Under the American recovery and reinvestment Act of 2009,$19 billion was allocated to accelerate adoption of healt IT systems by doctors and hospitals in order to modernize the health care system, save billions of dollars, reduce medical errors, and improve quality.
U.S hospital spending on information technology will hit $4.7 billion in 2012 and grow to $6.8 billion by 2014,79% of physicians prefer the ipad
12% would go for a windows-based tablet
9% would go for an Android model.
GETTING SOCIAL..
Two-thirds of doctors are using social media for professional purposes.Hospital social media accounts
- 1,188 Hospitals Total
- 458 Linkedin Account
- 548 YouTube Cahnnels
- 1018 Facebook pages
- 788 Twitter Accounts
- 913 Four square
- 137 blogs.
