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The paper briefly describes Ward-In-Hand, a project aiming to support the day-by-day activities of doctors and nurses within an hospital ward by providing a tool for workgroup collaboration and wireless access to the patient's clinical records. The project, which is at present experiencing its first prototype, is based on accessing the...

The paper describes the structure and first user experiences of Ward-In-Hand, a system intended to exploit wireless networking on handheld devices at patients bedside in an hospital ward.