Android-based medical devices in hospitals
Android-based medical devices in hospitals
The use of mobile applications is increasing in
the hospitals. Besides numerous advantages such as time- and location independent
view of examination results, documentation of therapy at the patient site,
point of care workflow and decision support, such smartphone- or tablet-based
mobile systems pose challenges to system manufacturers and hospital-IT
operators. In this paper we present our experiences on managing mobile,
Android-based medical devices in hospitals based on the GlucoTab®. GlucoTab® is
a client-server system using a Google Android-based tablet as a frontend device
for diabetes workflow and insulin decision support in hospitals. We analysed
the hospital IT-infrastructure for mobile devices in eight different hospitals
and based on recent published reports. Based on this analysis we developed
suggestions on how to handle typical administrative issues like domain integration,
software inventory and distribution or user management. Depending on the
integration prerequisites of hospitals we finally provided five different
integration scenarios for the GlucoTab® system.
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