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The Future of Wireless Healthcare: Delivering Critical Reference and Patient Information at the Point of Care

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Overview Today, healthcare organizations are faced with industry-wide pressures to improve clinical quality, raise productivity and increase profitability. Meanwhile, patient satisfaction can be described as inconsistent at best. Owing to busy doctors under pressure to see more patients and antiquated paper based systems, medical errors have become all too common and quality of care has suffered. To meet today's quality of care demands and to foster better and faster decision-making, organizations need to allow access to patient information in a format that fits the mobile nature of healthcare professionals' jobs.

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Publisher	ArcStream Solutions	File Format	PDF, requires Acrobat Rdr 5
Date Published	April 2003	Downloads	6
Format	White Papers
Topics	Mobile - Wireless Communications, Wireless LAN

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