Development of evidence-based medicine resources: bridging clinical research to medical practice

Author

Fontelo, Paul ; Ackerman, Michael ; Kim, George

Author_Institution

Lister Hill Nat. Center for Biomed. Commun., National Libr. of Medicine, Bethesda, MD, USA

fYear

2004

fDate

5-8 Jan. 2004

Abstract

We are developing resources for continuous and ubiquitous access to National Library of Medicine (NLM) information sources (MEDLINE, PubMed, and clinical trials) for the mobile physician and healthcare provider to support the practice of evidence based medicine. We established wireless networks (802.11b, infrared, Bluetooth) and created applications to search these databases. We also developed a content server with the main purpose of providing content to PDAs and handheld devices. We present our yearlong experience and evaluation of handheld devices, wireless access capabilities and analysis of log access data from servers. Interaction with users and online feedback is discussed.

Keywords

Bluetooth; Internet; health care; medical information systems; mobile computing; professional aspects; radio access networks; National Library of Medicine; PDA; clinical research; content server; evidence based medicine resource; handheld device; information source; log access data; online feedback; personal digital assistant; ubiquitous access; user interaction; wireless network access; Bluetooth; Clinical trials; Databases; Feedback; Handheld computers; Libraries; Medical services; Network servers; Personal digital assistants; Wireless networks;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

System Sciences, 2004. Proceedings of the 37th Annual Hawaii International Conference on

Print_ISBN

0-7695-2056-1

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/HICSS.2004.1265393

Filename

1265393