PDAs and Hospital Libraries

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PDAs and Hospital Libraries

• How we can become leaders in support of
• Public Displays of Affection

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PDAs and Hospital Libraries

• Overcoming Barriers to
• Public Displays of Affection

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PDAs and Hospital Libraries

• Become Leaders
• Overcome Barriers

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PDAs and ER

• First episode of NBC ER featured physicians
  using PDAs in the halls of the hospital
• Dr. Kerry Weaver head of the ER.

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PDAs and Hospital Libraries

• Become Leaders
• Get involved now
• Pull providers
• Hospitals will follow
• Create web pages
• Technology conference at WakeAHEC

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PDA conference at WAKE AHEC

• Dr. Greenburg
• comments from attendees Keep trying to keep us
  up to date or at least pull us forward

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PDA conference at WAKE AHEC

• 100 attendance
• Made money to buy IR ports for library.
• Waiting list
• Beverly Richardson teaching an introduction class
  on the Palm VIIx.

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PDA conference at WAKE AHEC

• Very popular download stations.
• DR. Goff I wondered why I needed a palm and came
  away thinking I gotta have one.

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PDAs and Hospital Libraries

• Barriers to PDAs
• No specific HIPPA guidelines
• No policy in place in most hospitals
• Justification for purchase.
• Some hospitals PDAs not allowed.

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PDAs and Hospital Libraries

• What can we do in hospital libraries to lead the
  way?