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New Digital Tablets for Nurses � Practical Idea?

<meta content="OpenOffice.org 2.0 (Linux)" name="GENERATOR" /><meta content="20070225;17193800" name="CREATED" /><meta content="16010101;0" name="CHANGED" /> <style type="text/css"> </style>From WSJ: �Intel Corp. and Motion Computing Inc. are demonstrating the result of a joint effort to increase the productivity of nurses — a tablet-style personal computer designed for use in hospitals and clinics.�</p> <p style="margin-bottom: 0in">Perhaps this is a good productivity idea for those nurses in administrative roles. But for clinical nurses I have no idea when they’ll have the chance to handle both their patients, doctors and these tablets?</p> <p style="margin-bottom: 0in">Check out this assessment:</p> <p style="margin-bottom: 0in"><a href="http://kanban.blogspot.com/2007/02/intel-motion-develop-tablet-pc-for.html">http://kanban.blogspot.com/2007/02/intel-motion-develop-tablet-pc-for.html</a></p> <p style="margin-bottom: 0in">This PBS program made it clear that doctors were not that enthusiastic about these new electronic gadgets either:</p> <p style="margin-bottom: 0in"><a href="http://www.pbs.org/remakingamericanmedicine/index.html">http://www.pbs.org/remakingamericanmedicine/index.html</a></p> <p class="postmetadata alt"> <small> This entry was posted on Sunday, February 25th, 2007 at 6:22 pm and is filed under <a href="http://www.sagenths.us/sageblog/?cat=6" title="View all posts in Technology" rel="category tag">Technology</a>. You can follow any responses to this entry through the <a href='http://www.sagenths.us/sageblog/?feed=rss2&p=87'>RSS 2.0</a> feed. You can <a href="#respond">leave a response</a>, or <a href="http://www.sagenths.us/sageblog/wp-trackback.php?p=87" rel="trackback">trackback</a> from your own site. </small> </p> </div> </div>   <h3 id="respond">Leave a Reply</h3> <form action="http://www.sagenths.us/sageblog/wp-comments-post.php" method="post" id="commentform"> <p><input type="text" name="author" id="author" value="" size="22" tabindex="1" /> <label for="author"><small>Name (required)</small></label></p> <p><input type="text" name="email" id="email" value="" size="22" tabindex="2" /> <label for="email"><small>Mail (will not be published) (required)</small></label></p> <p><input type="text" name="url" id="url" value="" size="22" tabindex="3" /> <label for="url"><small>Website</small></label></p>  <p><textarea name="comment" id="comment" cols="100%" rows="10" tabindex="4"></textarea></p> <p><input name="submit" type="submit" id="submit" tabindex="5" value="Submit Comment" /> <input type="hidden" name="comment_post_ID" value="87" /> </p> </form> </div> <hr /> <div id="footer">  <p> Sagent Healthstaff Blog is proudly powered by <a href="http://wordpress.org/">WordPress</a> <br /><a href="feed:http://www.sagenths.us/sageblog/?feed=rss2">Entries (RSS)</a> and <a href="feed:http://www.sagenths.us/sageblog/?feed=comments-rss2">Comments (RSS)</a>.  </p> </div> </div>  </body> </html>