Use of Hand Held Devices in a Western Australian Health Sector

Author

Patel, Keyurkumar J. ; Gururajan, Raj

Author_Institution

Centre for Comput. Tech., Super Cisco Acad. Training Centre, Box Hill, Vic.

fYear

2006

fDate

Aug. 30 2006-Sept. 3 2006

Firstpage

5185

Lastpage

5187

Abstract

This paper outlines the results of wireless development for a private healthcare provider in Western Australia. The case study is presented here discusses the software methodology used, problems encountered in developing the software application and then delivering it. Furthermore, the important issues associated with integration of new software with existing modules, human factors that impeded some aspects of development and issues associated with rigorous testing to ensure user requirements are also discussed

Keywords

biomedical communication; health care; medical computing; microcomputer applications; notebook computers; radiocommunication; PDA; Western Australian health sector; hand held devices; human factors; private healthcare provider; wireless technology; Application software; Australia; Communication system security; Costs; Medical services; Personal digital assistants; Programming; Prototypes; Software engineering; Software prototyping;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, 2006. EMBS '06. 28th Annual International Conference of the IEEE

Conference_Location

New York, NY

ISSN

1557-170X

Print_ISBN

1-4244-0032-5

Electronic_ISBN

1557-170X

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/IEMBS.2006.259989

Filename

4462972