Introduction
What do drug dealers and doctors have in common? From the 1980s onwards neither professional could do their job without a pager. Only by carrying a pager can a junior doctor leave their ward, safe in the knowledge that they would be paged about tasks their patients needed. That same junior doctor also feels safer knowing that they can page their senior at any time to get advice and support for the care of those patients. And of course the code blue message on pagers is essential to the ability of the cardiac arrest team to respond quickly even as its individual members are dispersed in the hospital.
Handheld computers promise an even bigger qualitative contribution to clinical workflow. Not only can you use a handheld computer to do your clinical work faster and better than before, you can do some things that colleagues without these devices are simply incapable of doing.
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