Strayer SM et al, Family Medicine, 42(9)
BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES:
Previous research has examined patients’ attitudes toward use of exam room computers by physicians. Our objective was to determine patient attitudes toward physicians’ exam room use of new tablet computers.
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Don Fluckinger, Health IT Pulse
“Today, Motorola Inc. released the MC-75A0-HC, an enterprise digital assistant, or EDA — basically, its name for its line of ruggedized personal digital assistants (PDAs).
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EMR Daily News
“Stimulus incentives designed to spur hospitals and physicians to use EMR systems are among several factors that will drive growth of handheld devices in healthcare, according to a new report from healthcare market research publisher Kalorama Information.
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Hachizuka M et al, Journal of Palliative Medicine, 2010
Purpose:
Previous studies have found that inappropriate assessment of cancer pain can lead to inadequate pain management. To improve assessment, it may be helpful to collect real-time data in a natural environment using computerized ecological momentary assessment (cEMA). Therefore, the aim of the study was to develop a personal digital assistant (PDA) system to collect information on symptoms such as pain and mood states in patients with cancer using cEMA.
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Tani S et al, Journal of Medical Systems, 34(3)
Recently, a patient with diabetes mellitus (DM) type 2 has been increasing in Japan. The patient should be managed not only by a specialist but also by himself focusing his attention on the improvement of his lifestyle at home. In the present study, we tried to develop a health management support system by which a diabetic patient in early stage can easily enter his daily life information, i.e. the biological information such as the data of blood sugar levels and blood pressure levels etc., the information of exercise and diet and send the information to the medical institution with a personal digital assistant (PDA). Afterwards, the patient can receive health instruction information by the physician in charge for self-care at his home with a PDA.
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Neil Versel, FierceMobileHealthcare
“Health authorities in Tanzania are embracing smartphones, PDAs and even basic mobile phones to follow international disease-management protocols for young children in hopes of breaking a decades-long cycle of aid money doing little to improve health conditions in low-income countries.
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BlueApoc, HealthTechnica
“Justin Harper looked at his Apple iPod touch and saw a world of possibility. This third-year OSU medical student helped launch a program that now benefits all medical students at The College of Medicine, the only college currently giving the iPod touch to all its students for educational purposes.
Now, medical students can carry the equivalent of heavy textbooks and medical references in their lab coat pockets. The iPod touch has the potential to positively impact both medical education and the care provided to patients at the bedside, says Catherine Lucey, MD, vice dean for education.”
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ScienceDaily
“Handheld devices such as personal digital assistants (PDAs) and the iPod Touch are prevalent among doctors.
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Bernie Monegain, Healthcare IT News
“A team of University of Houston researchers is designing an in-home health-monitoring system that will notify caregivers, via smartphones or PDAs, if their patients need attention.
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Kat Sanders, The Medical Quack
“It has already revolutionized the way we visualize a cell phone; now the iPhone is going one step higher and making itself extremely useful to the medical community. With the SDK released to third party developers, applications that are necessary for the medical community are finding their way into the iPhone’s memory.
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Manhattan Research
“Physicians and Emerging Information Technologies, is a syndicated multi-client physician research study and advisory service focused on understanding technology adoption and integration trends among U.S. practicing physicians.
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Neil Versel's Healthcare IT Blog
“Grammy-winning Senegalese musician Youssou N’Dour is spearheading a charity album to benefit and raise awareness for the IntraHealth OPEN initiative to help bring open-source health IT to health workers across Africa.
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RedOrbit
“For patients who have drug-resistant forms of tuberculosis, it’s critical to monitor the disease as closely as possible. That means monthly testing throughout a two-year course of powerful antibiotics, with injections six days a week for the first six months.
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“Student nurse Chris Chapman got ready to give her next patient his medications Wednesday morning at Parkview Hospital. She logged onto a laptop computer on a rolling cart and checked Jeff Enyeart’s chart for the drugs and dosages he needed.
From the pocket in her scrubs, she pulled out a Palm Pilot and brought up information on the medications in a drug reference guide, one of five nursing textbooks on her PDA.”
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Jennifer L. Boen, The News-Sentinel, 18 September 2008
“Interview with John Pringle
Program manager for electronic documentation for the City of San Diego Fire and Rescue department, John Pringle has played an integral role in the development of TapChart, San Diego’s PDA-based information capture system, which has been used by EMS responders in the city for the past decade. John spoke on this topic at TEPR 2008 and will be doing an update at TEPR+ 2009 as well as organizing presentations there on other EMS implementations of electronic patient documentation.”
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MRI Newsletter, July 2008
