Netbooks: the Saviour of Healthcare IT?

By Thomas Sutton - July 9, 2009

It's a banality to state that Healthcare IT is hopelessly out-of-date.  Actually, hospitals are often full of gleaming new equipment and are constantly upgrading their infrastructure. The problem  is that while the assorted blocks of hardware and software in a healthcare system are often very sophisticated in themselves, they typically don't connect to each other, or to their users, in a very effective manner. Printers, faxes, and paper filing cabinets form the real backbone of the system.

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