records (one-click call, history and research capabilities).
• Proximity based treatment using Location Based Services, presence and appropriate skillsets allocation.
• Automatic and speedy patient discharging by remote authorisation from the correct and relevant medical staff.
• “Software to Person” or “Software to Device” communications can be sent in the form of voice, IM, email, SMS/Page, data files or multimedia files.

Are you working with or around Wireless technology in healthcare? Has it improved experience?  We want to hear your experiences - good or bad!

Upcoming Keynote Sessions around Wireless in healthcare at Wireless and Mobile:

Keynote: Telecare and Telehealth ‘On the Move’ and at Home
Speaker: Dr Malcolm Fisk, (Chair) - Telecare Services Association
Time: 13:50 PM - 14:10 PM
Date: Wednesday 20th May 2009

•    The Challenge of Health and Social Care
•    The Growing Role of Fixed and Portable Support Technologies
•    New Areas for Support Technology Applications
•    User Needs and Choices: Issues for Adoption and Usage

Dr Malcolm Fisk has longstanding expertise in relation to telecare and broader issues relating to assistive technologies. He is well placed in relation to these by virtue of his having been, for three years, Chair of the Telecare Services Association (representing over 300 service provider and supply sector organisations in telecare and telehealth in the United Kingdom and beyond).

Keynote: The Impact of Wireless Technology on Healthcare Delivery Models
Speaker: Peter Kruger, (Senior Analyst) - Wireless Healthcare
Time: 14:10 PM - 14:30 PM
Date: Wednesday 20th May 2009

•    The demand for devices by mobile healthcare workers
•    Revolutionising the healthcare provider processes
•    The next generation of wireless based ehealth
•    The full implications of an influx of innovative ehealth providers

In 1994 Peter formed Steinkrug Publications Ltd a UK based analysis group that publishes research on emerging technologies within the IT and energy sectors. He plays a key role within healthcare IT team and contributes some of the research contained within the latest series of ‘Wireless Healthcare’ healthcare reports.
Wireless Healthcare reports provide an insight into the potential of wireless and mobile-based devices within the healthcare sector – chiefly their ability to lower the cost of delivering healthcare and act as a platform for new and innovative services. The reports also highlight the strategic advantages wireless technology provides for vendors entering a market currently dominated by large incumbent vendors supplying legacy IT solutions.

Wireless and Mobile deployment and use is affecting us all, ensure you are able to reap its benefits by visiting Wireless and Mobile 09, 20-21 May Olympia, London.

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Tags | Device Management, Enterprise Mobility, Healthcare, Mobile Internet