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PubMed2003

Integrating mobile technology into a health professions curriculum: using flexible technology to meet expectations.

The diverse needs of students, faculty, administrators, and the curriculum itself, create formidable challenges when attempting to integrate mobile technology into a health professions curriculum. Single technology solutions often fail in this environment because they cannot meet user needs. Multiple platform and device agnostic solutions can provide the flexibility to address curricular needs without significantly adding technological complexity.

Computers, Handheld↗
PubMed2003

The knowledge modeling for chronic urticaria assessment in clinical decision support system with PDA.

The benefits of a clinical information system would be enhanced by a clinical decision support system (CDSS). We have developed urticaria diagnosis knowledge model for clinical practice. In order to construct a more accurate, evidenced-based and comprehensive knowledge base for urticaria, we arranged and integrated knowledge from literatures-based knowledge, as provided by; The Korean Academy of Asthma and Allergy [1], the American Allergy Association based on an algorithm of chronic urticaria assessment. We presented this knowledge in a Boolean cross table frame and implemented these guidelines using the developed CDSS.

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PubMed2003

DeTMan: a decision tree management tool for the Web and PDA environments.

Illness management protocols, often represented as decision trees, are used in many areas of medicine. Some clinical departments maintain numerous, often quite complex protocols. Protocol access in acute care situations can be challenging, especially when available only in hardcopy format. Access via the web and especially via personal digital assistants would be more helpful. In the absence of the prior availability of a general purpose web/PDA decision tree editor/navigator, we are developing such a tool.

Clinical Protocols↗
PubMed2003

Implementing wireless evaluation in a hospital-based OSCE center.

To provide an effective and efficient means to gather assessment data during Objective Structured Clinical Examinations [OSCEs] and integrate the data into ANGEL, the Indiana University School of Medicine's [IUSM] curriculum management system, a wireless approach using PDAs was selected, configured and evaluated. Following a systems architecture and human-computer interface analysis of the project, a system with less functionality but greater reliability was designed and implemented.

Clinical Competence↗
PubMed2003

Feasibility of a palmtop-based interactive education to promote patient safety.

Institute of Medicine defines "patient safety" as a set of measures taken by healthcare professionals to prevent adverse outcomes from medical errors. Kohn estimated that medical errors are likely to result in a death of 44,000 to 98,000 people in U.S. hospitals each year, making it almost the fifth leading cause of death. The costs of medical errors, made by healthcare professionals, amount to $29 billions annually. Recent studies showed that current system of medical training and continuous education has limited capability in promoting and sustaining awareness of patient safety and medical error issues. Use of Personal Digital Assistants (PDA) has been increasingly widespread among clinical students and residents. Despite significant improvement in PDA functionality, current literature does not provide systematic assessment of potential use of hand-held computing for interactive clinician education. To address these issues, we assessed the feasibility of a PDA-based interactive multimedia tool aimed to provide self-paced patient safety education for clinicians.

Clinical Medicine↗
PubMed2003

Physician PDA use and the HIPAA Privacy Rule.

Physicians need better access to information when making patient care decisions. Hospitals should allow electronic data transfers to physician PDAs to improve patient care, and physicians must institute measures to secure the confidentiality of patient information on their PDAs. By explicitly excluding copies from their designated record set, hospitals need not maintain copies or track access of information on personally owned PDAs.

Computer Security↗
PubMed2003

Preoperative information management system using wireless PDAs.

Personal Digital Assistant (PDA) and wireless communication are currently available in clinical settings. We developed wireless PDA software that assists anesthesiologists in pre-operative patient assessment. The device communicates with the hospital information system through a wireless LAN and is equipped with pre-programmed data entry templates for pre-operative assessment. As a preliminary test of the device, we randomly assigned residents in preoperative assessment to an intervention and a control arm and compared the results.

Anesthesiology↗
PubMed2003

CodeDoc for real-time point-of-care emergencies.

UNLABELLED: Can documentation and synthesis of that data be done in time to positively impact immediate care, improve documentation, decrease time, error, and improve outcome? This poster presents the results of a pilot study that begins to address this question. METHOD: A Cross-over design compares manual 'code blue' documentation to CodeDoc's method. RESULTS: CodeDoc cut documentation time almost in half with fewer errors. CONCLUSION: CodeDoc may have a critical role in improving emergency care.

Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation↗
PubMed2003

A novel way of distributing medical practice guidelines using Personal Digital Assistants (PDA).

With the rapid growth in medical knowledge, physicians' ability to keep up to date has become increasingly difficult. Although the Internet brought significant improvements in access to medical knowledge, there are still problems remaining, particularly for the mobile physician who is unable to perform time-consuming on-line searches, even with wireless access to the Internet. The goal of this project was to develop a novel way of distributing medical knowledge from the Internet to health professionals' Personal Digital Assistants (PDAs). This model delivers targeted information and provides access to that information at the point of care.

Computers, Handheld↗
PubMed2003

A wireless mobile health-related quality of life assessment.

Self-administered waiting room questionnaires are popular tools for gathering health information from patients, but they require optical scanning or manual data entry to obtain survey results. The application described here eliminates those extra steps by inputting the results into a remote database directly through wireless connection, and the assessment can be finished easily anywhere in the clinic through a mobile platform. A measure of health-related quality of life, the SF-8 Health Survey, was used in developing this application for using in the clinical setting. It has only eight questions measuring each of the eight domains of health in the longer SF-36 Health Survey.

Computer Communication Networks↗
PubMed2004

An Australian agency revolutionizes home care with the palm pilot.

Baptist Village, a large nonprofit home health organization in Baxter, Australia, turned to e-technology to improve client care efficiency and reduce staff paperwork while adhering to government regulations and accreditation requirements. The head of the agency explains how Palm Pilots were used to create a system to accomplish their goals.

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PubMed2004

Physician use of IT: results from the Deloitte Research Survey.

The authors analyzed 1,200 physician responses to a Deloitte Research/Fulcrum Analytics survey of office-based physician use of the Internet and other information technology (IT). Overall, the results suggest that 40 to 50 percent of all respondents are using, or are ready to use, IT for substantial clinical care. However, time and liability concerns about patient e-mail were pervasive across all IT user categories. The results also indicate that some public/private policies aimed at increasing physician IT use for clinical management should be tailored to specific segments of the physician IT user spectrum, rather than using a "one-size-fits-all" policy approach.

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