Project ProMED.
Abstract
The results of Project ProMED clearly demonstrated the potential usefulness of Personal Digital Assistants (PDAs), in particular, Apple's Newton MessagePad, in the health care environment of military medical centers. ProMED proved that PDA technology provides value in the clinical/medical computing environment, when used as (a) a personal productivity tool, (b) a wireless communicator for mobile practitioners, and (c) an interactive patient care information delivery resume. Health care providers adapted easily to the health care applications on the Newton Message Pad because of the natural graphical user interface (GUI) designed by the developer, KPMG Peat Marwick. The ProMED software solutions replaced cumbersome, paper-laden processes and allowed practitioners to practice medicine in a more natural, behavioristic way. On-line, real time access to important clinical and financial information provides the basis for the physician and other health care providers to provide quality, cost-efficient patient care. Clearly, though, Project ProMED illustrated that the long-term value of this type of technology in health care lies in its mobile communications capabilities and the ability to dynamically interact with the enterprise system and electronic medical record repository.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Oct 01, 1995
- Accession Number
- ADB211247
Entities
People
- Robert R. Whitecotton