More Work Needed on 3G Healthcare Applications

Wireless Healthcare, the Cambridge UK based ehealth consultancy, has suggested that a special interest group is formed to develop and exploit healthcare applications for 3G networks.
Wireless Healthcare, the Cambridge UK based ehealth consultancy, has suggested that a special interest group is formed to develop and exploit healthcare applications for 3G networks. In a recently published white paper Wireless Healthcare lists some of the problems specialist ehealth vendors encounter when they attempt to market products and services in the UK. The paper points out that the NHS's National Programme for IT (NPfIT) has had a radical impact on the ehealth market. Niche vendors have seen their evangelistic early adopters within the NHS replaced by risk adverse Application Service Providers (ASPs). Wireless Healthcare suggests that an alliance of ehealth vendors could produce bundles of proven applications. As these bundles would require minimal integration by ASPs they would have greater appeal than a selection of individual products. An alliance of vendors would also find it easier to negotiate with the companies that have already won contracts to supply the NHS with IT infrastructure.
(www.wirelesshealthcare.co.uk)