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Article: Opportunities, challenges in health care: cost, privacy issues keep medical professionals from adopting wireless. (Paging Messaging).
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- Wireless Week
- Article date:
- February 18, 2002
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Editor's note: Wireless messaging is used in a host of vertical markets from trucking to health care, entertainment to travel. Wireless Week is looking at a number of those markets in a series of monthly articles. This is the next in the series.
There's no doubt about it, the health care industry, which represents about 14 percent of the gross national product, is a leading market for technology products and a very desirable one for wireless data.
That's the good news. The bad news is that it's not an easy industry to work with--for both bureaucratic and technological reasons. Still, organizations on both sides of the business equation--vendors and ...