A professor forced into retirement by a severe disability finds his personal care assistants essential. But he may not be able to afford their help much longer—and he faces going on Medicaid and possibly becoming institutionalized. Chronic Care Disability Multiple Sclerosis Personal Care Assistant Long-Term Care It’s 9:28 p.m. Serge punches the code into the digital lock and enters my front doo...

Clinical information systems for Ambulatory Care are predominantly paper-based. This paper represents a preliminary overview (work-in-progress) of the electronic Point of Care (ePOC) Personal Digital Assistant Projecta mobile e-Health research and development project and the intrinsic considerations which arise when designing alternative electronic patient data management systems tailored to Am...

AIM This paper reports a study exploring nurses' perceptions of adopting an information system using handheld computers (personal digital assistants) in their daily practice. BACKGROUND Handheld computers have recently been used in nursing information systems for patient care, but few studies have explored their impact on users. By understanding clinicians' experiences of using this technolog...

Health care professionals need information delivery tools for accessing information at the point of patient care. Personal digital assistants (PDAs), or hand-held devices demonstrate great promise as point of care information devices. An earlier study [The Constellation Project: experience and evaluation of personal digital assistants in the clinical environment, in: Proceedings of the 19th Ann...

PURPOSE To describe the prevalence and patterns of use of personal digital assistants (PDAs) by nurse practitioner (NP) students and faculty, examine relationships between patterns of use of PDAs and demographic characteristics of NP students and faculty, and describe patterns of use of PDAs that support evidence-based practice (clinical scholarship). DATA SOURCES Responses to a 20-item quest...

Today is the era of intelligent personal assistants. All the major tech giants have introduced personal assistants as the front end of their services, including Apple’s Siri, Microsoft’s Cortana, Facebook’s M, and Amazon’s Alexa. Several of these companies have also released bot toolkits so that other smaller companies can join the fray. However, while the quality of conversational interactions...

Background: Instructors play an instrumental role in education, particularly in medical sciences where they are regarded as the most influential factor in the process of education. The present study was carried out with the aim of demonstrating assistants’ views about professors’ teaching in Mashhad School of Medicine. Methods: The current study is a qualitative analysis in which the written vi...