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medical apps across iOS, Android and other devices.
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More than 80% of physicians own a mobile device,
compared to 50% of the general U.S. population.
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The Global wireless healthmarket is projected to be
worth over $38 Billion by 2016.
AN AMBITIOUS OUTLOOK TOWARDS MOBILE
TECHNOLOGY
Along with 3G and 4G, advances inmobile devices
have transformed communications, commerce, and
entertainment among other fields. Now this technology
is poised to alter health care industry, the quality of the
patient experience, and the cost of health care.
Furthermore, these technological advances are being
adopted at a time when a growing number
of physicians are making EHRs and other
technologies like cloud computing as a central
part of their practices.
Even the Federal Communications
Commission recently voted to increase wireless
spectrum capacity for use in healthcare. This
