Appropriate security safeguards are in place. With the shift from treatment to prevention, a good deal of effort has gone into empowering consumers with appropriate information. PDAs provide nutritional and treatment advice as well as individual health monitoring functions. Clinical practice relies almost exclusively on an electronic patient record composed of digital images, sound recordings, related laboratory findings, including slide and motion images where appropriate. The data is available, seamlessly, and integrates all patient visits to the University and other healthcare providers.
Clinicians can either view the record or listen to it.
Sophisticated clinical decision support tools enhance the effectiveness of Medical Center care by detecting patterns in data to provide early notice of potential problems and opportunities. Outcomes research as well as entry of patients into clinical trials is facilitated by automatic transfer of relevant records. Researchers and clinical staff rely upon a variety of intelligent software tools for data collection and analysis. Knowledge of esoteric statistical tests have been replaced by visual modeling programs which quickly analyze patterns in the data and present the findings in a variety of graphical formats. PDAs are highly individualized to meet the owners' preferences and needs.