Pocket-Sized Echocardiography Devices: One Stop Shop Service?

Pocket-Sized Echocardiography Devices: One Stop Shop Service?

The introduction of portable, pocket-sized echocardiography devices in various healthcare systems has raised new questions with regards to their realistic use in clinical practice. Several studies have already attempted to provide information regarding their safety and diagnostic potential, the training required to operate them, as well as their direct comparison with standard echocardiography ...

Pocket ultrasound devices for focused echocardiography

Pocket ultrasound devices have recently been developed and may be particularly useful for emergency assessment. These devices can be stored in a pocket but share only some technical features with conventional echocardiographic machines. Two-dimensional imaging and color flow mode are available, with possible adjustments of global gain and depth, but Doppler features are lacking. These devices a...

Ultrasound: "one stop shop" in hepatology.

Feasibility and reliability of point-of-care pocket-sized echocardiography

AIMS To study the reliability and feasibility of point-of-care pocket-sized echocardiography (POCKET) at the bedside in patients admitted to a medical department at a non-university hospital. METHODS AND RESULTS One hundred and eight patients were randomized to bedside POCKET examination shortly after admission and later high-end echocardiography (HIGH) in the echo-lab. The POCKET examination...

From One-stop-shop to no-stop-shop: an E-Government stage Model

This paper responds to two observations regarding current government service delivery. First, despite reasonable efforts to improve the design of forms and to establish single points of contacts in the course of one-stop-shops, citizens still perceive forms as cumbersome. Second, citizens expect governments to act more proactively by initiating relevant government services themselves instead of...