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PDAs assist in learning process of undergraduate clinical students, but smartphones deemed more favorable
Access to current information for patient care through mobile technology
offers assistance to medical students in the clinical setting, but the
best ways to fully utilize this aid still remains unclear. To resolve
this, a study was conducted in the UK that examined how mobile
technology enables medical students to learn and what theoretical
underpinning supports the learning. Pubmed (A Mixed Methods Study)
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Ethics and HIT
Challenges...
http://jamia.bmj.com/site/icons/amiajnl8946.pdf
http://jamia.bmj.com/site/icons/amiajnl8946.pdf
- patient safety should trump all other values; corporate concerns about liability and intellectual property ownership may be valid but should not over-ride all other considerations;
- transparency and a commitment to patient safety should govern vendor contracts;
- institutions are duty-bound to provide ethics education to purchasers and users, and should commit publicly to standards of corporate conduct; and
- vendors, system purchasers, and users should encourage and assist in each others’ efforts to adopt best practices.