Though more than half of U.S. physicians regularly use PDAs, most rely on their hand-helds for administrative tasks rather than accessing clinical data, according to a Forrester Research study.
The study found that 57% of surveyed physicians regularly use PDAs during the workday. Eighty percent of survey respondents who use PDAs track their appointments via the devices, and 87% use them to store contact information. The survey also found that 65% of physician PDA users check drug references via hand-helds.
However, only 7% of physician PDA users said they use hand-helds to order medications; 6% use them to access patient records; and 5% of respondents use PDAs to view lab results.
Further, of the physicians surveyed whose practices have deployed an electronic medical records system, only a third are using PDA to chart directly into the application. However, 60% of the physicians surveyed whose practices have implemented an electronic prescription system use PDAs to enter their orders.
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