University of Cincinnati College of Medicine, Cincinnati, Ohio, USA.
Personal digital assistants (PDAs) are commonly used to access medical information at the point of care. Systems that allow point-of-care access to hospital HIS data are currently in use or being implemented, but little has been reported about the clinical or educational impacts of such systems. We conducted group interviews with medical housestaff to ascertain their perceptions of such impacts. These findings add to the limited literature regarding the use of such systems.