Design and development of interface design principles for complex documentation using PDAs.

The screen interface has been believed to be the major barrier for the adoption of PDAs in healthcare. The study objectives were to design a set of screen interface design principles for complex documentation using PDAs and to examine nurses' perception of the ease of use and usefulness of the application. A 21-page Chinese version of the interRAI MDS-HC home-care assessment tool composed of more than 250 assessment questions was used for the application. A WiFi Palm-based PDA was used. A convenience sample of 60 subjects, primarily nurses newly trained to use the MDS-HC assessment tool, were invited to evaluate the PDA system in terms of Davis' Technology Acceptance Model. The final information structure of the PDA application consisted of 18 categories composed of 262 questions over 63 screens. Subjects could move to any assessment question in less than two taps without a memory burden and finish the question in one tap. Respectively, close to 95% and 93% of the subjects agreed that, overall, the system was easy to use and useful for their work. We conclude the screen interface challenge for complex documentation using PDAs can be improved and managed to achieve to a very high usability.

The development of integration mobile-based home care support systems: MDS-HC as an example.

The MDS-HC (Minimum Data Set for Home Care Assessment Instrument) has been an effective home care evaluation instrument. However it was not yet accepted in Taiwan because it is too long for our over-burdened home care nurses. We developed integrated mobile-based home care support system using MDS-HC. The results showed that an integration mobile-based system can increase efficiency and reduce manual work.

Developing an intelligent phone-based emergency triage communication and support system.

In this study, the emergency triage support system was taken as an example. We develop new call flow style and combine traditional passive call flow. The system is designed by voice menu and users can command services actively. The telephone connect computer server to enter call flow module with ASR and TTS. Then the recognition term come from voice term database. Voice management center is an ER triage decision system.

SIGMA simulation for health promotion management.

Health promotion is the key task to achieve global health 2010. Periodical physical check-up have been the most basic manifestation for maintaining personal health care and promotion inverted exclamation markC Sufficient health check facility was provided in a medical center with annual service of 9200~9500. Sixty customers receive around 20 check ups in this physical check up center daily. Smoothness, efficacy and customer satisfaction of the process will be caretakers inverted exclamation mark| concern and target for promotion.