NEWS - Mobile Tech in Medical Libraries & Health Care: Highlights

This will be the first in a two part series where he highlight how the school is using the iPad for medical education. The first part of the series will focus on the experiences of a medical student using the iPad as part of the curriculum.

Five University of California medical schools plus Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles will study how wireless technologies and telephone care management can reduce the number of hospital readmissions for patients with heart failure, thanks to a $9.9 million Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality grant.

New technology initiative aims to revolutionize School of Medicine learning experience

With our new iMedEd Initiative, UC Irvine’s School of Medicine is reinventing the traditional medical school curriculum for the 21st century, becoming one of the first in the nation to build a completely digital, interactive learning environment for the entering class of 2014.

The Stanford University School of Medicine will be distributing iPads to its incoming class of 91 first-year medical school and master’s of medicine students

* Student readiness -- * The flexibility of iPad technology -- * Access to information/Information Literacy -- * “Going green”

The UCF College of Medicine is providing iPod touches to each of its first- and second-year medical students to give them instant, constantly updated information on drugs and diseases.

UCF College of Medicine is providing iPod touches to each of its first- and second-year medical students

The application of mobile computing and communication technology is rapidly expanding in the fields of health care and public health. This systematic review will summarise the evidence for the effectiveness of mobile technology interventions for improving health and health service outcomes (M-health) around the world.

The "Just-in-time Information" (JIT) librarian consultation service was designed to provide rapid information to answer primary care clinical questions during patient hours. Participants were trained to send clinical questions via a hand-held device.

This paper reports our implementation and evaluation of a wireless handheld learning environment used to
support a clinical nursing practicum course.

The increasing amount of new scientific information made available by computers and the Internet is demonstrated by the growing number of available health sciences journals. Medical students, nursing students, those in other health science disciplines, and clinicians need to make information more manageable and accessible, especially at the point of care.

We present an innovative approach to healthcare worker (HCW) training using mobile phones as a personal learning environment. Twenty physicians used individual Smartphones (Nokia N95 and iPhone)

Offical Company Website promoting the IPad device for the Medical Sciences.

Profiles of Schools and Organizations that use Apple.

Offical Company Website promoting Dell devices for the Medical Sciences.

Library guide for various mobile applications used by the Nursing program.