Portable input device is a device that is used to enter data into computer for further analysis or for storage without limitation of location; this means that the users can enter this information from anywhere. There In this paper. With the fast-paced medical complications and advances in the working environment, there has been the need to ensure that the technology that is used by medical sector brings with it the flexibility that is needed and the ease that is so much sought by the users. This paper will look at the flexible input devices that are used by medical personnel.
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Portable input devices that are used by doctors and clinicians can be those devices that are used to enter information that the nurses collect or those devices that are used to get diagnoses results that are collected from patients. These diagnoses results could be blood pressure and sugar levels. Some of the devices that are used to get these measurements are that of Medislate Mobile Clinical Assistant and SaharaPlate. These two devices are used to enter diagnosis results of patients by the clinicians. Sometimes, the nurses and clinicians would like to use handwriting to enter medical records and diagnoses. These devices are used to enter these results; they have touch screen technology so that nurses can enter information free-style. Another example of portable medical input devices are the wearable blood pressure monitor. This device makes use of pulse wave velocity. This device is different from the traditional blood pressure method because the device is used to monitor pressure the whole day and thus is more effective and reliable.
There are numerous advantages of portable mobile devices which include the fact that they are flexible and accurate. With these devices, the accuracy of the nurses is increased as now it is possible to get results for some specified period of time.
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