Eletronic Patiet Care Record

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The only question I would have would be potential interference with ER equipment. Many ER's use wireless transmitting of things like bedside EKG's and vitals to a central monitoring station, as well as wireless phone communications in larger ER's- like the charge nurse and attending Doc phones.

Most likely the equipment in question is using the same technology as what would be used by a wireless computer network. As long as the existing pieces of equipment are not interfering with each other I don't see any reason adding e-PCR tablets would cause an issue. If they did the key would be running each of the different types of devices on different frequencies (same idea as having multiple radio frequencies for ambulance radios). Many hospitals actually have wireless networks already that just haven't been used for this purpose. We still use paper forms but one of the hospitals I take patients too actually has a "courtesy" wireless internet connection for patients and their families.