A wireless Internet application for healthcare

Author

Seshadri, Krishnan ; Liotta, Lance ; Gopal, Rakesh ; Liotta, Ty

fYear

2001

fDate

2001

Firstpage

109

Lastpage

114

Abstract

The use of the Internet in daily healthcare business processes is still minimal compared to other industries. Healthcare information is inherently “mobile”, i.e. it travels with the patient - and therefore, the need for information to be ubiquitously available is key to efficient and improved diagnostic accuracy, reliable care and reduced medical errors. This paper describes an elegant and intuitive wireless healthcare application for prescription writing and laboratory test review which leverages the Internet and significantly enhances the productivity of physicians, clinical laboratories and pharmacies, while at the same time saving patients time, improving accuracy in healthcare and providing an insight into future trends in healthcare applications

Keywords

Internet; biomedical communication; health care; medical information systems; mobile computing; mobile radio; wireless LAN; clinical laboratories; diagnostic accuracy; healthcare business processes; laboratory test review; medical errors; mobile information; patient time saving; pharmacies; physicians; prescription writing; productivity; reliable patient care; ubiquitously available information; wireless Internet application; Information technology; Internet; Laboratories; Medical diagnostic imaging; Medical services; Physics computing; Portable computers; Testing; Wireless application protocol; Writing;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Computer-Based Medical Systems, 2001. CBMS 2001. Proceedings. 14th IEEE Symposium on

Conference_Location

Bethesda, MD

ISSN

1063-7125

Print_ISBN

0-7695-1004-3

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/CBMS.2001.941706

Filename

941706