Sep 30, 2008
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Wednesday, January 10, 2007
More and More Physicians Getting Rounding Data via PDA’s
PDAs keeping Ill. doctors up to speed
When David Rogers needed quick results from a blood test for one of his
hospitalized patients in the early 1980s, he had to leave the person’s
bedside and either make a call to the hospital’s laboratory — a call
that often went unanswered — or show up at the lab.
Rogers, a pediatric surgeon at Southern Illinois University
School of Medicine, now whips out a personal digital assistant and he
uses a stylus to touch a few icons on a screen slightly larger than a
credit card.
