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RNs and LVNs What's in your pocket?

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The transformation of medical care with mobile apps has become so ubiquitous that hospitals are discarding conventional devices such as overhead paging, pagers and telephones with smartphones.

USC-KECK  nurses will no longer use standard hospital communications gear. In an effort to simplify and improve communications, the academic medical center is rolling out an initiative placing specialized adapted iPhones in the hands of each nurse.

Keck’s IT leaders  have ordered 300 “specialty” iPhones for  use by the nursing staff. “The idea is to give them one device to do everything,”KECK…

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 RNs and LVNs What's in your pocket?

The transformation of medical care with mobile apps has become so ubiquitous that hospitals are discarding conventional devices such as overhead paging, pagers and telephones with smartphones.

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