The potential of new technologies in the healthcare communications and devices space is huge. With the migration towards paperless environments, more and more healthcare organisations across the globe are investing in networking solutions and mobile computing devices. For point-of-care, solutions like IP telephony, wireless LANs and mobile computing devices are increasingly becoming more and more useful on a mission to improve the delivery of care. Their use leads to better-informed physicians and more satisfied patients. Providers are also paid more promptly. Technologies like Internet and wireless contribute to knowledge for problem sharing and decision-making and applications like EPR, telemedicine and data warehousing enable sharing of medical and clinical information to the smallest of the healthcare organisations.

The report is divided into two distinguished segments

1. New communication technologies, and

2. Developing segments

The segment on new communication technologies provides impact of technologies like the Internet, wireless and IP communications. It also sheds light on the importance and need for communication devices (tablets/laptops, mobile carts, hand-held devices, IP telephones), solutions and applications (Virtual Private Networks, web services, unified messaging, IP videoconferencing, tele-robotics, IP contact centres and instant messaging).

The developing segments highlights the developing areas of telemedicine, on-line treatment, primary care-IT and services-application service provision. TekPlus believes that these areas are of great importance to the ICT vendors due to their contribution in the healthcare sector. It also provides guidelines on the emerging segments of bio-nanotechnology, e-procurement, CPOE (Computerised Physician Order Entry) and evidence based patient care.

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