title: Implementation issues for mobile-wireless infrastructure and mobile health care computing devices for a hospital ward setting.
abstract: mWard is a project whose purpose is to enhance existing clinical and administrative decision support and to consider mobile computers, connected via wireless network, for bringing clinical information to the point of care. The mWard project allowed a limited number of users to test and evaluate a selected range of mobile-wireless infrastructure and mobile health care computing devices at the neuroscience ward at Southern Health's Monash Medical Centre, Victoria, Australia. Before the project commenced, the ward had two PC's which were used as terminals by all ward-based staff and numerous multi-disciplinary staff who visited the ward each day. The first stage of the research, outlined in this paper, evaluates a selected range of mobile-wireless infrastructure.
authors: Faculty of Health, Victoria University of Technology, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.
authors: Liza
authors: L
authors: Heslop
authors: Stephen
authors: S
authors: Weeding
authors: Linda
authors: L
authors: Dawson
authors: Julie
authors: J
authors: Fisher
authors: Andrew
authors: A
authors: Howard
mesh_terms: D034201:Computers, Handheld; D006751:Hospital Information Systems; D006757:Hospital Units; D006779:Hospitals, Public; D006801:Humans; D008122:Local Area Networks / Q000295:instrumentation*; D010865:Pilot Projects; D019095:Point-of-Care Systems; D014739:Victoria