Leading hospitals implement Motion C5 in clinician usability studies,
collaborating with Motion, Intel and clinical system vendors
February 2007 San Francisco. Motion Computing, a leader in ultramobile
computing and wireless communications, today announced its new C5 mobile
clinical assistant (MCA) at UCSF Medical Center during a joint conference
with Intel. The MCA is a new computing category, created by Intel with
support from Motion to enable nurses, physicians and other clinicians to do
their jobs on the move. The Motion C5, the first product in the MCA
category, integrates durable design elements with key point-of-care data and
image capture technologies to simplify workflows, ease clinician workloads
and improve overall quality of care. Designed based on input from thousands
of clinicians worldwide, the C5 brings reliable, automated patient data
management directly to the point of care. Intel and Motion conducted
extensive user level, ethnographic, human factors, time/motion and clinical
workflow research. This research resulted in clear requirements for a
purpose-built mobile device. This collaborative effort resulted in
development of the Motion C5 – designed with and for clinicians – that is
now being implemented in clinician usability studies worldwide. The C5 is
the first highly sealed, fully disinfectable computer to integrate into one
durable device the relevant technologies important to clinician workflow and
productivity. The C5 combines multiple devices into one — including a
built-in barcode and RFID reader for patient identification and supply,
specimen and medication administration verification; a built-in camera; and
a fingerprint reader to improve security and simplify clinician
authentication. “The Motion C5 and Intel’s MCA category are the outcomes
of unprecedented research collaboration with clinicians, healthcare
departmental leaders and our software development partners,” said Scott
Eckert, CEO of Motion. “The C5 is a great example of what we do best –
working with clients and end users on product development direction to
innovate around the right technologies, features and ergonomic design. But
it’s not just about the product; it’s about a greater infrastructure and
incorporation of wireless and point-of-care software applications that will
make integrating the C5 into a healthcare setting truly outcome-driven and
sufficiently ground-breaking in changing the way people deliver and
experience healthcare.” “About 18 months ago, we started with an idea to
develop a product that helped nurses spend more time with patients,” said
Paul Otellini, Intel president and CEO. “We used a series of early reference
designs to get feedback in clinical settings around the world. Motion
Computing innovated on top of this reference design to deliver a very
compelling solution for nurses.” Health Systems Worldwide Study and
Document C5 Usage and Results Motion and Intel are working with leading
hospitals worldwide that have enrolled in Motion’s Clinician Usability Study
Program. This program uses a systematic methodology for identifying workflow
requirements and usability risks and, following the introduction of
point-of-care technologies, documenting clinician usability experiences and
measuring C5-related process improvements. This work is being done in close
collaboration with leading clinical information system partners. Alegent
Health As part of Motion’s Clinician Usability Study Program, nurses
working in Alegent Health’s Lakeside Hospital use a combination of
technologies from Siemens Medical Solutions and Motion to manage the
administration of medications. “The Motion C5 shows incredible promise for
increasing both productivity and efficiency, allowing our clinicians to
provide a greater level of care at the patient’s bedside,” said Wayne A.
Sensor, CEO of Alegent Health. “We are committed to revolutionizing the
quality of our health care through world-class leadership and innovations
such as the C5, knowing that this is how we meaningfully enrich the lives of
the families and communities we serve.” Later in 2007, Alegent, Motion and
Intel plan to publish a comprehensive study of clinical workflow and
business process improvements attributable to this collaborative
partnership. University of California San Francisco Medical Center
UCSF, a leader in medical research and healthcare delivery, announced
preliminary results from its usage study of the Motion C5 with GE’s
Centricity Enterprise application and GE Dinamap vitals-monitoring devices.
The UCSF usage study’s objectives were to assess improvements in clinician
productivity by enabling mobile point of care documentation while
eliminating duplicate tasks, and increases in nurse satisfaction ratings and
time with patients. Preliminary data recorded indicates a substantial
improvement in nurse productivity, satisfaction and clinical documentation
accuracy with a corresponding reduction in documentation delays and required
clinician logons. “Information management is a vital part of safe and
effective health care. UCSF Medical Center’s collaboration with Intel,
General Electric and Motion Computing has brought together experts from
business and medicine to develop the most innovative products in medical
informatics today. We are confident our efforts will help clinicians better
serve patients and will advance the art of medicine worldwide,” said Mark
Laret, CEO of UCSF Medical Center. UCSF clinicians, infection control
experts, IT administrators and clinical care leaders have provided Motion
with input over the last two years that has been incorporated into the
ground-up design of the C5 MCA. UCSF Home Health Care has also implemented
Motion tablet PCs running McKesson’s Horizon Homecare software. “Our
clinical staff found the Motion devices easy to use and that it fits
smoothly into their workflow in patients’ homes” said Joan Spicer, PhD, RN,
MBA, Director of UCSF Home Health Care. “McKesson's efforts to optimize
their software for this platform in concert with the Motion hardware design
have resulted in a solution that is readily adopted by home care
clinicians.”
U.K. National Health Service
Working together with Intel and iSOFT, a leading software firm with 8,000
healthcare clients in 27 countries, the NHS has been conducting clinician
usability and field trials with Motion’s C5 and will be announcing the
results of that study with Intel and Motion in London on Wednesday, February
21, 2007.
In addition to Alegent, UCSF and NHS, nearly forty (40) leading health
enterprises have enrolled to participate in the Motion Clinician Usability
Study Program. Some examples of these include: The Chester County Hospital,
Children’s Hospital of Omaha, Evanston Northwestern Healthcare, Meriter
Health Services, Springfield Clinic, St. Elizabeth’s Health Care, Sunnybrook
Health Sciences Centre, Susquehanna Health and the U.S. Department of
Defense Military Health System.
“Often in the past, the clinician adoption rate and economic benefit
assumptions used to justify clinical information technology purchases have
not been realized. To reduce human error and latency while improving the
data integrity required for quality decision-making in clinical settings,
clinicians must access real-time patient information at the point of care.
Motion’s C5 MCA is a purpose-built tool for clinicians, uniquely designed
with support from leading clinical software application partners using an
approach that offers clinicians a real opportunity to create breakthrough
improvements in clinical processes, patient service levels and efficiency –
bringing actual practice closer to the promise of point-of-care
documentation,” said Joel French, vice president of Motion Computing and
general manager of its Healthcare Business Group.
Leading Clinical Information System Providers Drive Innovation
Motion Computing has long partnered with leading software and hardware
vendors focused on developing products to serve the needs of clinicians in
inpatient hospitals, home health care and outpatient clinical environments.
Motion’s partnership with Intel is designed to equip and support leading
clinical information system vendors in adapting their applications to the
functionality and technologies of the C5. EMR implementations have been only
moderately successful in the past because independent vendors of hardware,
software and infrastructure did not collaborate early enough. Healthcare
organizations and clinician users were then left to integrate isolated point
technologies within their workflow and facility constraints.
In close collaboration with many of the world’s leading clinical system
developers, Motion and Intel are enabling partners to take advantage of the
Motion C5 MCA. Some of the companies that have demonstrated significant
thought and technology leadership by enabling their applications and their
diagnostic devices to exploit its unique features on behalf of their clients
and clinician users include: Allscripts, Cardinal Health, Cerner
Corporation, Epic Systems Corporation, Eclipsys Corporation, GE Healthcare,
iSOFT, McKesson, NEXUS, Siemens Medical Systems Corporation and Welch Allyn.
According to HIMSS Analytics, these leading solution providers account for
approximately seventy (70) percent of the clinical information system
installations used by hospitals in the United States.
Many of these leading organizations will be showcasing and demonstrating
their solutions on the Motion C5 at the 2007 Healthcare Information
Management and System Society (HIMSS) Annual Conference February 25-29,
2007, in New Orleans.
Cleaning and Disinfecting
Motion included in its C5 design input from several of the foremost
epidemiology experts to create an industrial design with smooth surfaces and
an absence of ports and recesses that might otherwise become reservoirs for
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