Patient Management Systems to Benefit from a Rising Wireless Healthcare Spend of $2.7bn by 2010

Juniper: Spending on mobile hardware, software and services across the global healthcare sector is set to rise to $2.7bn by 2010

. One of the greatest changes will be a correlating rise in investment in patient management systems (PMS).

The potential for wireless technology applications throughout healthcare services, with the rise in use of electronic health records as a major driving force for the adoption of wireless PMS - predicted to rise globally from $289m in 2005 to $1.51bn by 2010.

These large scale deployments across countries and healthcare systems will result in very high usage rates by 2010 which,, will reach ‘85% of North American primary healthcare professionals, and 95% in some European systems – for specific clinical roles.’ Furthermore the rise in wireless investment in healthcare services is by no means restricted to patient management.

Juniper forecasts an increase in use of wireless technology and applications across the board. Prescribing will see a significant increase from $11m to $445m – one that could result in the elimination of 2 million adverse drug events each year. And through linking into other applications, Lab works can expeced to increase from $3.4m to $232m between 2005 and 2010. Patient Management Systems

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