At the recently concluded Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS) 2008 meeting, GE Healthcare announced a collaboration with Intel and Motion Computing® to develop a mobile computing technology to eliminate the manual collection of patient vital signs and other data (presumably, stool guaiac results and such). In simpler terms, GE will try to integrate its Centricity Enterprise in-patient electronic medical record (EMR) software and GE Healthcare’s DINAMAP® patient monitoring devices with Motion C5 mobile clinical assistant, a device we have covered many times in the past. The technology is already being tested at the UCSF medical center. Here is a tip for younger folks: the DINAMAP is what any 50+ nurse will call an automatic blood pressure machine.
From the press statement:
Slated for deployment at the University of California San Francisco (UCSF) Medical Center, the goal is to provide nurses with a mobile, clinician-centric workflow that incorporates the Motion C5 mobile clinical assistant from Intel into vital sign collection using Centricity Enterprise in-patient electronic medical record (EMR) software and GE Healthcare’s DINAMAP® patient monitoring devices…
The solution replaces the use of Computer on Wheels (COWs) to access Centricity Enterprise electronic medical records (EMR) and is made possible by the creation of a new cable system and Java applet that allows vital sign collection on GE DINAMAP monitors to flow directly into Centricity Enterprise. GE engineers also designed a new user interface optimized for navigation and data input using the Motion C5 pen and stylus capabilities.
Using Mobile Computing’s formal clinician usability study methodology, UCSF piloted the mobile, clinician-centric workflow to fully utilize the potential of Centricity Enterprise EMR to help improve patient care. Initial benefits of the pilot have included enhanced patient interaction, reduced documentation delay and greater portability by the use of required clinical logins.
Press release: Nurses at UCSF now use Intel Corporation’s Motion C5 Mobile Clinical Assistant to Electronically Collect Patient Vital Signs and Enter Directly into Centricity Enterprise EMR…
Product page: DINAMAP…
Flashbacks: Motion C5: Mobile Clinical Assistant ; Hands-on with Motion Computing’s C5 medical Tablet PC; Mobile Clinical Assistant Platform from Intel
