Used in a clinic setting, for example, the Physician Digital Dashboard allows doctors, nurses and clinicians to access consolidated personal, team, hospital, patient and external information and enables single-click access to analytical and collaborative tools. Managed care has imposed additional requirements for doctors on top of their primary job of caring for patients.
Doctors care about their patients' health, but they only have a few moments to focus on giving care.
The Physician Digital Dashboard addresses that by giving the doctor a consolidated view and eliminating the need to track down information or switch applications. On the Physician Digital Dashboard, it's all there. The Physician Digital Dashboard enables the creation of patient-based Web services, meaning that patients will be able to maintain an ongoing, online journal of medical issues and have the physician interact with it. In many cases those online journals will be maintained automatically. Glucose monitors, pacemakers and other medical devices, for example, will transmit their results directly to the Web by means of a high-speed Internet connection in the patient's home.