Aether Provides Mobile Medicine to Medical School

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NEWS FLASH 2000 - 30 (August 2000)
(Updated on August 30, 2000)

PRODUCTS, SERVICES & APPLICATIONS

Aether Provides Mobile Medicine to Medical School

Aether Systems, Inc. announced that Wake Forest University (WFU) School of Medicine has successfully deployed its ScoutWare™ solution in order to incorporate mobile computing into its medical training curriculum.

The medical school is using Aether’s ScoutWare synchronization and data management software to enable third-year medical students to record patient and clinical training data via Palm handhelds.

Aether helped develop a mobile application that constantly tracks students’ learning activities, including medical procedures and patient progress. While at the hospital or clinic, students would record important patient data using Palm handheld devices; at the end of their shift, they would then transmit the day’s information to the Medical School’s centralized database, by using the cradles located throughout the Medical Center.

The ScoutWare application for WFU also includes the following features:

Built-in security measures that ensure compliance with proposed HIPAA regulations and guaranteed privacy of information by restricting access to a student’s device to only that individual student.
The capability for students to individually load software that is relevant to their training.
Device management capabilities that enable program administrators to update and add applications remotely via wireline synchronization.

For more information: www.aethersystems.com/press/pr082400.htm

Mobileinfo Comments and Advisory: This is a good use of handhelds in healthcare where there is significant payback by making physicians more productive. We would like to see information sent wirelessly, rather than by synchronization through cradles. However, it is a good start. It is nice to see that the next generation of doctors are starting off with good information capturing habits.

Note: This news release may contain forward-looking statements. Readers should take appropriate caution in developing plans utilizing these products, services and technology architectures.

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