I understand that you use hand held devices within your trust and would appreciate answers to my following questions:
1. Has the trust found the applications beneficial?
2. Are the mobile observation applications used throughout the hospital? If not, which areas are the devices used in?
3. Does your hospital use the National Early Warning Score (NEWS) system or your own trust wide Early Warning Score (EWS)?
4. Do nurses find that the application supports their decision-making skills?
5. What is the response from patients when clinicians use the device in front of them?
6. How did the clinicians initially respond to the use of hand held devices for documenting?
7. Did the hospital encounter any resistance from any stakeholders? If so, please expand.
8. Have you got any hospital statistics since the devices were used? Such as changes in readmission rates, length of stay, avoidable death rates.
9. How much have the mobile devices cost the hospital?
10. How much have the applications cost the hospital?
11. Which company delivers the mobile systems?
12. Which companies participated in tender?
13. Is the hospital paperless? If not, do you have any near future plans for this?
