title: Secure remote access to a clinical data repository using a wireless personal digital assistant (PDA).
abstract: TCP/IP and World-Wide-Web (WWW) technology have become the universal standards for networking and delivery of information. Personal digital assistants (PDAs), cellular telephones, and alphanumeric pagers are rapidly converging on a single pocket device that will leverage wireless TCP/IP networks and WWW protocols and can be used to deliver clinical information and alerts anytime, anywhere. We describe a wireless interface to clinical information for physicians based on Palm Corp.'s Palm VII pocket computer, a wireless digital network, encrypted data transmission, secure web servers, and a clinical data repository (CDR).
authors.affiliation: Cedars-Sinai Medical Center and UCLA School of Medicine, Los Angeles, California, USA.
authors.forename: R G
authors.initials: RG
authors.lastname: Duncan
authors.forename: M M
authors.initials: MM
authors.lastname: Shabot
mesh_terms: D016494:Computer Security; D003219:Confidentiality; D006751:Hospital Information Systems; D020407:Internet; D008838:Microcomputers; D003629:Modems; D014584:User-Computer Interface