In 2009, Matsushita Memorial Hospital in Moriguchi, Japan, made the switch to electronic health records (EHRs) from a pen and paper data entry method. The hospital eventually deployed Panasonic Toughbook H1 Health Mobile Clinical Assistants (MCAs). The change was initiated after Matsushita Memorial created a hospital-wide standard of one nurse per seven patients, in 2006. [...]
The largest state government agency in Tasmania, Australia, The Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS), providers of high-quality and people-focused healthcare, wanted to improve the method clinical pharmacists provided medication recommendations and therapy evaluations to patients at the point of care. The agency wanted an ergonomic and durable device to use in the infectious [...]
Pioneers Memorial Hospital, a 107-bed acute care facility in the Imperial Valley region of California, knows the importance of leveraging technology to promote quality healthcare. After unsuccessful trials with computers in patient rooms and computers-on-wheels (COWS), the nursing staff adopted the Toughbook H1 Health Mobile Clinical Assistant (MCA), which proved to be a dependable device, [...]
