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Stephen E Lapinsky - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Research Critical care procedure logging using Handheld Computers
2020Co-Authors: J Carlos Martinez-motta, Thomas E Stewart, Robin Walker, John Granton, Simon Abrahamson, Stephen E LapinskyAbstract:Introduction We conducted this study to evaluate the feasibility of implementing an internet-linked Handheld Computer procedure logging system in a critical care training program. Methods Subspecialty trainees in the Interdepartmental Division of Critical Care at the University of Toronto received and were trained in the use of Palm Handheld Computers loaded with a customized program for logging critical care procedures. The procedures were entered into the Handheld device using checkboxes and drop-down lists, and data were uploaded to a central database via the internet. To evaluate the feasibility of this system, we tracked the utilization of this data collection system. Benefits and disadvantages were assessed through surveys. Results All 11 trainees successfully uploaded data to the central database, but only six (55%) continued to upload data on a regular basis. The most common reason cited for not using the system pertained to initial technical problems with data uploading. From 1 July 2002 to 30 June 2003, a total of 914 procedures were logged. Significant variability was noted in the number of procedures logged by individual trainees (range 13–242). The database generated by regular users provided potentially useful information to the training program director regarding the scope and location of procedural training among the different rotations and hospitals. Conclusion A Handheld Computer procedure logging system can be effectively used in a critical care training program. However, user acceptance was not uniform, and continued training and support are required to increase user acceptance. Such a procedure database may provide valuable information that may be used to optimize trainees' educational experience and to document clinical training experience for licensing and accreditation.
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prospective evaluation of an internet linked Handheld Computer critical care knowledge access system
Critical Care, 2004Co-Authors: Stephen E Lapinsky, Randy Showalter, Carlos J Martinezmotta, David Hallett, Sangeeta Mehta, Lisa Burry, Thomas E StewartAbstract:Introduction Critical care physicians may benefit from immediate access to medical reference material. We evaluated the feasibility and potential benefits of a Handheld Computer based knowledge access system linking a central academic intensive care unit (ICU) to multiple community-based ICUs.
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Critical care procedure logging using Handheld Computers
Critical Care, 2004Co-Authors: J Carlos Martinez-motta, Thomas E Stewart, Robin Walker, John Granton, Simon Abrahamson, Stephen E LapinskyAbstract:We conducted this study to evaluate the feasibility of implementing an internet-linked Handheld Computer procedure logging system in a critical care training program. Subspecialty trainees in the Interdepartmental Division of Critical Care at the University of Toronto received and were trained in the use of Palm Handheld Computers loaded with a customized program for logging critical care procedures. The procedures were entered into the Handheld device using checkboxes and drop-down lists, and data were uploaded to a central database via the internet. To evaluate the feasibility of this system, we tracked the utilization of this data collection system. Benefits and disadvantages were assessed through surveys. All 11 trainees successfully uploaded data to the central database, but only six (55%) continued to upload data on a regular basis. The most common reason cited for not using the system pertained to initial technical problems with data uploading. From 1 July 2002 to 30 June 2003, a total of 914 procedures were logged. Significant variability was noted in the number of procedures logged by individual trainees (range 13–242). The database generated by regular users provided potentially useful information to the training program director regarding the scope and location of procedural training among the different rotations and hospitals. A Handheld Computer procedure logging system can be effectively used in a critical care training program. However, user acceptance was not uniform, and continued training and support are required to increase user acceptance. Such a procedure database may provide valuable information that may be used to optimize trainees' educational experience and to document clinical training experience for licensing and accreditation.
Julie A Jacko - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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an exploratory investigation of Handheld Computer interaction for older adults with visual impairments
Conference on Computers and Accessibility, 2005Co-Authors: Kathlene V Leonard, Julie A Jacko, Joseph PizzimentiAbstract:This study explores factors affecting Handheld Computer interaction for older adults with Age-related Macular Degeneration (AMD). This is largely uncharted territory, as empirical investigations of human-Computer interaction (HCI) concerning users with visual dysfunction and/or older adults have focused primarily on desktop Computers. For this study, participants with AMD and visually-healthy controls used a Handheld Computer to search, select and manipulate familiar playing card icons under varied icon set sizes, inter-icon spacing and auditory feedback conditions. While all participants demonstrated a high rate of task completion, linear regression revealed several relationships between task efficiency and the interface, user characteristics and ocular factors. Two ocular measures, severity of AMD and contrast sensitivity, were found to be highly predictive of efficiency. The outcomes of this work reveal that users with visual impairments can effectively interact with GUIs on small displays in the presence of low-cost, easily implemented design interventions. This study presents a rich data set and is intended to inspire future work exploring the interactions of individuals with visual impairments with non-traditional information technology platforms, such as Handheld Computers.
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ASSETS - An exploratory investigation of Handheld Computer interaction for older adults with visual impairments
Proceedings of the 7th international ACM SIGACCESS conference on Computers and accessibility - Assets '05, 2005Co-Authors: V. Kathlene Leonard, Julie A Jacko, Joseph PizzimentiAbstract:This study explores factors affecting Handheld Computer interaction for older adults with Age-related Macular Degeneration (AMD). This is largely uncharted territory, as empirical investigations of human-Computer interaction (HCI) concerning users with visual dysfunction and/or older adults have focused primarily on desktop Computers. For this study, participants with AMD and visually-healthy controls used a Handheld Computer to search, select and manipulate familiar playing card icons under varied icon set sizes, inter-icon spacing and auditory feedback conditions. While all participants demonstrated a high rate of task completion, linear regression revealed several relationships between task efficiency and the interface, user characteristics and ocular factors. Two ocular measures, severity of AMD and contrast sensitivity, were found to be highly predictive of efficiency. The outcomes of this work reveal that users with visual impairments can effectively interact with GUIs on small displays in the presence of low-cost, easily implemented design interventions. This study presents a rich data set and is intended to inspire future work exploring the interactions of individuals with visual impairments with non-traditional information technology platforms, such as Handheld Computers.
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a review and a framework of Handheld Computer adoption in healthcare
International Journal of Medical Informatics, 2005Co-Authors: Yenchiao Lu, Yan Xiao, Andrew Sears, Julie A JackoAbstract:Summary Wide adoption of mobile computing technology can potentially improve information access, enhance workflow, and promote evidence-based practice to make informed and effective decisions at the point of care. Handheld Computers or personal digital assistants (PDAs) offer portable and unobtrusive access to clinical data and relevant information at the point of care. This article reviews the literature on issues related to adoption of PDAs in health care and barriers to PDA adoption. Studies showed that PDAs were used widely in health care providers' practice, and the level of use is expected to rise rapidly. Most care providers found PDAs to be functional and useful in areas of documentation, medical reference, and access to patient data. Major barriers to adoption were identified as usability, security concerns, and lack of technical and organizational support. PDAs offer health care practitioners advantages to enhance their clinical practice. However, better designed PDA hardware and software applications, more institutional support, seamless integration of PDA technology with hospital information systems, and satisfactory security measures are necessary to increase acceptance and wide use of PDAs in healthcare.
Michael L Parchman - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Handheld Computer use in u s family practice residency programs
Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association, 2002Co-Authors: Dan F Criswell, Michael L ParchmanAbstract:Objective: The purpose of the study was to evaluate the uses of Handheld Computers (also called personal digital assistants, or PDAs) in family practice residency programs in the United States. Study Design: In November 2000, the authors mailed a questionnaire to the program directors of all American Academy of Family Physicians (AAFP) and American College of Osteopathic Family Practice (ACOFP) residency programs in the United States. Measurements: Data and patterns of the use and non-use of Handheld Computers were identified. Results: Approximately 50 percent (306 of 610) of the programs responded to the survey. Two thirds of the programs reported that Handheld Computers were used in their residencies, and an additional 14 percent had plans for implementation within 24 months. Both the Palm and the Windows CE operating systems were used, with the Palm operating system the most common. Military programs had the highest rate of use (8 of 10 programs, 80 percent), and osteopathic programs had the lowest (23 of 55 programs, 42 percent). Of programs that reported Handheld Computer use, 45 percent had required Handheld Computer applications that are used uniformly by all users. Funding for Handheld Computers and related applications was non-budgeted in 76percent of the programs in which Handheld Computers were used. In programs providing a budget for Handheld Computers, the average annual budget per user was $461.58. Interested faculty or residents, rather than Computer information services personnel, performed upkeep and maintenance of Handheld Computers in 72 percent of the programs in which the Computers are used. In addition to the installed calendar, memo pad, and address book, the most common clinical uses of Handheld Computers in the programs were as medication reference tools, electronic textbooks, and clinical computational or calculator-type programs. Conclusions: Handheld Computers are widely used in family practice residency programs in the United States. Although Handheld Computers were designed as electronic organizers, in family practice residencies they are used as medication reference tools, electronic textbooks, and clinical computational programs and to track activities that were previously associated with desktop database applications.
Thomas E Stewart - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Research Critical care procedure logging using Handheld Computers
2020Co-Authors: J Carlos Martinez-motta, Thomas E Stewart, Robin Walker, John Granton, Simon Abrahamson, Stephen E LapinskyAbstract:Introduction We conducted this study to evaluate the feasibility of implementing an internet-linked Handheld Computer procedure logging system in a critical care training program. Methods Subspecialty trainees in the Interdepartmental Division of Critical Care at the University of Toronto received and were trained in the use of Palm Handheld Computers loaded with a customized program for logging critical care procedures. The procedures were entered into the Handheld device using checkboxes and drop-down lists, and data were uploaded to a central database via the internet. To evaluate the feasibility of this system, we tracked the utilization of this data collection system. Benefits and disadvantages were assessed through surveys. Results All 11 trainees successfully uploaded data to the central database, but only six (55%) continued to upload data on a regular basis. The most common reason cited for not using the system pertained to initial technical problems with data uploading. From 1 July 2002 to 30 June 2003, a total of 914 procedures were logged. Significant variability was noted in the number of procedures logged by individual trainees (range 13–242). The database generated by regular users provided potentially useful information to the training program director regarding the scope and location of procedural training among the different rotations and hospitals. Conclusion A Handheld Computer procedure logging system can be effectively used in a critical care training program. However, user acceptance was not uniform, and continued training and support are required to increase user acceptance. Such a procedure database may provide valuable information that may be used to optimize trainees' educational experience and to document clinical training experience for licensing and accreditation.
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prospective evaluation of an internet linked Handheld Computer critical care knowledge access system
Critical Care, 2004Co-Authors: Stephen E Lapinsky, Randy Showalter, Carlos J Martinezmotta, David Hallett, Sangeeta Mehta, Lisa Burry, Thomas E StewartAbstract:Introduction Critical care physicians may benefit from immediate access to medical reference material. We evaluated the feasibility and potential benefits of a Handheld Computer based knowledge access system linking a central academic intensive care unit (ICU) to multiple community-based ICUs.
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Critical care procedure logging using Handheld Computers
Critical Care, 2004Co-Authors: J Carlos Martinez-motta, Thomas E Stewart, Robin Walker, John Granton, Simon Abrahamson, Stephen E LapinskyAbstract:We conducted this study to evaluate the feasibility of implementing an internet-linked Handheld Computer procedure logging system in a critical care training program. Subspecialty trainees in the Interdepartmental Division of Critical Care at the University of Toronto received and were trained in the use of Palm Handheld Computers loaded with a customized program for logging critical care procedures. The procedures were entered into the Handheld device using checkboxes and drop-down lists, and data were uploaded to a central database via the internet. To evaluate the feasibility of this system, we tracked the utilization of this data collection system. Benefits and disadvantages were assessed through surveys. All 11 trainees successfully uploaded data to the central database, but only six (55%) continued to upload data on a regular basis. The most common reason cited for not using the system pertained to initial technical problems with data uploading. From 1 July 2002 to 30 June 2003, a total of 914 procedures were logged. Significant variability was noted in the number of procedures logged by individual trainees (range 13–242). The database generated by regular users provided potentially useful information to the training program director regarding the scope and location of procedural training among the different rotations and hospitals. A Handheld Computer procedure logging system can be effectively used in a critical care training program. However, user acceptance was not uniform, and continued training and support are required to increase user acceptance. Such a procedure database may provide valuable information that may be used to optimize trainees' educational experience and to document clinical training experience for licensing and accreditation.
Janice P Van Dijk - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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using a personal digital assistant enhances gathering of patient data on an acute pain management service a pilot study
Canadian Journal of Anaesthesia-journal Canadien D Anesthesie, 2003Co-Authors: Elizabeth G. Vandenkerkhof, Jeremy Lane, Michael J Rimmer, David H. Goldstein, Janice P Van DijkAbstract:Purpose Handheld Computer technology provides a unique opportunity for health care professionals to access real time or near real time patient information and evidence-based resources at the point-of-care. The purpose of this study was to assess one physician’s experience using acute pain assessment software on a personal digital assistant (PDA) to assess patients on an acute pain management service (APMS).
