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OS/2 COMES TO THE RESCUE IN TRAUMA CENTER
January 4, 1994
*** This OS/2 success story was written by PSP Communications Media ***
*** Relations Staff with the complete knowledge and cooperation of ***
*** all parties involved. ***
The trauma unit of the Washoe Medical Center in Reno, Nevada uses
OS/2 and OS/2 applications to provide immediate care to its patients.
Nurses in the trauma center are able to check test results and receive
vital data from OS/2-based PCs at their patients' bedsides. Using the
Quantitative Sentinel, an OS/2 application developed by Quantitative
Medicine Inc. (QMI), nearly 70 nurses conduct bedside charting more
efficiently and accurately than ever.
Patient data can be accessed, calculated, and graphed on the PC in a
matter of minutes, permitting doctors and nurses to remain with the
patient longer during treatment. In addition to its obvious benefits
for patients, the OS/2 solution saves time for nurses documenting
enormous amounts of data. It provides clear and legible records that
can be read just as accurately in the future. It provides a consistent
manner of record-keeping so all nurses can understand each others'
descriptions of patient conditions and maintain accurate inventories
of supplies.
Before OS/2 and QMI applications were used in the trauma center, all
medical data was recorded on paper. But the paper system resulted in
misplaced records, unnecessary delays, and often illegible charts that
proved useless after a short period of time. Then a DOS-based computer
system was tried. But because DOS is a single-tasking system, only
one task could be conducted at a time, which delayed things even more;
essentially, results gained from DOS did not warrant the amount of time
taken to learn how to use it. Unlike DOS, OS/2 was easy to learn and
provided many benefits.
Today a nurse administrator uses OS/2's multitasking capabilities to run
DOS and Windows word processing applications while running the powerful
QMI medical applications. With OS/2, the administrator can display and
print a medical chart, for example, while continuing to compose a letter
using the DOS or Windows word processor. At the same time, applications
that make backup copies of vital patient data are being run in the
background on the same OS/2 2.1 machine. The administrator also takes
advantage of OS/2's built-in alarm clock application, which
automatically prints nightly patient reports every morning for the
nurses.
As if the OS/2 and QMI solution is not beneficial enough for everyone,
the QMI application currently is being enhanced to take advantage of
OS/2's ability to handle dynamic data exchange. This will permit
different applications to share data on the PC screen at the same time.
Changes made to a calculation in one window, for example, will be
reflected automatically in a chart from a graphical application
appearing in another window. Future versions of the QMI application
also will support OS/2's 32-bit graphics engine so charts and graphs
will appear even faster and with more clarity.
If you want to learn how you can take advantage of OS/2, or would like
more information about the OS/2 and QMI solution, contact Jane Berdinski
of the Washoe Medical Center Trauma Unit or Gerald Woodard of QMI at
800-851-6525, extension 222.
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