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Budget limitations and spending cuts are stifling innovation in the NHS and preventing it from taking advantage of the potential benefits offered by digital technology.
That's according to Simon Watson, director at mobility management and workplace solutions provider Spectralink, who makes the comments as the NHS attempts to move towards being a paperless organisation by 2018 in an effort to improve efficiency and cut costs.
"Whilst there are pockets of innovative practice up and down the country, the NHS as a whole is struggling to make the most of the mobile and digital technologies available," he told Computing.
http://www.computing.co.uk/ctg/news/2324191/nhs-struggling-to-adapt-to-digital-tech-says-spectralink
That's according to Simon Watson, director at mobility management and workplace solutions provider Spectralink, who makes the comments as the NHS attempts to move towards being a paperless organisation by 2018 in an effort to improve efficiency and cut costs.
"Whilst there are pockets of innovative practice up and down the country, the NHS as a whole is struggling to make the most of the mobile and digital technologies available," he told Computing.
http://www.computing.co.uk/ctg/news/2324191/nhs-struggling-to-adapt-to-digital-tech-says-spectralink