Hello Ingo, our hospital has started an experimental laptop based system (commercial, closed sourced) for the daily rounds in one nursing station. I have not seen it personally but I can say that the personnel are still doing double work because the patients from this station still arrive at our OR rooms with the usual paper and folder charts.
Maybe other hospitals in other countries have different experience. imho, such systems will only succeed if: a) it does not add more work to the personnel b) it simplifies the current workflow c) ideally it reduces the workload on the personnel d) it is easy to learn and use, ideally no special training required Doctors, nurses and other health personnel are intelligent people but their mindframe belong to another domain which is quite different from programmer's domain. They are more interested in people than pure technology. elpidio >Wednesday 23 June 2004 08:15, Ingo Zugenmaier wrote: > I recently talked with a nurse about Care2x, and there came up one > question about the daily routines: > > Is it planned that nurses take PDA (or laptops) with them when they do > their daily 'round' (inspections) on patients, for example measure > temperature, pulse, blood pressure and so on? Do they write that > information down (on paper) for each patient and then, after finishing > all, enter it in the desktop computer? That seems to be double work. > > Does anybody know if there are hospitals where laptops are used on wards > for that work? > > Regards, > > Ingo Zugenmaier ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email sponsored by Black Hat Briefings & Training. Attend Black Hat Briefings & Training, Las Vegas July 24-29 - digital self defense, top technical experts, no vendor pitches, unmatched networking opportunities. Visit www.blackhat.com _______________________________________________ Care2002-developers mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/care2002-developers
