Graduate educationHand-held computer operating system program for collection of resident experience data1
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Program description
Our data entry program begins with resident collection of patient encounter information. We chose the Palm Operating System because many of our residents were already using those devices as personal organizers. The equipment necessary to run our entire system consists of individual hand-held PCs with the Palm Operating System, a central personal or networked computer with a Windows Operating System (Microsoft Corporation, Redmond, WA), and three software programs.
Procedure Log, a commercially
Comment
In 1997, Duff and Synder described their experience with a computer-based program for recording RRC statistics.2 They recognized that well-motivated residents were best qualified to characterize their patient experiences. Previous concerns with hand-held computer devices have been cost, physical security of the instruments, and database security. Several security measures are inherent in the system, eg, each resident’s device is password protected and patients are only identified by the first
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