Docs use PDAs mostly for admin.(Physician Practices)(personal digital assistants)(Brief Article)

From: Health Management Technology | Date: May 1, 2005 | Copyright information

Although more than half (57 percent) of U.S. physicians surveyed say they regularly use a personal digital assistant (PDA) or hand-held computer during a typical workweek, most does use the devices for administrative than clinical tasks. According to the Chicago-based American Medical Association and the Cambridge, Mass-based Forrester Research 2005 Physicians and Technology Study, 87 percent of the does surveyed say they use PDAs to maintain their address books, and 80 percent use...

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