Healthcare technology is tapping into consumer electronics as it waits for the professional market to mature. HEALTHCARE IS the new frontier for electronics systems, but it is taking longer to colonise than many players expected. Two sets of difficulties have emerged. First, who will pay? Providers - be they monolithic public health services or private insurers - are wary of IT-related investments when they face a combination of budget cuts and the prospect of high capital spending on infrastructure. The fact that some recent IT projects have gone badly has not helped. The National Health Service Programme for IT was judged to have provided "little clinical functionality to date" as recently as 2009.
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