Role of Wireless Handheld Technology by Nurses in Healthcare Environment

One of the emerging technologies is wireless handheld technology and implication of these devices is enormous for business community, healthcare domain is not an exception to this phenomena. This research paper provides some useful finding about the use of PDA’s in the healthcare environment through actual usage of PDA in the healthcare ward. A qualitative and quantitative approach was adopted to explore these phenomena due to the exploratory nature of the research. Finding of this study identified some of the motivators and issues associated with the wireless handheld technology in healthcare environment. Furthermore it was also found that these wireless handheld devices could help to improve the quality of care through better decision making processes. This study is limited to only one sate of Australian and further research is needed to see the implication of the finding to wider community and other domains in the Australian environment.