Design and natural science research on information technology
Decision Support Systems - Special issue on WITS '92
Little guys make a big splash: PDA projects at Virginia Commonwealth University
SIGUCCS '01 Proceedings of the 29th annual ACM SIGUCCS conference on User services
PDA's, barcodes and video-films for continuous learning at an intensive care unit
Proceedings of the second Nordic conference on Human-computer interaction
802.11 Wireless Networks: The Definitive Guide
802.11 Wireless Networks: The Definitive Guide
Design science in information systems research
MIS Quarterly
Towards a framework for mobile information environments: a hospital-based example
Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Advances in Mobile Computing and Multimedia
Asymmetric synchronous collaboration within distributed teams
EPCE'07 Proceedings of the 7th international conference on Engineering psychology and cognitive ergonomics
Adoption of mobile technology in a problem-based learning approach to medical education
International Journal of Mobile Learning and Organisation
Mobile Technology Use in Medical Education
Journal of Medical Systems
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This paper discusses the introduction of a wireless network of personal digital assistants into a specialist unit of a hospital in Edinburgh. All of the technology has been used ‘off-the-shelf’ and ‘out-of-the-box’. While we are able to report that the heterogeneous elements of this implementation have been integrated, work well together and that the users of the system are happy with it, the hospital context itself introduced a number of significant practical issues. Hospitals are understandably very concerned about the security and confidentiality of patient records and with the potential for mutual interference between the wireless PDAs and other sensitive, wireless telemetric medical systems. Having dealt with these ultimately tractable infrastructural issues we also note the importance of identifying the ‘killer application’ of the PDAs in achieving a critical mass of end users, and indicate areas for further work.