You Can Take It With You!Mobile Techologies in Health Care

Faculty Technology Days 2009University of Calgary07 May 2009

Your presenters

Rachel Chan rlchan@ucalgary.ca

Susan Powelson susan.powelson@ucalgary.ca

Health Sciences LibraryUniversity of Calgary

Doug Hall hall@ucalgary.ca

Faculty of MedicineUniversity of Calgary

In today’s session…

• What is considered mobile technology?

• What is available in the marketplace?

• What is coming in the future?

• What types of resources are available?

• What is happening in the FOM?

At the end of the session

• You will be more familiar with mobile technologies and their applications in health care

• You will want to implement them in your practice

What are we talking about when we talk about mobile technologies?

First Mobile Phone

The idea of a single portable device that can make phone calls, take pictures, record audio and video, store data, music, and movies, and interact with the Internet — all of it — has become so interwoven into our lifestyles that it is now surprising to learn that someone does not carry one.

• The New Media Consortium and the EDUCAUSE Learning Initiative. (2009). 2009 Horizon Report. Retrieved 03 May 2009, from http://wp.nmc.org/horizon2009/

Why use it?

• Information and applications in your pocket and readily available– Telephone, pager, calendar, calculator,

reference book, exam review, patient encounter logs, podcasts

• “improve quality of care, save patients’ lives, reduce health-care expenses”

• Baumgart, DC. (2005). Personal digital assistants in health care: experienced clinicians in the palm of your hand? Lancet (366), 1210-22

Examples of mobile technologies

• Personal digital assistants (PDAs)

• Smartphones

• Netbooks

• Laptops

Netbook/Smartphone Battle for PC Future

• We are setting up for a new class of converged product in a few short years as smartphones and netbooks probe for the natural middle ground between portability, price and functionality.

» Enderlie. Itbusiness edge http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/blogs/enderle/predictions-for-2009-netbooksmartphone-battle-for-pc-future/?cs=16718

Smart phone platforms

• Blackberry– Internet connectivity,

data plans– Lions share of the

market

• iPhone– Category buster– Seamless– Lots of memory, new 3 G

• Other options– Palm Pre – Windows Mobile 6– Pocket PC– Symbian

Comparison

Burdette. Practicing Medicine in a Technological Age: Using Smartphones in Clinical Practice Clinical Infectious Diseases 2008;47:117–122

Market share

Iphone grabs 30% of smartphone market. Fortune Dec 2, 2008. http://apple20.blogs.fortune.cnn.com/2008/12/02/iphone-grabs-30-of-us-smartphone-market/

“Canada Worse than 3rd World Countries when it comes to Mobile Data Access”thomaspurves.com 2007

• Rogers

• Bell

• Telus

Considerations

• How much– Do you want spend?– Voice time do you need?– Data will you be downloading,

transmitting?– Instant messaging do you do?

• Don’t forget the system access fee

The future of mobile technology

Faculty of Medicine - Education

• History of mobile technologies in Medical Education

• Adoption of mobile devices in Medical Education

• Family Medicine residency and clerkship

• Undergraduate medical education

• Plans and goals in Medical Education

Interesting Trends

• Mobile devices

• Netbooks

• Cloud Computing

• App Stores

• Mobile Technologies

• Medical Education

Applications

Types of applications

Health care resources• Books• Calculators• Current Awareness

Tools• Databases• Decision support tools• Dictionaries• Drug References• EBM Resources

Administrative resources• Calendar and scheduling• E-mail• Patient charting• Audiobooks• Word processing

Where do you find them?

• Free resources– Health Sciences Library PDA Resources

guide

Where do you find them?

• Fee-based resources– Skyscape– Epocrates – Lexi-Comp– UpToDate

Where do you find them?

• University subscription-based resources– Access Medicine– Access Pharmacy– First Consult– RefMobile– DynaMed

Summary

• Overview of mobile technologies

• What can you do with these devices

• How you can buy them

• What’s coming in the future

• What applications are available

Questions?