Title :
Use of Hand Held Devices in a Western Australian Health Sector
Author :
Patel, Keyurkumar J. ; Gururajan, Raj
Author_Institution :
Centre for Comput. Tech., Super Cisco Acad. Training Centre, Box Hill, Vic.
fDate :
Aug. 30 2006-Sept. 3 2006
Abstract :
This paper outlines the results of wireless development for a private healthcare provider in Western Australia. The case study is presented here discusses the software methodology used, problems encountered in developing the software application and then delivering it. Furthermore, the important issues associated with integration of new software with existing modules, human factors that impeded some aspects of development and issues associated with rigorous testing to ensure user requirements are also discussed
Keywords :
biomedical communication; health care; medical computing; microcomputer applications; notebook computers; radiocommunication; PDA; Western Australian health sector; hand held devices; human factors; private healthcare provider; wireless technology; Application software; Australia; Communication system security; Costs; Medical services; Personal digital assistants; Programming; Prototypes; Software engineering; Software prototyping;
Conference_Titel :
Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, 2006. EMBS '06. 28th Annual International Conference of the IEEE
Conference_Location :
New York, NY
Print_ISBN :
1-4244-0032-5
Electronic_ISBN :
1557-170X
DOI :
10.1109/IEMBS.2006.259989
