DEVELOPMENT OF A PERSONAL DIGITAL
ASSISTANT (PDA)
BASED CLIENT/SERVER NICU
PATIENT DATA AND CHARTING SYSTEM ( view
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Aaron E. Carroll 1, MD, Sunil Saluja, MD 1,
3, Peter Tarczy-Hornoch,
MD 1, 2
1Pediatrics and 2Biomedical & Health
Informatics, University of Washington, Seattle, WA
3Division of Newborn
Medicine, Children’s Hospital,
Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA
Abstract
Personal Digital Assistants (PDAs) offer clinicians
the ability to enter and manage critical information
at the point of care. Although PDAs have always
been designed
to be intuitive and easy to use, recent advances
in technology have made them even more accessible.
The ability to link
data on a PDA (client) to a central database
(server) allows for nearunlimited potential in
developing point
of care
applications and systems for patient data
management. Although many stand-alone systems exist
for
PDAs, none are designed
to work in an integrated client/server environment.
This paper describes the design, software and hardware
selection,
and preliminary testing of a PDA based patient
data and charting system for use in the University
of Washington
Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU). This
system will be the subject of a subsequent study to
determine
its
impact
on patient outcomes and clinician efficiency.
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