Mobile Clinical assistants in the healthcare sector

Mobile clinical assistants are Tablet PCs/Mac tablet specifically designed for the healthcare sector. It’s a lightweight, portable slate Macintosh tablet/tablet that can be carried around the hospital by the doctors/ nurses. can be combined with software to enable bedside note taking, patient record retrieval, accurate treatment administration and faster response times.
The MCA is intended to replace more than the patient clip board. Just some of the applications for the MCA include:
Clinical Documentation
Practice Management
Electronic Health Records
Patient Education
The adoption of these devices has been gradual due to the fact that this is a massive shift for healthcare. Healthcare practices usually have long standing and well functioning paper based systems, and it takes time to develop a digital solution to supplement or replace these.
Now that there are a number of hardware options available, there are 3 key elements needed to enable the widespread adoption of the MCA:
Software to enable the shift
Staff training and adoption
Good hardware support
Much of this is already available. There are numerous software solutions across a wide range of healthcare specialties. We have to wait and watch.