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You Can Take It With You! Mobile Techologies in Health Care Faculty Technology Days 2009 University of Calgary 07 May 2009. Your presenters. Rachel Chan rlchan@ucalgary.ca Susan Powelson susan.powelson@ucalgary.ca Health Sciences Library University of Calgary Doug Hall

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  1. You Can Take It With You!Mobile Techologies in Health CareFaculty Technology Days 2009University of Calgary07 May 2009

  2. Your presenters Rachel Chan rlchan@ucalgary.ca Susan Powelson susan.powelson@ucalgary.ca Health Sciences Library University of Calgary Doug Hall hall@ucalgary.ca Faculty of Medicine University of Calgary

  3. In today’s session… • What is considered mobile technology? • What is available in the marketplace? • What is coming in the future? • What types of resources are available? • What is happening in the FOM?

  4. At the end of the session • You will be more familiar with mobile technologies and their applications in health care • You will want to implement them in your practice

  5. What are we talking about when we talk about mobile technologies?

  6. First Mobile Phone

  7. The idea of a single portable device that can make phone calls, take pictures, record audio and video, store data, music, and movies, and interact with the Internet — all of it — has become so interwoven into our lifestyles that it is now surprising to learn that someone does not carry one. • The New Media Consortiumand the EDUCAUSE Learning Initiative. (2009). 2009 Horizon Report. Retrieved 03 May 2009, from http://wp.nmc.org/horizon2009/

  8. Why use it? • Information and applications in your pocket and readily available • Telephone, pager, calendar, calculator, reference book, exam review, patient encounter logs, podcasts • “improve quality of care, save patients’ lives, reduce health-care expenses” • Baumgart, DC. (2005). Personal digital assistants in health care: experienced clinicians in the palm of your hand? Lancet (366), 1210-22

  9. Examples of mobile technologies • Personal digital assistants (PDAs) • Smartphones • Netbooks • Laptops

  10. Netbook/Smartphone Battle for PC Future • We are setting up for a new class of converged product in a few short years as smartphones and netbooks probe for the natural middle ground between portability, price and functionality. • Enderlie. Itbusiness edge http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/blogs/enderle/predictions-for-2009-netbooksmartphone-battle-for-pc-future/?cs=16718

  11. Blackberry Internet connectivity, data plans Lions share of the market iPhone Category buster Seamless Lots of memory, new 3 G Other options Palm Pre Windows Mobile 6 Pocket PC Symbian Smart phone platforms

  12. Comparison Burdette. Practicing Medicine in a Technological Age: Using Smartphones in Clinical Practice Clinical Infectious Diseases 2008;47:117–122

  13. Market share Iphone grabs 30% of smartphone market. Fortune Dec 2, 2008. http://apple20.blogs.fortune.cnn.com/2008/12/02/iphone-grabs-30-of-us-smartphone-market/

  14. “Canada Worse than 3rd World Countries when it comes to Mobile Data Access”thomaspurves.com 2007 • Rogers • Bell • Telus

  15. Considerations • How much • Do you want spend? • Voice time do you need? • Data will you be downloading, transmitting? • Instant messaging do you do? • Don’t forget the system access fee

  16. The future of mobile technology

  17. Faculty of Medicine - Education History of mobile technologies in Medical Education Adoption of mobile devices in Medical Education Family Medicine residency and clerkship Undergraduate medical education Plans and goals in Medical Education

  18. Interesting Trends Mobile devices Netbooks Cloud Computing App Stores Mobile Technologies Medical Education

  19. Applications

  20. Health care resources Books Calculators Current Awareness Tools Databases Decision support tools Dictionaries Drug References EBM Resources Types of applications • Administrative resources • Calendar and scheduling • E-mail • Patient charting • Audiobooks • Word processing

  21. Where do you find them? • Free resources • Health Sciences Library PDA Resources guide

  22. Where do you find them? • Fee-based resources • Skyscape • Epocrates • Lexi-Comp • UpToDate

  23. Where do you find them? • University subscription-based resources • Access Medicine • Access Pharmacy • First Consult • RefMobile • DynaMed

  24. Summary • Overview of mobile technologies • What can you do with these devices • How you can buy them • What’s coming in the future • What applications are available

  25. Questions?

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