title: Vital lifeline or patient exploitation?
abstract: Heralded on their introduction as important lifelines for patients in hospital, patient information/entertainment systems and their manufacturers have faced considerable commercial and practical challenges, leading some suppliers to abandon the UK market altogether and leaving others under massive financial pressure. Jonathan Baillie reports.
authors: Jonathan
authors: J
authors: Baillie
mesh_terms: D003132:Commerce; D004059:Diffusion of Innovation; D006751:Hospital Information Systems / Q000191:economics* / Q000458:organization & administration / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D006779:Hospitals, Public; D006801:Humans; D007297:Inpatients / Q000193:education*; D013222:State Medicine; D006113:United Kingdom