Tablet PCs offer the healthcare community an opportunity to vastly improve a number of benefits for patients, providers, and insurers. Below is an overview of just three of the ways that tablets can help.

Improved patient safety – 5 rights

Using the pen and tablet along with the barcode scanners allows nurses to ensure the right patient receives the right drug, at the right time, in the right dosage, and by the right route. Existing systems combine a tablet PC with a med dispensing cart and a scanner that helps hospitals drastically reduce errors in med administration.

Electronic Medical Records (EMR)

Many software packages already exist helping physicians to practice delivering better care to their customers. These systems keep information about patients in a single electronic record that is accessible to physicians, nurses, medical technicians, and billing staff. Tablet PCs can increase the efficiency of these systems by allowing staff to immediately record medicines, medical history, allergies, and notes in their own handwriting which is translated into typed text and placed in the record.

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Forms, forms, forms

From the moment a patient walks into a facility to the moment they are discharged, healthcare is one piece of paperwork after another. Tablet PCs can’t eliminate the need for these forms, but by helping to automate the process allows the creation of a complete electronic health record. Ink enabled software that allows patients to fill in recent updates in their medical history and can be filled in while in the waiting room, thus shortening the time needed to update this information when they are seen by the nurse or doctor.

Customer success story

Harry Kuberg, MD 

Dr. Kuberg had used laptops for years, but he was looking for something more. He wanted to improve both his efficiency and the quality of his patient care.  According to Dr. Kuberg, he and his staff were searching for something different when they discovered Motion Computers.  They liked what they read and quickly made a call.

“When I talked with John Hill, he was very knowledgeable and very willing to work with me to get the right product to work with my applications,” says Dr. Kuberg.

Dr. Kuberg’s ordering experience was “excellent” and he received his tablet PCs within a week of placing the order.

“As a physician, I spend most of the time in the office, but I also travel to other places.  I was in the military for 21 years and I carried a laptop around with me, but in a lot of settings, I couldn’t read the screen.  Motion tablets adjust themselves, depending upon how much light there is, so for example, I can sit in a car (as a passenger, not a driver!) and even when the sun is shining in very brightly, I can read the tablet screen and I can get work done. 

Additionally, the tablet has the capability for me to write on it and to translate voice to text.  It can even read my handwriting and I’m a doctor, so my handwriting is pretty bad!” claims Dr. Kuberg.

Dr. Kuberg really appreciates the tablets’ portability – it travels with him to each patient examining room, on hospital visits, and to his home.  “A lot of things are much easier now,” he says.  “For example, prescriptions.  In the past, someone else had to read my notes and put them on a prescription pad.  Now I write the prescription right on the tablet and the computer automatically creates the prescription.  Nobody is going to misread the drug or the dosage – it’s better for the pharmacist and, of course, for the patient.”

He and his staff enter patient information directly onto the tablets, streamlining their work and removing the need to re-enter information.  Dr. Kuberg believes that the Motion tablet enables him to provide his patients with the highest quality of care.

 “I was initially leery of the investment in a tablet, but it has helped me to become much more productive.  My work is streamlined, and I’m able to provide better quality of care to my patients,” he says.