HP 200LX is Good Medicine

I found yet another occurrence of the HP 200LX in real life applications.

At the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit here at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles, CA, we are testing a new device for monitoring patients. The device is handheld and has a serial port which is connected to an HP 200LX for data collection. Perhaps this is not incredibly exciting but it was a thrill for me (okay, I lead a very dull life).

Also at Cedars, all of the Medicine-Pediatrics (and perhaps Internal Medicine, as well) residents are offered a 2 MB HP 200LX as a loaner during their residency (being in Pediatrics, I had to buy my own). We have infrared printers available on all of the floors for printing and will occasionally beam patient info between computers when we switch services.

Terrence Chun

tchun@UCLA.EDU