title: Documentation goes wireless: a look at mobile healthcare computing devices.
abstract: Patient care information often suffers as it travels from handwritten notes, dictation, or the memory of the clinician to the medical record. Hand-held devices equipped with mobile healthcare aplications can bring documentatin to the point of care. In this article, learn how mobile healthcare computing devices can decrease medical errors, increase efficiency, and improve the delivery of care.
authors.forename: C Peter
authors.initials: CP
authors.lastname: Waegemann
authors.forename: Claudia
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Tessier
mesh_terms: D003195:Computer Communication Networks; D016287:Computer Peripherals / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D004282:Documentation; D004496:Education, Continuing; D017598:Efficiency, Organizational; D006751:Hospital Information Systems; D006801:Humans; D019300:Medical Errors / Q000517:prevention & control; D016347:Medical Records Systems, Computerized / Q000295:instrumentation*; D019095:Point-of-Care Systems; D014481:United States