s anyone currently using iPads to do CDI out on the patient floors?

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George Hachey from Florida asked this on the ACDIS Facebook page. I thought I'd post his question here also.

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  • cbarnescbarnes
    edited May 2016
    not here
  • dvitalone1dvitalone1
    edited May 2016
    Heck, we don't even have computerized charting yet!
  • cynthia.a.goeweycynthia.a.goewey
    edited May 2016
    We are not.
    Cindy

    Cindy Goewey RN, BSN
    Clinical Documentation Specialist
    Coding Operations
    Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center
  • ggoodman@virginiahospitalcenter.comggoodman@virginiahospitalcenter.com
    edited May 2016
    We are not using iPads but that does sound like a great idea. We have laptop computers and it has been suggested that we take them up to the floors with us due to the limited computer availability there. However, there is also limited desk space, so no where to set the laptop if we took it to the floors. An iPad would be easy to carry around is so small!
  • mary.a.dunnmary.a.dunn
    edited May 2016
    We also have laptops we use on the floors. I have worked before where we also had access to a computer based coder, but at my current facility we are still using the DRG expert. Space is always an issue. Ipads don't seem that much smaller than a laptop.
  • susankleinsusanklein
    edited May 2016
    We use lap tops which have our 3M grouper, coding clinics, and
    software....
  • [Deleted User][Deleted User]
    Yes, seems like laptops are the common item to use if the facility is electronic. I wonder what the security implications would be or if they would just be the same as the laptop. Certainly seems like the iPad would be lighter to carry around.
  • NormaBNormaB
    edited May 2016
    We use laptops as well - has grouper, EMR and everything else my desktop computer contains.

    I like the more portability of the iPad but I don't believe we could get the same amount of resources our laptop contains. Plus the keyboard/screen would not support some of our software.

    They are currently looking at them for our Hospitalist group.

    We have "dog fights" for space. Whoever gets there first gets the space. however, if it starts to look crowded I just unplug and move until free. Most physicians know what I am doing- it doesn't seem to bother them - I am a resource for them. I get questions from CDI to "can you help me log onto this computer?"

    Nbrunson, RHIA, CCDS
  • mary.a.dunnmary.a.dunn
    edited May 2016
    One problem with I Pads is on line security. There is a company that has already been on the TV here in Indiana/Illinois that has found that "apps" for the I phone are not always "information secure" Remember those products run on satellite internet. Your IT dept would have to find a way to only let them get "on line" with the WI FI in hospital. Anything else would be unsecure


    Mary Dunn RN BSN MSM
    Clinical Documentation Specialist
    Community Hospital
    Munster, Indiana 46321
    ext 5612
    phone; 219 513 2612
    pager 219 222 2217
  • catladyrncatladyrn
    I used a laptop on wheels. It's a cart designed to carry a laptop. They put a privacy screen over the monitor so that it wasn't readily visible to anyone not directly in front of the screen, and I would just lock my computer when I walked away. I bought a cheap stool that hung on the side of the cart, and just parked myself whereever I could find counter space. Now I have EMR, and the laptop is still the base computer but I'm in an office and have external monitors.

    Renee


    Linda Renee Brown, RN, CCRN, CCDS
    Certified Clinical Documentation Specialist
    Banner Good Samaritan Medical Center
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