Spok collected data in February, and the survey polled 300 healthcare professionals, including physicians, nursing staff, IT staff and executives.
Here are six findings:
1. Respondents report that hospital support for other devices, such as wide-area pagers, in-house pagers and tablets is waning. Only 50 percent say their hospital supports wide-area pagers and tablets.
2. For non-clinical staff, in-house pagers are most popular, with 48 percent of respondents saying they are the device of choice for non-clinical staff at their hospital.
3. Smartphones rank second (40 percent) as the device of choice for non-clinical staff and Wi-Fi phones come in third (30 percent).
4. Eighty-seven percent of survey participants noted that Wi-Fi network was business critical.
5. Gaps in Wi-Fi coverage at hospitals have dropped from 65 percent in 2016 to 49 percent in 2017, according to respondents.
6. Fifty-nine percent of respondents reported that their hospitals have ‘bring your own device’ programs; however, 19 percent say their hospitals do not allow BYOD in any form and 4 percent note their organizations are planning to incorporate a BYOD program.
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