It is post HIMSS a week and I sure thousands of blogs have been sent and this is just another one..so will keep this short. While we had over 1,000 exhibitors one thing that impressed me was the huge focus on wireless and mobility to include the applications. What caught my eye in a graph was the importance of wireless and mobility versus EHR and meaningful use, right out of HIMSS “Top Ten Trends in Healthcare”. This is additionally backed up by the image of the growth of mobility applications. Essentially while EHR Adoption and Meaningful Use had top priority at 55.5%, the Importance of Wireless and Mobile Computing was 32.3% versus 11.5% of EHR Adoption and Meaningful Use. It just confirms that fact that as a vertical, healthcare is the most mobile and thus has a plethora of medical devices, smart phones, computers on wheels and voice over IP phones that are wireless. The EHR is decoupled from the desktop to all these mobile devices, thus while the need and the insatiable need for bandwidth.
Cisco recent announcement into the Femtocell Market confirms the growth and convergence of 3G via WiFi, and that the indoor cellular space simply needs to be built out because of the capacity needs. I can pretty much make this statement, that the days of putting up “cell towers” as we know it is over.
The capacity to grow has to be brought inside…and it is no longer about WiFi. Guess what you know why a lot of folks had a lot of trouble connecting to the carriers’ network while at the HIMSS? It was about capacity overwhelming either the cell site, or the BTS was not built out to capacity. One solution is Femtocells…which is fine IF you have the back haul built out.
That is where optical will rein. It is low cost, has huge capacity, and works. As you know I am big fan of SOLID…it is not just the fiber dude as they say…it about is about everything else!
In the not too distant future the days of stringing coaxial cable throughout will more than likely be over…as well as probably ethernet as we know it.
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