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Assessment Tools – PDA: Emerging Technologies and Ergonomics Applications
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Assessment Tools – PDA:Emerging Technologies and Emerging Technologies and
Ergonomics ApplicationsErgonomics Applications
COL Mary Lopez12 August 2003
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The Voice from the Field
• Limited Resources• Limited Time• Limited Expertise
– Tool Selection– Technical Knowledge
• Overextension
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Mobile Information Technologies
• Advanced Mobile Portal Technology• Telemedicine Issue Drivers:
• Access to Information– Patient Records – History, Allergies, Lab, Pharmacy– Clinical Practice Guidelines
• Data Accuracy• Reduce Errors• Patient Access – Home Healthcare, At-Risk
Populations (Cardiac, Diabetes Monitoring)
• Technology Acceptance– 55% of physicians by 2005
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Military Applications
• Mission Variety: Humanitarian Warfighting• Battlefield Digitization System
– “Commanders Digital Assistant”– GPS and Communications Components
• Force XXI Central Digitization - Successes– Averted Friendly Fire
• Battlefield Questions (80%)– Where are you?– Where are my leaders?– What do my leaders want me to do?
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Military Applications
• Mission Directions, maps, real-time GPS coordinates
• Scenario: Each soldier can:– Mark location changes– Send reports of ground observations or enemy
strength– Send preformatted messages (“Call for fire”;
“MEDEVAC”)
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Military Applications
• Lighter weight (high energy battery – reduced weight ½ and doubled useful battery life)
• Projection: Field testing at Fort Bragg – could go Army-wide in a few months.
• “If you have devices that take away a lot of the confusion, they could save lives.”
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Military Medical Applications
• Deployed Environments– Limited expertise– Isolation– Efficient and standardized records– Forward medical care– Communications
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Ergonomics Applications
• Tele-Ergonomics– Office Assessment Example
• Excel Spreadsheet Based Tools– Demonstration
• General Assessment• Patient Handling Tool
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VDT Assessments - Another ‘Voice from the Field’
• Increasing demand for office assessments• Time required
– Tool research– Tool selection– Workstation assessment– Analysis– Reporting
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VDT Self-Assessment Program
• Local intra-net based program• Basis: AF Level 1 Guides• Key features:
– Self assessment (privacy, control)– Contributing factors– Produces tailored analysis report for the worker– Provides other reference documents– SOH visibility and reporting - Options
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VDT Self-Assessment Program
• Deployment Schedule– Final Beta Testing
• Volunteers– Early Fall - Program available for download or
e-mail• Demonstration
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Questions??