Healthcare Organizations and Mobile Devices

Healthcare Organizations and Mobile Devices

Introduction

Organizations depend upon IT to improve their business. Modern age is the age of technological innovation. Nowadays, it is necessary for growth of an organization to improve the IT structure in order to remain successful in the market. Competition is everywhere in the market and without use of modern technology, organizations cannot resist in front of other organizations. In this era healthcare organizations utilizes different modern and advance techniques in order to provide sufficient services to their patients (Bialo et.al, 2013). Healthcare organizations provide different facilities to their customers like diagnoses, different operations, surgeries etc. The utilization of information technology makes the functions of organization easy and stress free.

Thesis Statement: It is necessary to adopt modern wireless technologies in order to get success in profession of healthcare

It is necessary for an organization going to adopt modern techniques in information technology to know the merits, demerits, and challenges in the implementation of wireless technology. The plan is to develop the IT department of an organization by installing mobile devices in order to increase the performance and reliability. Wired devices are now become obsolete and now most of the organizations use wireless or mobile devices in order to enhance the performance of organization (Honnegowda et.al, 2013).

Present age is the age of information technology. Most of the healthcare organizations use mobile devices in information technology. Mobile devices include mobile computers, digital devices used to monitor the uncertainty in patients, smart devices used for different functions (tablets, phones, notebooks etc.), wireless internet and connection devices etc. It is necessary to calculate the risk using mobile devices in healthcare organizations because it may risk the life of patients.

Discussion

Mobile Devices

Mobile devices includes mobile telecommunication devices like laptops, tablets, smart phones which utilizes GPRS (General Packet Radio Service), EDGE (Enhanced Data Rates for GSM Evolution), and GPS (Global Positioning System) for function and other wireless devices used in information technology (Larson et.al, 2013). They are battery operated devices and require certain time for charge. It can also be used in inaccessible areas where electricity is not available. These devices works on internet and nowadays wireless internet connections are available which can be move anywhere in healthcare organizations. Smart phones also have the facility of internet and can be used to store information on cloud.

Internet connects mobile devices to the globe. Cloud computing can be utilize to transfer the data by means of internet (Ahsan et.al, 2013). The term cloud computing can be defined as the server on internet. Internet connection is available all over the world, so it is better to store data on internet or some space available on websites rather than server systems (DI, N., 2013). It is a better way to store data because this data can be access all over the world by means of internet.

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