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January 8, 2007
Illinois Hospitals Provide Physicians with PDAs
When Dr. David Rogers needed quick results from a blood test for one of his hospitalized patients in the early 1980s, he had to leave the person's bedside and either make a call to the hospital's lab - a call that often went unanswered - or show up at the lab.
Rogers, a pediatric surgeon at Southern Illinois University School of Medicine, now whips out a hand-held computer known as a personal digital assistant. He uses a stylus to touch a few icons on a screen slightly larger than a credit card.
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