Wireless industry wants in on health care stimulus money

Companies in the wireless industry hope they can jump on the stimulus spending gravy-train as hospitals and other medical facilities seek money from the government's economic stimulus package. For example, $19 billion is being allocated to help doctors, hospitals, and other medical agencies convert from paper to electronic medical records. While electronic medical records themselves have nothing to do with wireless technology, a Qualcomm official said that wireless devices that gather information that feeds into these medical records via a wireless network make the actual electronic record more valuable.

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