Paperlite: piloting a new way of working in community nursing.

Technology within healthcare is a growing industry, and health professionals now use technology within their everyday working life. Within hospitals, it is the norm to see staff using handheld devices to record clinical observations and patient notes being typed into an electronic system. However, the use of technology within community settings is far behind that of hospital counterparts. It has been acknowledged that the use of technology in healthcare will improve efficiency and remove some of the bureaucracy within the NHS, and community areas are beginning to pilot different ways of implementing this. This article describes a pilot trial of using technology to aid mobile working in the author's trust and discusses how district nursing can embrace the use of paperlite culture to improve efficiency and record reliability. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]