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James Foster
My clinical work is based out of the emergency department at Beth Israel Deaconess Hospital in Boston, MA. I am developing mobile-platform technologies to assist the emergency physician in improving and streamlining patient care and documenting. Emergency medicine is a time-based specialty. Therefore, using emerging mobile device technologies with wireless, imaging and touch-screen capabilities may improve efficiency. The emergency physician is interrupted very frequently and presented with asynchronous information. Documenting on-the-go both saves time and may improve documenting accuracy. Currently I am working with the iPhone and iPad devices for use in the emergency department. The first major project involves a unique interface for the physician to document critical EKG findings with the iPad.
