European docs trail U.S. docs for smartphone ownership
Research comparing the use of mobile devices by healthcare professionals in Europe and the U.S. finds that European doctors continue to lag behind their American counterparts when it comes to smartphone ownership.
Providers, don't throw away your pager just yet
Once seen as must-have gadgets in the 1980s, pagers have since been replaced by cell phones and other mobile devices with the exception of one important market segment: the healthcare industry. Healthcare professionals stubbornly cling to their pagers, resisting the overwhelming trend in the rest of society to send them to the dustbin of technology history.
Despite the widespread use of smartphones by physicians, pagers still hold a valued place in healthcare. According to one estimate, more than 90 percent of hospitals use pagers. At the mHealth Summit earlier this month, I spoke with Sean Moshir, CEO of CellTrust, a company that offers a pager replacement solution, who estimated that there are 3.5 million legacy pagers being used in the healthcare environment. Read more...
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