solution for filing in forms with touchscreen monitor or wacom on windows 8

tdiddy

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Oct 9, 2013
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Hi,

I'm setting up a medical practice, and am brainstorming for some ideas. I have an initial grant to go with electronic medical records, so I have a little bit of budget space to play around with.

I commonly have patients fill in a form (usually a memory test) in my office. The only solution available right now would be to print out the form, give it to them, fill it out together (they have to fill in some parts, me the others) and then scan it back into the system.

I was thinking about a Wacom DTU-1031, an andoird tablet with splashtop and a stylus, or a good touchscreen monitor with a stylus. I will be running windows 8 pro on the desktop.

I want to have 2 monitors for the desktop anyway, so if one/both of them is touch screen maybe that is money better spend then a seperate device? does anyone have any recommendations for a good touchscreen monitor/stylus pairing that would be good enouch to write on (not artwork quality or anything)?

my initial monitor budget was $250-300 each (around 20", 1080P), but if its going to be touchscreen and i don't have to buy a wacom i could spend $500 or more each

Thanks!

PS I'm in Canada so HIPAA is not essential, but obvously it should be a secure solution
 

USAFRet

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Whatever hardware you use is secondary to the actual user interface. If it is hard for the user (your patients and staff) to use, their experience will be non-optimal.

I've seen brilliant hardware (iPad) crippled by a braindead UI, and absolute crap hardware that was actually usable, because of the UI.

I don't know your patients, but consider that some of them will not be computer savvy. At all.

Possibly iPads (or iPad Minis), with a PDF form. Save, and beam back to the central server.
I say iPad, because far more people would be familiar with those than something else.

But do pay attention to the actual software. Touchscreen calibration, confusing choices, color, text size...all those kinds of things contribute to, or detract from, the user experience.