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Mobile Medicine Breaks the Physician Barrier

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Mar 30, 2005
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Studies of how IT is used in medicine have consistently shown that the people most resistant to information technology are the ones who are most central to making it effective: doctors.

Some doctors fulfill the stereotype of the distracted clinician who is forbidden to use the office equipment by administrative staffers who are tired of having to fix the copier all the time.

Others are comfortable with technology, but dont use it the way the rest of the hospital would prefer.

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