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Industries:

  • Healthcare

Offering Groups:

  • Tablet PCs

Solution Areas:

  • Wireless Solutions

Regions:

  • United States

Challenges:

  • Decrease operational costs and paperwork while improving in-room patient care

Benefits:

  • By allowing care givers to gather information more quickly and easily, the staff can focus on patient care and less on tedious administrative tasks.

PinnacleHealth

PinnacleHealth Takes Fujitsu Pen Tablets to Patients’ Bedside

PinnacleHealth

PinnacleHealth employs 4,200 full-time employees and provides community-based healthcare to more than one million people in Central Pennsylvania each year. The healthcare provider consists of Harrisburg Hospital, Polyclinic Hospital, Community General Osteopathic Hospital, and Seidle Hospital, as well as several family practices, urgent care centers, and other healthcare services. Its staff of nurses and professional healthcare professionals rely on Fujitsu’s pen tablets to decrease operational costs, improve patient care, reduce paperwork, and enhance communication and convenience.

One of the highest-ranking healthcare providers in the state, PinnacleHealth, has remained dedicated to delivering the best possible service to each of its patients.

To continue this tradition, PinnacleHealth enlisted the services of Datavision-Prologix, a value-added reseller of enterprise-wide wireless and mobile systems. Datavision-Prologix provided the Pennsylvania-based healthcare provider with a complete and functional mobile computing solution that would increase the efficiency of the staff and the overall quality of care for its patients. The solution consisted of more than 50 Fujitsu pen tablets manufactured by Fujitsu PC Corporation (FPC), Santa Clara, Calif. The Fujitsu pen tablets connect to Symbol Networks’ high data-rate wireless local area network via Symbol’s Spectrum 24® wireless PC Cards. The wireless network allows high-speed access to Siemens Medical Solutions Health Service Corporation’s INVISION mainframe-based software, as well as the Internet.

With Azron's help, MacNeal evaluated various mobile technologies. Laptops were found to be too cumbersome and lacked pen support; PDAs were easy to use and portable, but simply did not have the horsepower and functionality to run an enterprise application such as EMR. Windows-based pen tablet computers were the only hardware platform that enabled users to run data-intensive applications regardless of location and could be used while interacting with a patient.


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