WSJ:Taking Control - A New Physician`s Assistant medicalpocketpc.com 10-28-2005

Handheld devices are becoming critical tools for some doctors and nurses

UCLA Develops Mobile Software mobilehealthdata.com 10-26-2005

Researchers at the UCLA Division of Neurosurgery Brain Monitoring and Modeling Lab have developed software to mobilize clinical applications. The Global Care Quest system can extend clinical software to Tablet PCs, smart phones or PDAs running the Palm OS or Windows Mobile operating systems.

UCLA Medical Center is testing the software to offer clinicians mobile access to its homegrown electronic medical records system and bedside charting system from CliniComp International, San Diego. The system also is designed to offer mobile access to data from ICU monitors and imaging studies. Clinicians use mobile hardware over a Wi-Fi network to access the data at the medical center and over a mobile phone network when they are away.

The system`s developers have formed a company, Global Care Quest Inc., to fund and market the software. The developers as well as Lexington Ventures LLC, Beverly Hills, Calif., have financed the company.

UCLA Medical Center Shreds Hospital Paper Chase With Mobile, Wireless Access medicalpocketpc.com 10-21-2005

UCLA Medical Center is piloting a mobile, wireless patient information retrieval system that gives physicians instant access from throughout the hospital and around the world to real‑time patient data via wireless Personal Digital Assistants (PDAs) and cellular smart phones. The Global Care Quest system, or GCQ, is intended to improve access to patient data, save health care workers time, trim the cost of care and tighten patient safety standards.

At UCLA, GCQ integrates with digital medical records, bedside charting and laboratory results, to create the most comprehensive digital medical data storage and retrieval system of its kind. This state-of-the-art software solution advances existing technology by offering — for the first time — PDA and cellular smart phone access to real-time data from bedside ICU monitors, as well as X-ray and CT/MRI scan imaging studies. Physicians can access medical data throughout the medical center via the hospital`s wireless network (Wi-Fi or 802.11b), and remotely, outside the hospital, through high-speed cellular network connections (1xRTT, EV‑DO, EDGE).

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