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Assessment Tools – PDA: Emerging Technologies and Ergonomics Applications

Assessment Tools – PDA: Emerging Technologies and Ergonomics Applications. COL Mary Lopez 12 August 2003. The Voice from the Field. Limited Resources Limited Time Limited Expertise Tool Selection Technical Knowledge Overextension. Mobile Information Technologies.

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Assessment Tools – PDA: Emerging Technologies and Ergonomics Applications

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  1. Assessment Tools – PDA:Emerging Technologies and Ergonomics Applications COL Mary Lopez 12 August 2003

  2. The Voice from the Field • Limited Resources • Limited Time • Limited Expertise • Tool Selection • Technical Knowledge • Overextension

  3. Mobile Information Technologies • Advanced Mobile Portal Technology • Telemedicine Issue Drivers: • Access to Information • Patient Records – History, Allergies, Lab, Pharmacy • Clinical Practice Guidelines • Data Accuracy • Reduce Errors • Patient Access – Home Healthcare, At-Risk Populations (Cardiac, Diabetes Monitoring) • Technology Acceptance • 55% of physicians by 2005

  4. Military Applications • Mission Variety: Humanitarian Warfighting • Battlefield Digitization System • “Commanders Digital Assistant” • GPS and Communications Components • Force XXI Central Digitization - Successes • Averted Friendly Fire • Battlefield Questions (80%) • Where are you? • Where are my leaders? • What do my leaders want me to do?

  5. Military Applications • Mission Directions, maps, real-time GPS coordinates • Scenario: Each soldier can: • Mark location changes • Send reports of ground observations or enemy strength • Send preformatted messages (“Call for fire”; “MEDEVAC”)

  6. Military Applications • Lighter weight (high energy battery – reduced weight ½ and doubled useful battery life) • Projection: Field testing at Fort Bragg – could go Army-wide in a few months. • “If you have devices that take away a lot of the confusion, they could save lives.”

  7. Military Medical Applications • Deployed Environments • Limited expertise • Isolation • Efficient and standardized records • Forward medical care • Communications

  8. Ergonomics Applications • Tele-Ergonomics • Office Assessment Example • Excel Spreadsheet Based Tools • Demonstration • General Assessment • Patient Handling Tool

  9. VDT Assessments - Another ‘Voice from the Field’ • Increasing demand for office assessments • Time required • Tool research • Tool selection • Workstation assessment • Analysis • Reporting

  10. VDT Self-Assessment Program • Local intra-net based program • Basis: AF Level 1 Guides • Key features: • Self assessment (privacy, control) • Contributing factors • Produces tailored analysis report for the worker • Provides other reference documents • SOH visibility and reporting - Options

  11. VDT Self-Assessment Program • Deployment Schedule • Final Beta Testing • Volunteers • Early Fall - Program available for download or e-mail • Demonstration

  12. Questions??

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