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From CTIA: What’s Hot in the Mobile World?

Wednesday, October 14th, 2009 | located in Conferences/Events, Industry Trends | 2 Comments »

Interesting read from the Editor’s Corner of FierceWireless based on their experience/observations at CTIA.  FierceWireless was the most active press group on the ground there, covering just about every major news announcement across a handful of editors and Twitter updates.

For them, the big ‘winners’ at the show were:

• Mobile healthcare
• Applications/mobile content
• Operating systems, most notably Android
• FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski for his commentary on policy & regulation
• Wireless carriers, most notably Verizon for its pact with Google

The first item ‘Mobile Healthcare’ excites me most. There are some hurdles for sure, but I expect to see more healthcare professionals using mobile devices to access and review patient records and test results, consult drug allergies and other reference material, enter diagnosis information during patient visits, handle billing items, and synchronize information with their organizations’ centralized systems, all without the need for wired network connections.

These benefits are appealing and impressive, both from healthcare delivery and back-office business perspectives. This is just the beginning, but I do hope this is a trend that perculates to the top TO DO list for *someone* in 2010.