title: Approach to mobile information and communication for health care.
abstract: Evidence suggests that inadequate access to information and ineffective communication are proximal causes of errors and other adverse events in-patient care. Within the context of reducing these proximal causes of errors, we explore the use of novel information-based approaches to improve information access and communication in health care settings. This paper describes the approaches for and the design of extensions to a clinical information system used to improve information access and communication at the point of care using information-based handheld wireless applications. These extensions include clinical and information resources, event monitoring, and a virtual whiteboard (VWB).
authors.affiliation: Department of Biomedical Informatics, Columbia University, New York, NY 10032, USA. mendonca@dbmi.columbia.edu
authors.forename: Eneida A
authors.initials: EA
authors.lastname: Mendonça
authors.forename: Elizabeth S
authors.initials: ES
authors.lastname: Chen
authors.forename: Peter D
authors.initials: PD
authors.lastname: Stetson
authors.forename: Lawrence K
authors.initials: LK
authors.lastname: McKnight
authors.forename: Jianbo
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Lei
authors.forename: James J
authors.initials: JJ
authors.lastname: Cimino
mesh_terms: D034201:Computers, Handheld; D007256:Information Systems; D019300:Medical Errors; D005791:Patient Care / Q000592:standards*; D011787:Quality of Health Care; D012449:Safety