background handheld computers play an increasing role in improving healthcare services by making the information available at the point of care. there is not enough evidence regarding the usage of handheld computers by healthcare professionals in developing countries. objectives this study investigated the benefits and barriers of using handheld computers in clinical practice in a developing co...

BACKGROUND Handheld computers and mobile devices provide instant access to vast amounts and types of useful information for health care professionals. Their reduced size and increased processing speed has led to rapid adoption in health care. Thus, it is important to identify whether handheld computers are actually effective in clinical practice. OBJECTIVE A scoping review of systematic revie...

OBJECTIVE The purpose of the study was to evaluate the uses of handheld computers (also called personal digital assistants, or PDAs) in family practice residency programs in the United States. STUDY DESIGN In November 2000, the authors mailed a questionnaire to the program directors of all American Academy of Family Physicians (AAFP) and American College of Osteopathic Family Practice (ACOFP)...

An emerging research direction in the field of pervasive computing is to voice-enable applications on handheld computers. Map-based applications can benefit the most from multimodal interfaces based on speech and pen input and graphics and speech output. However, implementing automatic speech recognition and speech synthesis on handheld computers is constrained by the relatively low computation...