Variety Care had previously been using commercial grade tablets that were not specifically designed for the demands of a healthcare environment; these tablets experienced breaks and failures which resulted in clinician downtime. Manager of Information Systems, Carl Flippin wanted to enhance the facility’s workflow with mobile devices that were durable, portable, lightweight, reliable and had wireless capabilities.

Flippin met with DataSource Mobility, a value added IT reseller with an expertise is mobile technology, to discuss the criteria for Variety Care’s next mobile computing solution. After research and evaluation, the Panasonic Toughbook T8 computers proved to be the ultimate solution.

Read more »

You may be surprised to know that eighty-five percent of Healthcare IT professionals are either in the middle of an EHR project or plan to begin execution within the next 18 months. That’s according to a survey by Embarcadero Technologies, a San Francisco-based provider of database tools and developer software. The survey also stated that [...]

Read more »

The Hospital Comarcal de Inca employs about 760 medical professionals, and meets the healthcare needs of approximately 114,000 people on the Spanish island of Majorca.  In July of 2009, the hospital accessed the ability of mobile healthcare technology to improve clinician workflow and offer access to data at the point-of-care.  At the heart of this [...]

Read more »

Even in this digital age, it is not uncommon for home health providers to still depend on pen and paper to document vital patient data. The risk of losing critical information is high and can lead to harmful errors. Outdated forms of documenting home care visits not only have the potential of leading to mistakes, [...]

Read more »

All too often, Panasonic is approached by healthcare organizations that view their electronic medical record (EMR) implementation as a series of linear steps. First, they choose a software package; then they reflect on networking and finally they consider hardware for their end users – maybe looking into training after the deployment. More often than not, [...]

Read more »