Sioux Falls, S.D.-based Good Samaritan Society has purchased 500 PDAs from palmOne, Inc. The long-term care organization plans to use the hand-helds to help streamline patient information management, enhance care quality and improve communication among its staff members.
Caregivers at the not-for-profit organization's 250 locations will use the Tungsten E hand-helds to more accurately track and review resident activities, schedules and other data at the point of care. At the end of their shift, caregivers will download such data into Good Samaritan's proprietary resident tracking application via a hot synch to the organization's network servers.
The long-term care organization plans to offer more PDAs to nearly 1,500 of its nurses this fall. The nurses will use the hand-helds to review resident care plans and document clinical information, such as blood pressure, pulse, weight and dietary intake at the point of care.
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