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Children's Hospital Boston using Skyscape Mobile for immediate information access

E-Health Trend Watch, February 10, 2006

Clinicians at Children's Hospital Boston are replacing charts, index cards, and books with 6.5-oz handheld wireless computers. The computers carry patient information and mobile medical references from Skyscape, Inc. The handheld computers allow clinicians to access real-time information and up-to-date medical references while making their rounds at the hospital. The PDAs also give doctors access to the hospital's database of patient information, the Internet, and e-mail exchanges. They also manage the doctors' calendars, contact information, and to-do lists and feature a voice recorder and note taker. Based on positive feedback from the October 2004 pilot of 150 clinicians, the initiative was expanded in June 2005 to 1,400 clinicians.

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