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Title

The impact of mobile computing in the performance evaluation of Emergency Medical Services: an Australian case study

Author(s)

Burley, Liz;  Scheepers, Helana;  Owen, Libby

Abstract

Interest in mobile computing applications has been increasing over the past few years. The Healthcare sector has begun recognizing the potential for providing at “point-of-care” access to applications through mobile devices. This paper explores the impact of mobile computing in the evaluation of the performance of an Emergency Medical Services organization in Australia. The paper concludes that the use of a mobile system enables an emergency service organization to speed up data capture and more efficiently provide data that can be used to the advantage of paramedics and the organization. It also has the potential to enable the organization to more effectively manage various aspects of the organization.

Publication type

Conference paper

Research centre

Swinburne University of Technology. Faculty of Information and Communication Technologies

Source

Proceedings of 'Thought leadership in IS', the 17th Australasian Conference on Information Systems (ACIS 2006), Adelaide, South Australia, Australia, 06-08 December 2006

Publication year

2006

FOR Code(s)

0806 Information Systems

Keyword(s)

Case studies;  Emergency medical services;  Healthcare systems;  Information systems;  IT investment evaluation;  Mobile computing

Publisher

Australian Association for Information Systems

ISBN

9780975841716

Copyright

Copyright © 2006 Liz Burley, Helana Scheepers and Libby Owen. The authors assign to ACIS and educational and non-profit institutions a non-exclusive licence to use this document for personal use and in courses of instruction provided that the article is used in full and this copyright statement is reproduced. The authors also grant a non-exclusive licence to ACIS to publish this document in full in the Conference Papers and Proceedings. Those documents may be published on the World Wide Web, CD-ROM, in printed form, and on mirror sites on the World Wide Web. Any other usage is prohibited without the express permission of the authors. Published version of the paper reproduced here in accordance with this policy.

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