You Can Take It With You!Mobile Techologies in Health Care
Faculty Technology Days 2009University of Calgary07 May 2009
Your presenters
Rachel Chan [email protected]
Susan Powelson [email protected]
Health Sciences LibraryUniversity of Calgary
Doug Hall [email protected]
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?
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