PDA Prototype for Medical Application

The use of PDA technology for medical applications is opening a new field to research in recent years. This technology appears to be very useful for collecting data and data entry at point of care providing tools to enter data in an efficiency and consistent way to nurses and physicians. This paper provides a short description of previous PDA applications, then provide a description of the prototype development for viewing the patient record, order entry and physician documentat ion and nurse documentation. After that, the usability user test and the results are described. Last section is dedicated for future work. 1