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Published on: 7/1/2007
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When Gay Madden became vice president of information systems at The Hospice of the Florida Suncoast almost three years ago, she was confronted by a daunting task.
She was told to implement an integrated point-of-care system for an organization that offers care in various locations.Clinicians at the hospice treat patients in homes, hospitals, hospice facilities and homeless shelters.
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To improve clinician use of the system at the point of care, Madden decided to swap the notebooks for Tablet PCs equipped with electronic pen functionality.She concluded that the pens would enable clinicians to enter data into the organization's EMR/billing software while treating a patient without inhibiting the care process.
After ensuring the Suncoast Solutions system could support Tablet PCs, Madden purchased 600 of the LifeBook devices from Fujitsu Computer Systems Corp., Sunnyvale, Calif., and began training clinicians how to use them.
She also purchased CDMA wireless cards for the Tablet PCs to enable physicians to connect to the hospice's server via a mobile phone network and synch their data.Now about 95% of the organization's clinicians are using the Tablet PCs to document and send data from various points of care, Madden says.Not only is documentation more efficient, the organization also is better able to share information with their patients' family and other members of their care team, including hospital physicians, she adds.
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