The vision of healthcare facilities freed of the ubiquitous wires that connect patients to monitors and therapeutic devices has been written about and promoted for almost a decade. But adoption of wireless devices has been painfully slow, hampered by concerns over patient privacy and quality-of-care, the cost of transitioning to wireless networks, and evolving wireless technologies that force healthcare decision makers to bet on a moving target. In spite of the intuitive advantages of wireless in healthcare, the technology continues to be an unfulfilled promise.

As healthcare facilities attempt to move toward wireless devices for mission-critical patient applications, the need for a comprehensive approach continues to surface. The disparate and broad spectrum of medical devices and applications that populate the ER, surgical suite or average patient room makes the choice of a single wireless protocol impractical. In this environment, technology decision makers require assurances that go beyond the robustness and reliability of a particular device or wireless connectivity solution.

Interoperability will continue to be a key buying influence for health care facilities currently attempting to integrate a variety of discrete monitors onto their networks. Several healthcare facilities are taking a comprehensive approach to wireless technology, in the process addressing issues of network integration, facility-wide reliability and user acceptance. The eventual success of these lead facilities will serve as road maps for large metropolitan and regional hospitals, and will fuel the growth of wirelessly enabled monitors, as the favorable impact of these products on health care operations by early adopters becomes known.

The study's findings are contained in Wireless Patient Monitors: Markets & Opportunities, a new report researched and Applied Data Research.

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