Mobile physician order entry systems and hospital cost reduction

¶ … Mobile Devices in Hospitals to Help Reduce Healthcare Costs

Healthcare technologies are constantly evolving in what is an industry that requires high volumes of information be retained. The impact that technology has had upon healthcare is enormous and the improvement to communication in healthcare between healthcare professionals and among healthcare departments in the hospital has enabled optimization of many healthcare functions and processes. Management of costs in the healthcare industry are enabled through the implementation of mobile computing and communication technology. The 'Telemedicine Information Exchange' which claims to be "...an unbiased and all-inclusive platform for information telemedicine and telehealth" reports in the work entitled: "Hospitals Unplugged: The Wireless Revolution Reaches Healthcare" the fact that the patient's information may be entered into the hospital information system "even before the patient enters the hospital..." (Wachter, 2001) This tracking and monitoring of patient conditions in real-time as well as patient information already stored is a process that enables the hospital to greatly reduce medical errors and save enormous amounts in costs.