Why use mobile technology in health?
Margaret says: Mobile technologies include an ever growing number of small handheld tools like smart phones, PDAs , tablet PCs and media players including iPODs . So why use these in health? Well, ever tried dragging a computer around with you or having to constantly return to a desk top computer to add information, look up information, send information? The answer is so simple. Use something that is small, dependable and includes most of the things you could need. Imagine saving time, plus increasing accuracy with clinical facts. Imagine looking up clinical information immediately on the hospital floor, in the car, in a pharmacy, visiting clients. Imagine sending information to colleagues and easily recording voice, handwriting on a screen, looking at video and catching up on some just-in-time learning as well. Yes it is all now technology, and I must say inexpensive technology to boot. Doctors travel a lot on foot in a hospital. So do a lot of other hospital workers and mobile health
