Nurses and doctors are really finding out how much mobility means and how convenient it is rather than rolling a note book around on wheels....(medical terminology: computers on wheels aka...COWS)...BD
Dec. 10 (Bloomberg) -- Andrea Sargent wants help from the computer industry to banish ``COWs'' from the transplant ward where she works.
Sargent, a San Francisco nurse, and her colleagues across the country say they need wireless, Web-enabled computers (tablets) styled like the clipboards they traditionally carry to keep patient records. They're seeking to replace computers on wheels, called COWs because they are clumsy and hard to move around.
``There is definitely a need for this,'' says John Halamka, chief information officer at Harvard Medical School and Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston. ``Health care in the U.S. is about 10 years behind industry. Good information technology really does help medicine.''
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