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PubMed2002

Hand-held devices ease burden of behavioral health assessment.

Numerous studies show that people suffering from depression and other behavioral health disorders are among the highest utilizers of care, but primary care physicians often miss behavioral diagnoses because they don't have the time to administer and analyze effective screens for these conditions. To ease this burden, a Denver, CO-based company has developed an approach that takes advantage of a hand-held device and an array of quick evidence-based screens that can point providers in the right direction in a matter of minutes.

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PubMed2002

The USU medical PDA initiative: the PDA as an educational tool.

A medical personal digital assistant (PDA) initiative for healthcare students began in 2000 at the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences (USU). The University issued PDAs to Graduate School of Nursing (GSN) and School of Medicine (SOM) students. These devices were used to provide clinical reference material to the students, to facilitate clinical experience log collection, and the normal organizer functions of a PDA. Both medical and graduate nursing students were surveyed both before and during clinical training to determine the perceived usefulness of the PDA. A quantitative approach was utilized to emphasize the measurable variables.

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PubMed2003

Infrastructural considerations for supporting POC devices. Healthcare executives must focus on creating integration-friendly environments for the most effective use of mobile devices.

Creating an integration-friendly infrastructure is the best way to prepare for current as well as next-generation POC devices. Fortunately, hassle-free system integration is needed throughout healthcare today for reasons beyond the domain of POC devices, so integration progress already made in other areas helps pave the way for POC devices. Healthcare IT professionals, as much or more than any other IT group, have had to deal with the challenges of integrating disparate systems. When considering deployment of POC devices, you will want to make sure they adhere to open industry standards. In this way, these important devices won't add to the problem of disparate systems, but will contribute to the solution. We see XML and Web services as being especially important to the future of healthcare delivery and administration. XML and Web services, along with powerful orchestrators, can provide an ever-richer collection of clinical data to be delivered to, and received from, the POC devices that will become an ever more important addition to the physician armamentarium.

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PubMed2003

Introducing personal digital assistants to family physician teachers.

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES: In our previous projects, students and residents have readily adopted personal digital assistants (PDAs), but faculty have generally been reluctant. The objective of the project reported here was to maximize adoption of PDAs by our faculty, using a combination of strategies. METHODS: Through cost-shared funding, we provided full-time and community teachers with PocketPCs or Handspring Visors, along with preinstalled medical software. Use patterns and satisfaction were assessed by structured questionnaire and focus group discussions. RESULTS: For the calendar, address book, and pharmacopoeia, we found that 83% of faculty use these two to three times per day. Cost sharing and software preinstallation were popular. Device synchronization and e-mail showed potential but caused problems. Easy access to technical support from peers and a variety of information-sharing structures eased maintenance issues. Point-of-care data access was important to faculty. CONCLUSIONS: With the right support structures, faculty adopt PDAs in clinical and teaching settings.

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PubMed2003

The IT culture. How's yours coming?

Sure, you've invested in information technology. But do you really understand it? Is IT essential to your organization's success? Is your thinking about IT truly forward-thinking? Or do you end up with a lot of gizmos that, despite being really cool, just don't get used? Also: why health care is not like banking.

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