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How Hand Held Computers Work?

 

As technology exists and changes, we cannot deny the fact that high technology dominates our life. Why? Simple! Technology makes our daily tasks more convenient, faster and efficient for a short period of time. Products of technology vary according to its specific application and efficiency. One of these products is hand held computer. Hand held computer is a portable computer that is small enough to be held in one’s hand. It is a hardware designed for PDA (Personal Digital Assistant) devices running Windows CE. But how hand held computers work for a doctor (general practitioner) and a manager in a supermarket?


A Doctor (General Practitioner)

            A general practitioner is a medical doctor who provides comprehensive general care to patients, rather than focusing on a specific organ system, family of conditions, or type or medical issue. Also, known as family doctors who often a patient’s main doctor. They perform yearly check-ups, treat a variety of conditions and refer patients to specialists. With this coherent propositions, hand held computers should be their vital asset and equipment. But how?
            
         The patients’ safety is the most important issue on healthcare and medicine. Some research reported that 44,000-94000 deaths occur annually due to medical errors. The two major reasons for these errors are either lack of information about the patient or lack of knowledge about the medication or therapy. And for this matter, hand-held computers become popular as point of care reference tools. Its convergence as well as the internet and wireless networks will enable to assume more essential roles as mobile transmitters and receivers of digital medical information. With enhanced wireless connectivity, hand-held computers can be used at the point of patient care for charge capture, electronic prescribing, laboratory test ordering, laboratory result retrieval, web-access, e-mail communication and other clinical and administrative tasks. Hand-held computers help general practitioners to concentrate more on patient care and referrals for the patients to a designated specialist according to the patients’ condition, by minimizing the time spent on accessing, retrieving, and recording of clinical data. Also it can help in electronic prescribing by providing clinical decision support at the point-of-care. There are researches that signify the application’s vitality of hand-held computers not only for general practitioners but in the world of medicine contribute to efficiency and safety of each patient. Also, the accessibility of medical records, data, and other administrative and medical information through hand-held computers improve the patients’ safety and quality of care.

A Manager in a Supermarket


           A manager is a person tasked with overseeing one or more employees or departments to ensure these employees or departments carry out assigned duties as required. While a supermarket is a store that sells a wide variety of goods including food and alcohol, medicine, clothes, and other household products that are consumed regularly. So how can hand-held computers help the manager to efficiently manage a supermarket that sells a wide variety of foods and other basic needs?
            Hand-held computer makes the work of a supermarket manager effective for a short period of time. It gives the manager an automatic track of all inventories that the supermarket has. Hand-held computer has been used as part of the checkout process, and hold information on what supplies are present in shelves, warehouse and what the company’s required inventory numbers are. Also it can help the manger to predict shortages and automatically order new inventory when necessary. In regards with marketing, it helps the manager to create better marketing plans through analyzing sales data. And for this, it will give the manager an idea on what is selling well, and organize the supermarket so these popular products are easier to find and are connected with promotions. An example of hand-held computer used in a supermarket is  SEC (Shelf Edge Computers) which are used for price changes, stock pictures (information on stock totals) and for forecasting deliveries.



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