Many countries have a compulsory health insurance system in place. Compulsory health insurers charge income related fees as opposed to private health insurers who charge risk related fees. Compulsory health insurance is based on solidarity among policy holders and can give them more privacy than any private health insurer can. As an example, we consider the German health insurance system, and w...

Many countries have a compulsory health insurance system in place. Compulsory health insurers charge income related fees as opposed to private health insurers who charge risk related fees. Compulsory health insurance is based on solidarity among policy holders and can give them more privacy than any private health insurer can. As an example, we consider the German health insurance system, and w...

In this paper, we describe a pilot study of the clinical use of a wireless network of personal digital assistants (PDAs). We describe how we are dealing with the concerns of the clinicians with respect to maintaining the security of patient records and the potential interference which wireless devices might cause critical medical systems. Beyond these technologydriven issues we also describe a ...

The more hand-held computing and nomadic systems become popular and significantly address the market, the more the design of applications based on such systems need new metaphors and interaction paradigms to fit user needs in new contexts of use. On the one hand emerging technologies like Personal Digital Assistants (PDA) offer new opportunities of use, on the other hand the applications that t...

Personal digital assistants (PDAs) have had a tremendous impact in the clinical setting, as they have in business and education environments. This report explores the health care application of PDAs, compares available PDA devices and software, and discusses PDA use for tracking patients, documenting clinical procedures, medical education, research, and accessing medical reference material. Thi...

There is hardly a more pervasive trend in the world today than communications. The momentum towards anytime, anywhere and any-type of communication is fueled by advances in radio frequency technology, near-exponential sales of laptop computers and personal digital assistants (PDAs), as well as new models of business that expect and rely on instantaneous information availability. The commonly ro...

The MOVE (AC 343) project is dedicated to combine voice and data based services in a single environment. Future personal communicators, i.e. Personal Digital Assistants (PDA) with wireless communication facilities, will allow harmonisation of voice and Internet services using a single access network such as UMTS. The MOVE middleware and its application programming interface (API) for this kind ...

Personal digital assistants (PDAs) or handheld computers have become more popular in the practice of medicine. These devices have implications for psychiatric practice, and this paper reviews various published articles describing their use. The literature demonstrates their use in document editing, patient tracking, accessing medical information and drug reference guides, prescription writing, ...