Clinic uses laptops with wireless networking
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The big clinic that my kids' pediatrician works in has laptops with wireless LAN posted throughout the clinic. As soon as the doctor completes the exam, he inputs the data directly. Not quite a PDA, but a pretty slick paperless setup nonetheless, and of course, it's all tied into the clinic's centralized databases and apps.
I assume they use laptops so that they can more easily be swapped out for maintenance, repairs, etc. And the wireless LAN simplifies a lot of networking issues, I'm sure.
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The big clinic that my kids' pediatrician works in has laptops with wireless LAN posted throughout the clinic. As soon as the doctor completes the exam, he inputs the data directly. Not quite a PDA, but a pretty slick paperless setup nonetheless, and of course, it's all tied into the clinic's centralized databases and apps.
I assume they use laptops so that they can more easily be swapped out for maintenance, repairs, etc. And the wireless LAN simplifies a lot of networking issues, I'm sure.