Wireless Carriers to Cash in with Stimulus Money Linking Health Networks

When you stop and think about it, mobility is the calling, along with interconnectivity. We have only begun to touch the Wi-Fi world in healthcare. What is also helping is the ability of devices now to connect with Bluetooth, so the information can be beamed up. For our social needs we now have Facebook on mobile phones.

Now, Connect to Your EMR Through Your iPhone

For anyone using Windows Tags, you can find mine here. General Mills is already using them on food products you buy in the store. AT&T has Big Brother tracking services available too.

Bumrungrad International Hospital is going wireless with Windows Mobile to run Microsoft Amalga throughout.

Lifescan will let you upload readings to the iPhone.

The PHR information is moving to be even more portable. AllOne Mobile will also be connecting soon to the Microsoft HealthVault to allow for additional storage and sharing of healthcare information with family members, hospitals and doctors, so soon a couple punches on the keypad of your cell phone and off the information will go.

Those are just a few past posts that clearly show we are definitely moving in the wireless direction – fast. Are you still just using your cell phone for phone calls? BD

The $6.8 billion in wireless communications upgrades and new deployments from the U.S. stimulus bill contains "potential goldmines," according to a report released Tuesday by ABI Research. A mix of Wi-Fi-enabled mobile devices, sensors, and communications systems will link health networks, while in education, providers will promote a brace of opportunities, a new report says.

The market research firm predicts wireless equipment vendors will reap significant benefits from the stimulus bill, officially called the American Recovery and Reinvestment ACT (ARRA), and the benefits will flow out beyond infrastructure providers to aid specific vertical industries.

In health care, ABI predicts a mix of Wi-Fi-enabled mobile devices, sensors, and communications systems will link health networks, while in education, providers will promote a brace of opportunities, including wireless LANs for "learning anywhere," voice over Wi-Fi, and other equipment and software to track "No Child Left Behind" record keeping.

"Many of the pending opportunities lie 'under the surface,' " said Schatt. "A civil engineering project which seems mainly about concrete and steel may actually benefit from a lot of wireless technology. And because vendors can't apply for funds themselves, they are -- and should be -- doing everything in their power to help their customers do so."