When he joined CCHS four years ago as technology director for the Western Region, Chris Clancy quickly moved the region to Compaq as the standard for PCs and servers. As we proceeded, we realized we had a number of PCs that were starting to choke. We put so much bandwidth into the WAN that the stations couldn't keep up with what was coming at them. It came through all of our test scenarios with flying colors. Today, nurses use iPAQ Desktop PCs with host-based applications to look at patient information from nursing stations throughout the hospitals.
Doctors access patient information and other resources from the doctors' lounge or their offices.
Even live video shots inside a patient's heart can now be filed with additional information on that patient. Currently, a pilot project is underway to develop iPAQ-based information kiosks for patients. Our users like the speed with which they can access and store information. They also like the iPAQ because it doesn't occupy much space in places like the nursing stations, and in the emergency room. Service should be easy, too.