NYTimes.com > Technology Hospitals Turn Off the Pagers and Find the Doctor Faster By BARNABY J. FEDER Published: May 4, 2004 BIG PLANS for using wireless devices to streamline business practices - by tracking things like an individual yogurt container from the factory floor to the grocery store door - keep slipping into the future. But when Brian Horton, the director of the emergency department at Mercy Medical Center in Roseburg, Ore., needs to talk to somebody right this minute, he no longer has to have the nurse or doctor paged. He presses a button on a palm-size device, speaks the person's name and, in most cases, gets an immediate reply. So far, hospitals are the front line in the integration of wireless into the workplace.
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