BACKGROUND The emergence of mobile computing could have an impact on how junior doctors learn. To exploit this opportunity it is essential to understand their information seeking process. AIM To explore junior doctors' experiences of using medical knowledge sources on handheld computers. METHOD Interviews with five Swedish junior doctors. A qualitative manifest content analysis of a focus g...

I this article (the first article1 was devoted to handheld computers with Palm operating systems) we will discuss how to choose a hand-held computer running Microsoft operating systems (Windows and Pocket PC 2003). As noted in Part 1,1 these devices are more expensive, bigger, and more powerful than Palm OS–based machines. In 2002 Windows-based devices comprised about 30% of the Canadian hand-h...

For its new acute care hospital, the University of California at Los Angeles is evaluating innovative technology involving high-resolution flat panel display devices configured as "network appliances" that can be wall mounted for use in the retrieval and display of medical images and data. Physicians and healthcare providers can log on with wireless handheld computers, which can serve as an ide...

Handheld devices have recently gained access to the Internet. The devices differ a lot from traditional desktop computers what comes to, for instance, browsing the Web. Several parties have defined specifications, which facilitates creating Web documents for handheld devices. In this paper, we have defined document profile, which combines many document formats targeted for handheld devices. The...

Wayne State University Medical School has implemented wireless handheld computers or PocketPCs (PPCs) into all four years of the undergraduate curriculum. A transition from a passive to an interactive learning environment in the classroom, as well as administrative solutions for monitoring patient encounter data by students in their clinical rotations was fostered by this educational technology...

We describe initial efforts at implementing a flexible, modular face identification framework in the context of a pervasive computing environment including handheld computers. Currently, the handheld is used for image capture, while all computation is performed on a back-end server, though other possibilities are discussed. Handheld face identification is difficult due to limitations in process...

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES Immunization is a rapidly evolving field, and teachers of family medicine are responsible for ensuring that they and their students are knowledgeable about the latest vaccine recommendations. METHODS A survey was mailed to 456 family medicine residency directors across the United States to obtain their evaluation of immunization resources developed by the Society of ...