Laptops

Had training today for the computer run forms. This is a pilot for what will one day hopefully be a statewide standard run form. We each get a laptop that has the special software loaded on it. You use a stylus pen. Much of the form is pulldown menus and checking boxes, but there is also an windows keyboard and there is handwriting recognition software. You sign your signature and it appears in the computer. When you get refusals, the patient will sign on the laptop. The computer puts it all together and at the hospital, you hook up to a printer and it spits out the run form. It was very cool. We'll start using it on Friday or Saturday.