Tablet PCs Key Element In Success Of Specialty EMR

By Daniel Dura, chief technology officer, Graphium Health.

Despite over two decades of effort, tens of millions of dollars and many government initiatives, the market penetration for intraoperative electronic medical records (EMRs) among anesthesiologists is only 10 to 15 percent. Many EMR solutions incorporate complicated user interfaces, requiring months of setup and training. These hidden costs dramatically increase expenses for a solution that is often slow and inefficient.

Graphium Health is a healthcare software company dedicated to improving patient satisfaction and quality of patient care through mobile technology. The company’s first product offering, AnesthesiaEMR.com, is focused on providing anesthesiologists with the tools to enhance efficiency, reduce error and improve patient care. AnesthesiaEMR.com is a web-based application that digitizes the existing intraoperative anesthesia form, allowing users to document via a tablet PC, effectively connecting the anesthesiologist to the cloud.

By digitizing a typical paper-based form with AnesthesiaEMR.com, Graphium Health is able to almost eliminate training costs and provide anesthesiologists with an easy-to-use, fully-functional and cloud-based EMR solution at a fraction of today’s costs. In order to optimize its AnesthesiaEMR.com software, Graphium Health required a mobile, durable and connected device with extended battery life and stylus input capability.

After a thorough comparison of a variety of tablet PCs, Graphium Health chose the Motion Computing® C5v Tablet PC as well as the J3500 Tablet PC to develop AnesthesiaEMR.com. By developing AnesthesiaEMR.com to run on Motion® Tablet PCs, Graphium Health was able to capitalize on the tablet PCs’ unique stylus capabilities, replacing paper records with an electronic solution that enhances efficiency, reliability and accuracy.