No programming required. Mobile PCs can help physicians work more efficiently, especially when the application is designed to fit the practice.
The Jacobson Medical Group San Antonio


OBJECTIVE
Jacobson Medical Group (JMG) needed a way to effectively and efficiently coordinate referral information between their hospitalist physicians and specialists.


METHODS
JMG decided to replace paper-based binders with something more convenient and easily updated. The organization chose to implement a mobile solution that would provide its physicians with convenient access to a database of information via a hand-held computer.


RESULTS
The hand-held solution provides physicians with full demographic profiles of primary care givers for each area where the group operates. The database includes multiple profiles based on different healthcare plans, along with details about preferred and authorized specialists.


CONCLUSIONS
JMG adopted a user-friendly solution that the hospitalists and specialists would embrace and actually use.
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D001292:Attitude to Computers; D016287:Computer Peripherals; D017598:Efficiency, Organizational; D006123:Group Practice / Q000458:organization & administration*; D018578:Hospital-Physician Relations; D020445:Hospitalists / Q000458:organization & administration*; D006801:Humans; D007256:Information Systems; D012017:Referral and Consultation / Q000458:organization & administration*; D013781:Texas