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Wi-Fi Healthcare Revenues to Reach Nearly $5 Billion |
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ABI Research has forecast that revenue from sales of Wi-Fi-enabled healthcare products worldwide (not even including Wi-Fi-equipped medical equipment) will total $4.9 billion in 2014. This represents an increase of nearly 70% over today's figure. The new study is titled "The Current State of Global Healthcare Wi-Fi." With $20 billion allocated in the U.S. Stimulus Bill for the digitizing of medical records, and committees of the U.S. Congress starting to address proposals for comprehensive reform of a medical industry that accounts for about one sixth of the US economy, attention is focused as never before on the opportunities for wireless communications in healthcare. "It's a pretty big business," says ABI Research vice president Stan Schatt. "The strong uptake of Wi-Fi in the health industry is underpinned by its need for improved asset management, staff mobility, transfer of digitized records, and standardized administration of medications. In addition, government security requirements including HIPAA often mean replacing older wireless equipment with modern versions."
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