The communication of urgent exam results from radiology to the emergency department (ED) can be improved with the use of mobile computing devices such as personal digital assistants (PDAs), according to the experience of the University of California, San Francisco.
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Mobile computing devices can help emergency departments improve their communication of urgent imaging results, according to researchers from the University of California, San Francisco.
The UCSF team hypothesized that personal digital assistants, or PDAs, might be able to speed up a cumbersome process that involved faxing wet-read findings to the ED. And they were right, according to Wyatt Tellis, who presented the institution's experience at the annual meeting of the Society for Computer Applications in Radiology.
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