Wednesday, January 10, 2007

More and More Physicians Getting Rounding Data via PDA's

PDAs keeping Ill. doctors up to speed

When David Rogers needed quick results from a blood test for one of his
hospitalized patients in the early 1980s, he had to leave the person's
bedside and either make a call to the hospital's laboratory -- a call
that often went unanswered -- or show up at the lab.

Rogers, a pediatric surgeon at Southern Illinois University
School of Medicine, now whips out a personal digital assistant and he
uses a stylus to touch a few icons on a screen slightly larger than a
credit card.

Read more (registration may be required). -- by (Springfield, Ill.) State Journal-Register





powered by performancing firefox

No comments: