Clinical Innovation April 30, 2018
Mobile device usage for nurses and clinicians is expected to top 90 percent in 2022, according to The Future of Healthcare: 2022 Hospital Vision Study conducted by Zebra Technologies.
As the healthcare industry becomes more digitized, utilization of mobile technologies has increased. The study, which included the responses from 1,532 international clinicians, looked at the current and future state of mobile device usage in healthcare.
Key findings included:
- By 2020, usage of mobile devices is expected to grow by 40 percent for all hospital workers.
- 98 percent of alarms or alerts from patient monitoring equipment, electronic health records (EHRs) and biomedical devices will be accessed through a mobile device by 2022.
- In four years, 91 percent of nurses could...