Mobile Apps Aren’t Just for the Big Guys

Mar 17, 2015

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I spoke recently with Larry Barnes, vice present and CIO, and Michael McEldowney, director of IT, for Salina Regional Health Center, a small two-hospital system in north-central Kansas. They are proving that fairly sophisticated mobile solutions are not out of reach of community hospitals.

Last week I wrote something about clinicians building mobile apps to target specific populations: either other clinicians or patients with chronic conditions. But another area of growth is mobile apps for delivering the same information that is in a patient portal.

And from a recent discussion I learned that offering those types of mobile apps is not just the province of large health systems.