Clinicians in Unity Health System's Health Care for the Homeless program will use PDAs to access a proprietary electronic medical records system while treating patients in the field. The Rochester, N.Y.-based provider has hired the PDA School of Fairport, N.Y., to design and maintain its records system and train the 20 clinicians in the program to access it via PDAs.
The Health Care for the Homeless program offers care to homeless people, or those at risk for homelessness, from mobile medical units at about 10 sites across the Rochester, N.Y., area. Such care includes physical, mental and dental health assessment, treatment, and referrals. The program serves about 3,500 patients each year.
Unity Health System chose a PDA-based records system to help its homeless program providers better collect, access and store data while in the field. The program's clinicians will use Tungsten T3 PDAs from Milpitas, Calif.-based palmOne Inc. to collect patient data as well as store and print medical forms. The new records system also will be designed to enable the caregivers to electronically send a copy of the data to Unity Health System.
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