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¹Family Medicine, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Cananda. roland.grad@mcgill.ca

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Physician use of electronic knowledge resources on PDAs was hindered by infrequent software updates. Manual updates were less effective than semi-automatic methods, highlighting challenges in mobile data collection without wireless internet.

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Area of Science:

Medical Informatics
Health Services Research
Family Medicine

Background:

A prospective study investigated clinical information delivery and retrieval among 41 Canadian family physicians using an electronic knowledge resource (EKR).
Physicians utilized the Information Assessment Method (IAM) software on PDAs to report on retrieved information's relevance, cognitive impact, and application.
Both the EKR and IAM required periodic updates for effective research.

Purpose of the Study:

To assess the frequency of software updates for personal digital assistant (PDA) based electronic knowledge resources.
To compare manual versus semi-automatic methods for updating physician software.

Main Methods:

Forty-one family physicians used PDAs with Windows Mobile 6, accessing EKR and IAM offline.
Software updates were performed by synchronizing PDAs with PCs.
IAM updates were manual; EKR updates were semi-automatic.

Main Results:

Approximately 25% of physicians rarely or never updated their PDA software independently.
A significant proportion of available software updates were never installed.
The semi-automatic update method showed a modest improvement in installed updates (58.9%) compared to the manual method (48.6%).

Conclusions:

Sociotechnical factors significantly complicate mobile data collection and transfer when wireless internet is unavailable for software updates.
Infrequent and incomplete software updates pose a barrier to the effective use of electronic knowledge resources in clinical practice.
Improving update mechanisms is crucial for leveraging mobile health technologies in research and practice.