Uses of PDA
" Sometimes information needs to be available within seconds if it is to be incorporated into busy clinical rounds and general practitioners (GPs) will spend no longer than 2 min looking for answers to questions that arose in consultations."
" On April 2009, NUH became the first hospital in the Asia Pacific region to implement an end-to-end or close-loop inpatient medication management system."
"Nurse will use her Personal Digital Assistant (PDA) to scan the barcode on the medication label and barcode on the patient’s wrist tag to capture the patient’s data and verify that it is the right patient. The PDA will confirm that the two sets of data received
If there is a discrepancy, the PDA will give off a beep alarm to alert the nurse.
Here are the Examples of the Uses of PDA:
