Rising Patient Experience Demands in Healthcare

Inside this Report

This report covers the market opportunity for mobile technology solutions to enhance point-of-care workflows across healthcare settings. It provides strategic insights into where digital tools spanning clinical mobility, communication and coordination, documentation, and inventory visibility can meaningfully improve efficiency, accuracy, staff experience, and patient outcomes. The report examines the challenges that healthcare organizations face in delivering care at the bedside, coordinating frontline staff, and managing critical equipment and supplies. It also evaluates the competitive landscape of leading vendors shaping clinical mobility and workflow modernization, highlighting solutions enabling a more connected, efficient, and resilient healthcare environment. Larger hospital and acute care environments represent the primary focus of this analysis, but the scope also incorporates homecare, telehealth, and remote patient monitoring as growing, though comparatively smaller, areas of opportunity. EMS and long-term care are not included. Primary worker personas examined include nurses, physicians, and other frontline clinical staff who interact directly with in-room technology, medical devices, and inventory systems.

What Questions are Addressed?

• 1. What are the most impactful opportunities for mobile and digital technologies to enhance point-of-care workflows, reduce administrative burden, and improve patient outcomes?
• 2. How are healthcare organizations prioritizing investments in clinical mobility such as bedside tablets, handhelds, and mobile EHR access. What factors shape device selection and deployment?
• 3. What challenges do providers face in coordinating frontline staff and closing communication gaps, and how are secure clinical communication and real-time staff visibility tools addressing these needs?
• 4. How are hospitals improving inventory and asset management for equipment, supplies, and medications, and what role do mobile devices, barcoding/RFID, and real-time tracking solutions play?
• 5. How are healthcare organizations adopting AI-enabled tools for documentation, decision support, imaging, and patient monitoring. How do barriers like privacy, reliability, integration, and expertise limit broader deployment?
• 6. What infrastructure requirements, including Wi-Fi, private LTE/5G, device management platforms, and smart hospital systems, are needed to support modern point-of-care mobility, and where do providers continue to face limitations?
• 7. How are shared device models evolving in healthcare, and what best practices are emerging around security, identity management, hygiene, and lifecycle management?
• 8. Which vendors and technologies are key to enhancing clinical mobility through workflow modernization and inventory visibility. How is the competitive landscape evolving?

Who Should Read this Report?

The target audience for this report is decision-makers with marketing, sales, product development, and/or partner development functional responsibilities within organizations that develop, sell, and support solutions for frontline healthcare workers. This includes vendors of clinical mobile devices and accessories, secure communication and workflow platforms, EHR-integrated mobile applications, telehealth and remote monitoring solutions, AI-enabled documentation and analytics tools, healthcare asset/inventory management technologies, and more.

Organizations Listed in this Report

• Apple
• Ascom
• Brother
• BlueFletch
• Bluebird
• Computacenter
• Connection
• Datalogic
• Dell
• DT Research
• Jamf
• NEXA (Social Mobile)
• Samsung
• ScandIt
• Spectralink
• Stryker (Vocera)
• Urovo
• Winmate
• XpertEye
• Zebra