In the fast moving world of a hospital, the old days of taking out a pen and scribbling down data upon a patientÃÂÃÂs charts that no one could read except the doctor that wrote it are gone. In todayÃÂÃÂs hospitals the use of hand held devices have replaced the clipboards. Now, doctors and nurses can up-date a patientÃÂÃÂs chart, while they enter the data, the pharmacy is filling the prescriptions and a note is sent to the nurse that there is a change to the patientÃÂÃÂs data. Medications are dispensed using computer aided equipment all in the name of providing better care to the patient while saving money for the hospital. Our goal is to find suitable server-side software that is required to be installed on the hospitalÃÂÃÂs servers to support access by the hospital doctors to patientsÃÂÃÂ information using their cellular phones or PDAs while they are not in the hospital.
As described above this technology allows advanced and more rapid care by doctors for their patients in the hospital environment. Using their cell phones and PDAÃÂÃÂs the care is more advanced and rapid because messages can be received faster as well as urgent matters.
Since patientÃÂÃÂs information is private and protected by U.S. Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA). How does the hospital ensure that the data is kept private? With the use of both server and client side software that protects the patientÃÂÃÂs data. We will look at some of the software that hospitals may employ and the applications they provide. The following is a comparison of our research and our decision of what would be the optimum choice for the hospitals server side software needs.
Black BerryOne of the more widely known hand held devices is the Black Berry. In this we knew that itÃÂÃÂs...