Smartphones, scanners and how the converged device market is changing health IT

摘要

Nurses and medical caregivers historically have been saddled with an array of proprietary communication and IT devices to learn, in addition to manning their medical duties, including pagers, VOIP phones, barcode scanners, voice pendants and other hardware. But the trend today is rapidly moving away from proprietary technology and migrating to a smartphone-based new converged-device approach that can lighten the load for the nursing staff, both literally and figuratively.