Prehospital Electronic Record with Use of Mobile Devices in the SAMU´s Ambulances in Ribeirão Preto-Brazil

Mobile devices are emerging as an important technology to be incorporated into computerized health systems in order to enhance and support the health services provided to the patient. With the popularization of mobile and wireless technologies, the motivation and encouragement for the use of these technologies increases in support of the reliability and quality of data. An usability evaluation was conducted to identify problems and deficiencies presented in the mobile application. The combination of these two contexts creates a new term called mobile health, which has motivated much discussion of how greater access to mobile phone technology can be leveraged to mitigate the numerous pressures faced in the medical care of health systems. This paper presents the development of an electronic record system for tablets with a focus on pre-hospital patient care.