Virtua Health Rolls Out PDAs to Nurses, Happy with Results
Virtua West Jersey Hospital Voorhees, a New Jersey facility part of Virtua Health, first ran a pilot with ten nurses equiped with Dell PDAs (Personal Digital Assistants) running MData software from Mercury MD. This allowed nurses to obtain much more information such as diagnostic reports or patient medication history directly from the bedside through a wireless network. They formerly had to stop what they were doing to access the hospital network on desktop computers located in a common area, obviously at the cost of time wasted walking around and possibly waiting for an available computer. The new portable devices also ease communication with patients and their families. Virtua thus decided to roll out these tools to 256 nurses with a focus on intensive care units. Health Data Management reports.
February 27, 2006 Related topics: Wireless, IT & software