Mobile Patient-Information System

Advanced medical information systems developer, Global Care Quest, Inc. (GCQ; Aliso Viejo, CA, USA), has entered into an agreement with Century City Doctors Hospital in Los Angeles (CA, USA) to integrate the facility's critical care medical systems and make the information available to physicians via smartphones, personal digital assistant (PDA) devices, and other mobile devices.

Under the agreement, GCQ will build its mobile Integrated Clinical Information System (ICIS Mobile) into the facility's IT structure. In the first phase, clinicians will have mobile access to patient x-rays and computed tomography (CT) scans as well as real time vital signs from bedside monitoring equipment. Long term, GCQ will enable the clinicians to access all of their patient information systems via handheld devices. The ICIS mobile system will be piloted initially by 10 Century City physicians and eventually extended to as many as 150 clinicians at the facility.

In December of 2005, GCQ completed a more extensive pilot program at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) Medical Center (USA), where the company provided mobile and desktop access to a wide range of critical care patient information including labs, rounding notes, and nurse charting systems, as well as x-rays, CT scans, and real time vitals. More than 1,000 physicians at UCLA worked with ICIS during that program.

ICIS performs real time integration and delivery of digital medical records, charting, bedside monitoring equipment, and laboratory results to physicians and medical teams via stationary and wireless personal computers (PCs) as well as handheld wireless devices. ICIS improves access to patient data, enhances patient safety, and reduces the cost of care by delivering critical patient information when and where it is needed.



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