Evaluating a digital Resident Diagnosis Log: reasons for limited acceptance of a PDA solution.
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Personal digital assistants (PDAs) offer opportunities to speed the process of data collection and analysis. We developed a PDA-based program, the Resident Diagnosis Assistant, which allows neurology residents to collect key diagnostic information about patients seen and treated and the upload this data into a departmental computer. Physicians often use the expenditure of their time to decide whether to accept a new device. (+info)
A comparison of self-documentation in diabetics: electronic versus paper diaries.
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Attention needs to be given to how patients can capitalize on the benefits of Personal Digital Assistant technology. The specific aims of this pilot study are to compare the efficacy of diabetic patients documenting their health maintenance data (i.e. blood glucose levels, meal intake, and exercise) using an electronic patient diary (ED) versus a traditional pen and paper (PD) diary; and determine participants' satisfaction with each diary approach. (+info)
Technology failure analysis: understanding why a diabetes management tool developed for a Personal Digital Assistant (PDA) didn't work in a randomized controlled trial.
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Managing Type 1 Diabetes Mellitus is a challenging feat especially for young patients. It is a tedious and demanding disease which requires painful self-monitoring and injections multiple times per day. Many patients are unable to achieve good blood sugar control, in spite of strong evidence that good control leads to better outcomes. Many caregivers believe that more communication between caregivers and patients could lead to better control. This paper describes a tool that was developed to improve communication between caregivers and patients, its testing, how it failed to achieve its outcomes and recommendations for improvement. (+info)
Development of nursing care support system using PDA with wireless and barcode reader.
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In this study, we developed nursing care support system using Personal Digital Assistants (PDA) with wireless and barcode reader. Our goals were to minimize the cost of deployment, to maximize the ease of operation, and to adapt to existing features and tasks of nursing care. The success of achieving these objectives was evaluated from the case study results involving system training session and trial of the system at a university hospital. (+info)
Integrating mobile technology into a health professions curriculum: using flexible technology to meet expectations.
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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. (+info)
The knowledge modeling for chronic urticaria assessment in clinical decision support system with PDA.
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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. (+info)
Development of infobuttons in a wireless environment.
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At Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center, a clinical information system (CIS) called WebCIS is used by health care providers. We have developed a palm-based extension to WebCIS, called PalmCIS, which provides physicians access to clinical data through a wireless connection. As part of PalmCIS, we have added links to two on-line information resources: PubMed and Micromedex. (+info)
DeTMan: a decision tree management tool for the Web and PDA environments.
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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. (+info)