Report: Meaningful use drives overall market for handheld devices
The handheld device market’s more than 10 percent growth since 2007 to $11 billion in 2011 has been fueled by many factors, including meaningful use requirements providers must meet to benefit from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services’ EHR incentive programs, according to Kalorama Information.
Requirements that providers enter patient visits and transactions electronically has shifted some of the healthcare industry’s demand for handheld devices from ones that offer patient monitoring functions to ones that offer more administrative functions.
“Administrative device usage has exploded over the last five years with the growing use of personal digital assistants, smartphones and tablet PCs taking hold in the healthcare industry,” read a Feb. 13 statement from the Rockville, Md.-based market researcher. “Tablet PCs are being used for a variety of uses in the health field, including access to patient records at the point of care, improved viewing capabilities for medical images and easy offsite patient monitoring.”
Requirements that providers enter patient visits and transactions electronically has shifted some of the healthcare industry’s demand for handheld devices from ones that offer patient monitoring functions to ones that offer more administrative functions.
“Administrative device usage has exploded over the last five years with the growing use of personal digital assistants, smartphones and tablet PCs taking hold in the healthcare industry,” read a Feb. 13 statement from the Rockville, Md.-based market researcher. “Tablet PCs are being used for a variety of uses in the health field, including access to patient records at the point of care, improved viewing capabilities for medical images and easy offsite patient monitoring.”