IDC Health Insights finds that European healthcare providers are focusing on mobile solutions that address the most time-consuming processes, in order to reduce waste, delay and duplications.
According to IDC Health Insights new report, How European Healthcare Providers Progress align the 4Cs of Clinical Mobility, investment in clinical mobility is expected to reach $2,4-billion by the end of 2014.
Solutions supporting patient administration, dictation/speech recognition, and workflow automation are in the spotlight in the short term, but they will also experience real benefits when clinical applications are more easily accessible in the mobile environment.
“Healthcare providers that want to leverage mobile to enable a patient-centric and collaborative work environment should plan and implement a comprehensive clinical mobility strategy that addresses key areas such as connectivity, performance, manageability, usability, and security,” says Silvia Piai, EMEA research manager, IDC Health Insights. “The reach and breadth of these capabilities is way beyond consideration about the device.”
The insights are based on the results of a survey of 179 healthcare IT and non-IT executives in Western Europe, this study analyses the readiness of Western European providers for mobile, looking at their current adoption and investment plans in key technologies that will enable a comprehensive clinical mobility strategy.