title: Use of hand held devices in a Western Australian health sector.
abstract: This paper outlines the results of wireless development for a private healthcare provider in Western Australia. The case study is presented here discusses the software methodology used, problems encountered in developing the software application and then delivering it. Furthermore, the important issues associated with integration of new software with existing modules, human factors that impeded some aspects of development and issues associated with rigorous testing to ensure user requirements are also discussed.
authors.affiliation: Centre for Computer Technology and Super Cisco Academy Training Centre (Asia-Pacific), Box Hill Institute of TAFE, Victoria, Australia. k.patel@bhtafe.edu.au
authors.forename: Keyurkumar J
authors.initials: KJ
authors.lastname: Patel
authors.forename: Raj
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Gururajan
mesh_terms: D003195:Computer Communication Networks; D003198:Computer Simulation; D003201:Computers; D034201:Computers, Handheld / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D020000:Decision Support Systems, Clinical; D006801:Humans; D008491:Medical Informatics Applications; D015203:Reproducibility of Results; D012984:Software; D012985:Software Design; D014584:User-Computer Interface; D014904:Western Australia