Alexander H�lzel, you wrote:
AH> Hi Nandalal an the others, >> What is the best device to use? >> One is the PDA See ok. >> What about the mobile phone? Small display. AH> I am not really sure, that PDA is/will be the solution of choice. I have some contacts to the Consultant Surgery of Kassel Hospital/Germany. I spoke him last time personaly 2 years ago in Moskwa at a lions club meeting. They use now since 4 years a self programed Palm solution in their surgery departement with success. AH> Mobile phones, due to EMF-Emissions, are prohibitive in the hospital area. Correct! But normal phones today have the same features and are used widely in hospitals. But i personaly think they are only interesting for getting information about patients data. For input of data it seems to me that they are useless or not practical inside a hospitals workflow. AH> W-LAN still has many problems with quality of transmission and security.. Only a question of good administration and having a good risk management. See the new plugin concept inside care2x. Because of security and having a good risk management it is useless. Be additional highly risk concept. I thought about a possible installation structure and administration. It is possible to make it secure with Linux, but you need a very damned good adminstrator if you like to use it secure. For a webdemo IMHO it is to riscy to test it for my own servers.I provided my concerns about the high risk inside a early mail. AH> Building a new hospital, the best and less expensive solution will be the AH> integration of a multi-function, multi-purpose touch-screen information AH> terminal at every patient bed. Needs a proof of concept. See barcode scan etc... I tested this week the barcode solution inside my hospital departement. It is not practical. The failture quote is to high with barcode scan. The idea of barcode is pretty nice. But if you have some time pressure whats normal in a hospital, than it took me sometimes 10 trys to use it. I suggest as solution to leave and drop this nice and loveley idea and concentrade to another invative solution eg. RFID Tags. A the test was made with a commercial solution. As far as i see only one person inside the departement is using it. Inside the RIS all others use the search function. For them it goes much faster. Open Source special care2x have to become more inovative than proprietary solutions to be accepted. For a first view all seems lovely and easy, but if you think practical we need a team for proof of concepts and ideas. AH> The panel could be used for clinical data AH> entry as well as for broadcasting hospital information to all patients, AH> TV/Video/Internet access for the patient etc. This solution i saw at medica exhibition 4 years ago from Siemens company. As far as i know no hospital is using it realy. AH> So nurses would not have to carry huge and heavy PDAs where batteries will AH> surely expire in case of emergency...(Thinking alone about the energy supply AH> problem(batteries) And the problems of infection? If we use it realy with sence care2x have been more spreaded into much smaller modules with specialized things of information and data input. Not the whole range of possibilities. Access i think will be much to slow. If you stand in front of a patient and it will be need 20 seconds before you got the data or the input form for data - i think this time will be to long. AH> of portable devices puts a nightmare on technical AH> hospital administration. Not even mentioned ecological issues of AH> batteries..). Furthermore: same GUI for all applications, true, fully AH> featured, fully integrated hospital intranet, central security and access AH> rights management, no systems diversity, no energy supply problems ... PDA integration or WLan solutions need a complete different and inovative flexible GUI. In no other way they make sense. AH> BTW. the hardware for such a system is already here, since years, and it is AH> (rather) cheap. Software could be -fairly easily- developed (derived), based AH> on Care2x. ??? I am not shure about it. AH> For existing hospitals, the most expensive part of this model will be the AH> LAN-cabling to every patient bed.. Start with intensive care unit. And be compatible to existing solutions inside hospitals. To realize it for normal wards it will need a more inovative analize than now existing proprietary solutions what still exist. AH> What is needed is a clear concept and hospital planners/administrators ready AH> to innovate their organisations from the ground... Fully agree. -- Mit freundlichen Gr�ssen Wilfried Goedert mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email sponsored by Black Hat Briefings & Training. 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