title: Laptops and health care: going mobile.
abstract: Kaiser Permanente's Northwest Region is using laptop computers for patient charting in its home care unit.
  
  
  RESULTS
  improved quality and continuity of care, greater productivity, and reduced costs.
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Peterson
mesh_terms: D003195:Computer Communication Networks; D017598:Efficiency, Organizational; D006279:Health Maintenance Organizations / Q000458:organization & administration*; D006699:Home Care Services / Q000458:organization & administration*; D016347:Medical Records Systems, Computerized; D015205:Northwestern United States; D019095:Point-of-Care Systems; D011787:Quality of Health Care