Date: 24/06/2010

Wireless technology adoption in healthcare grow over the past year

Wi-Fi adoption in healthcare has grown by over 60% over the last year in both wireless local area network and Wi-Fi RTLS (Real-Time Locations Systems) deployments according to ABI research and high double-digit growth is expected to continue for at least the medium term.

The healthcare domain has also shown growth in the adoption and deployment of other wireless technologies such as cellular M2M and wearable wireless sensors over the past year.

Wireless communications continue to be adopted in healthcare applications ranging from Wi-Fi networks to wearable sensors that wirelessly transmit a patient's condition to monitoring applications.

"Wi-Fi adoption has helped overcome initial concerns about complexity and reliability of wireless within healthcare," says ABI Research principal analyst Jonathan Collins "The growing number of wireless technologies and wireless applications being developed, piloted and deployed within healthcare further underline the level of interest in using wireless to improve the flexibility and efficiency of healthcare services around the world."

The technologies tracked by ABI Research's Wireless Healthcare Research Service include Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, Low-Energy Bluetooth, ZigBee, 802.15.4 and low power RF offerings across applications such as WLAN, personal monitoring, disease management, assisted living and telepresence.

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