»Motion Computing announces the C5 Clinical Assistant Tablet PC

(February 2007)

We've been hearing about a new vertically centered Tablet PC coming from Motion Computing for quite some time, and today we get all the details, specs, and photos of the new C5 Clinical Assistant Tablet PC. You can read Motion Computing's official press release here. See below for the official specs, features, and pictures. You can click each image for a higher res version.
 

The lightweight, bump-tolerant, spill-resistant and easy-to-disinfect C5, the first mobile clinical assistant, allows nurses to access up-to-the-minute patient records and document a patient’s condition in real time, enhancing patient care while reducing the administrative workload of the clinical staff.

Designed with the Healthcare Environment in Mind:

• Highly sealed, almost “portless” design for disinfection

• Chemical-resistant resin design to withstand frequent cleanings

• Lightweight design with built-in ergonomic handle to easily carry on-the-go

• Hardware accelerometer, shock-mounted hard drive, and magnesium-alloy internal frame help protect against data loss and system impairment if dropped

• High-capacity, warm-swappable Lithium-Ion battery for about three hours of battery life

• Accessible spare battery that can rest nearby in ready-to-use mode in the charging slot on the docking station

• Docking station with three tilt angles (15°, 25° and 38°), standard mounting for anchoring to countertops, walls or carts, and Ethernet, VGA and USB ports

• Optional View Anywhere™ technology to address lighting conditions and enables viewing of the screen under harsh lights

Improves Clinician Productivity:

• Digital ink capability and Speak Anywhere™ technology to capture patient data, either via handwritten or dictated notes, which are automatically transcribed into on-screen text

• Built-in wireless features, such as Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, and barcode/RFID technologies to enable reliable real-time updates

• Optional built-in barcode scanner to support electronic medication administration records (eMAR)

• Integrated RFID reader for both caregiver and patient identification, and advanced tracking technology for controlled substances and costly supplies

• Embedded camera for convenience and visual documentation for approved clinical uses, which might include photographic wound documentation or range of motion studies

Embedded Security:
 

• User authentication through the barcode scanner, the RFID reader or the built-in fingerprint reader to increase patient data security over traditional passwords

• Standard OmniPass software for authentication of multiple users and convenient password management with the fingerprint reader and a single, easy-to-use application

• The Trusted Platform Module for device-level security

• BIOS-level passwords to inactivate data input and transfer modalities, such as Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, RFID or the camera, in restricted environments

 

Specs:

Chassis: Magnesium-alloy internal frame, Upper faceplate composed of disinfectant-resistant resin, Lower backplate composed of disinfectant-resistant resin overmolded with Elastomer

Processor: Intel® Centrino® mobile technology with the Intel® Core Solo
Processor U1400 (2MB of L2 cache, 1.20GHz, 533MHz FSB)

Operating System: Windows Vista™ Business, Microsoft® Windows® XP Tablet PC Edition

Chipset: Intel 945GM

Display: 10.4" XGA TFT LCD (1024 x 768), View Anywhere® option, Intel Display Power Saving Technology (DPST)

Graphics: Intel 945GM Extreme Graphics controller, Rotation: 0°, 90°, 180°, 270°

Video RAM: Maximum 256MB total with Intel Dynamic Video Memory
Technology (DVMT)

Audio: Azalia HD audio codec

System Memory: DDR2 533MHz SDRAM memory, Base configuration of 512MB, Upgradeable to maximum 1.5GB at point of purchase

System Storage: 1.8" Hard Disk Drive (HDD) with 30GB or 60GB capacity; PCI bus master enhanced IDE; Supports Ultra ATA 66/100

Communications: Integrated Intel® PRO/Wireless 3945a/b/g network connection; Optional Atheros 802.11a/b/g card available; Integrated Bluetooth®

Audio: Motion Speak Anywhere® technology; Multi-directional array microphone design with 2 microphones; Knowles Acoustics IntelliSonic software; Integrated speaker

I/O Ports: Docking connector; DC power-in port with rubberized cover

Embedded I/O: 2.0 Megapixel Camera; Optional 1D/2D Barcode Reader; 13.56MHz RFID reader; 13.56MHz HF integrated passive RFID tag;

Security: Integrated Fingerprint Reader with OmniPass software; TCG Trusted Platform Module (TPM) 1.2

Dimensions: 10.0" x 10.0" x .95" (256mm x 256mm x 24.3mm)

Weight: 3.1 lbs.1 (1.40 kg)

Battery: Lithium-ion standard battery with 40WHr capacity;

Charging Time: Standard Battery - 1.5 hours (Tablet PC on/off)

System LEDS: Power on/off LED ring around power button; Battery status LED; Wireless 802.11 LED; Bluetooth LED; RFID LED adjacent to RFID read trigger

Control Buttons: One 5-way directional control button for navigation; One function button, one Dashboard control button and two
programmable buttons; Secure Attention Sequence (SAS) button; Camera capture button; RFID read trigger button; Barcode scan trigger button

Press Releases:

Motion Computing®, a leader in ultramobile computing and wireless communications, today announced its new C5 mobile clinical assistant (MCA) at UCSF Medical Center during a joint conference with Intel. The MCA is a new computing category, created by Intel with support from Motion to enable nurses, physicians and other clinicians to do their jobs on the move.

The Motion C5, the first product in the MCA category, integrates durable design elements with key point-of-care data and image capture technologies to simplify workflows, ease clinician workloads and improve overall quality of care. Designed based on input from thousands of clinicians worldwide, the C5 brings reliable, automated patient data management directly to the point of care. Intel and Motion conducted extensive user level, ethnographic, human factors, time/motion and clinical workflow research. This research resulted in clear requirements for a purpose-built mobile device.

This collaborative effort resulted in development of the Motion C5 – designed with and for clinicians – that is now being implemented in clinician usability studies worldwide. The C5 is the first highly sealed, fully disinfectable computer to integrate into one durable device the relevant technologies important to clinician workflow and productivity. The C5 combines multiple devices into one -- including a built-in barcode and RFID reader for patient identification and supply, specimen and medication administration verification; a built-in camera; and a fingerprint reader to improve security and simplify clinician authentication.

“The Motion C5 and Intel’s MCA category are the outcomes of unprecedented research collaboration with clinicians, healthcare departmental leaders and our software development partners,” said Scott Eckert, CEO of Motion. “The C5 is a great example of what we do best – working with clients and end users on product development direction to innovate around the right technologies, features and ergonomic design. But it’s not just about the product; it’s about a greater infrastructure and incorporation of wireless and point-of-care software applications that will make integrating the C5 into a healthcare setting truly outcome-driven and sufficiently ground-breaking in changing the way people deliver and experience healthcare.”
“About 18 months ago, we started with an idea to develop a product that helped nurses spend more time with patients,” said Paul Otellini, Intel president and CEO. “We used a series of early reference designs to get feedback in clinical settings around the world. Motion Computing innovated on top of this reference design to deliver a very compelling solution for nurses.”

Health Systems Worldwide Study and Document C5 Usage and Results
Motion and Intel are working with leading hospitals worldwide that have enrolled in Motion’s Clinician Usability Study Program. This program uses a systematic methodology for identifying workflow requirements and usability risks and, following the introduction of point-of-care technologies, documenting clinician usability experiences and measuring C5-related process improvements. This work is being done in close collaboration with leading clinical information system partners.

Alegent Health
As part of Motion’s Clinician Usability Study Program, nurses working in Alegent Health’s Lakeside Hospital use a combination of technologies from Siemens Medical Solutions and Motion to manage the administration of medications.

“The Motion C5 shows incredible promise for increasing both productivity and efficiency, allowing our clinicians to provide a greater level of care at the patient’s bedside,” said Wayne A. Sensor, CEO of Alegent Health. “We are committed to revolutionizing the quality of our health care through world-class leadership and innovations such as the C5, knowing that this is how we meaningfully enrich the lives of the families and communities we serve.”

Later in 2007, Alegent, Siemens, Motion and Intel plan to publish a comprehensive study of clinical workflow and business process improvements attributable to this collaborative partnership.

University of California San Francisco Medical Center
UCSF, a leader in medical research and healthcare delivery, announced preliminary results from its usage study of the Motion C5 with GE’s Centricity Enterprise application and GE Dinamap vitals-monitoring devices. The UCSF usage study’s objectives were to assess improvements in clinician productivity by enabling mobile point of care documentation while eliminating duplicate tasks, and increases in nurse satisfaction ratings and time with patients. Preliminary data recorded indicates a substantial improvement in nurse productivity, satisfaction and clinical documentation accuracy with a corresponding reduction in documentation delays and required clinician logons.

“Information management is a vital part of safe and effective health care. UCSF Medical Center’s collaboration with Intel, General Electric and Motion Computing has brought together experts from business and medicine to develop the most innovative products in medical informatics today. We are confident our efforts will help clinicians better serve patients and will advance the art of medicine worldwide,” said Mark Laret, CEO of UCSF Medical Center.

UCSF clinicians, infection control experts, IT administrators and clinical care leaders have provided Motion with input over the last two years that has been incorporated into the ground-up design of the C5 MCA. UCSF Home Health Care has also implemented Motion tablet PCs running McKesson’s Horizon Homecare software.

“Our clinical staff found the Motion devices easy to use and that it fits smoothly into their workflow in patients’ homes” said Joan Spicer, PhD, RN, MBA, Director of UCSF Home Health Care. “McKesson's efforts to optimize their software for this platform in concert with the Motion hardware design have resulted in a solution that is readily adopted by home care clinicians.”

U.K. National Health Service
Working together with Intel and iSOFT, a leading software firm with 8,000 healthcare clients in 27 countries, the NHS has been conducting clinician usability and field trials with Motion’s C5 and will be announcing the results of that study with Intel and Motion in London on Wednesday, February 21, 2007.

In addition to Alegent, UCSF and NHS, nearly forty (40) leading health enterprises have enrolled to participate in the Motion Clinician Usability Study Program. Some examples of these include: The Chester County Hospital, Children’s Hospital of Omaha, Evanston Northwestern Healthcare, Meriter Health Services, Northwestern Memorial Hospital, Springfield Clinic, St. Elizabeth’s Health Care, Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre, Susquehanna Health and the U.S. Department of Defense Military Health System.

“Often in the past, the clinician adoption rate and economic benefit assumptions used to justify clinical information technology purchases have not been realized. To reduce human error and latency while improving the data integrity required for quality decision-making in clinical settings, clinicians must access real-time patient information at the point of care. Motion’s C5 MCA is a purpose-built tool for clinicians, uniquely designed with support from leading clinical software application partners using an approach that offers clinicians a real opportunity to create breakthrough improvements in clinical processes, patient service levels and efficiency – bringing actual practice closer to the promise of point-of-care documentation,” said Joel French, vice president of Motion Computing and general manager of its Healthcare Business Group.

Leading Clinical Information System Providers Drive Innovation
Motion Computing has long partnered with leading software and hardware vendors focused on developing products to serve the needs of clinicians in inpatient hospitals, home health care and outpatient clinical environments. Motion’s partnership with Intel is designed to equip and support leading clinical information system vendors in adapting their applications to the functionality and technologies of the C5. EMR implementations have been only moderately successful in the past because independent vendors of hardware, software and infrastructure did not collaborate early enough. Healthcare organizations and clinician users were then left to integrate isolated point technologies within their workflow and facility constraints.

In close collaboration with many of the world’s leading clinical system developers, Motion and Intel are enabling partners to take advantage of the Motion C5 MCA. Some of the companies that have demonstrated significant thought and technology leadership by enabling their applications and their diagnostic devices to exploit its unique features on behalf of their clients and clinician users include: Allscripts, Cardinal Health, Cerner Corporation, Epic Systems Corporation, Eclipsys Corporation, GE Healthcare, iSOFT, McKesson, NEXUS, Siemens Medical Systems Corporation and Welch Allyn. According to HIMSS Analytics, these leading solution providers account for approximately seventy (70) percent of the clinical information system installations used by hospitals in the United States.

Many of these leading organizations will be showcasing and demonstrating their solutions on the Motion C5 at the 2007 Healthcare Information Management and System Society (HIMSS) Annual Conference February 25-29, 2007, in New Orleans.

Cleaning and Disinfecting
Motion included in its C5 design input from several of the foremost epidemiology experts to create an industrial design with smooth surfaces and an absence of ports and recesses that might otherwise become reservoirs for pathogens.

According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, hospital-acquired infections affect more than 2 million American patients, resulting annually in 90,000 deaths and incremental healthcare costs estimated to exceed $5 billion.

The Motion C5 starts at $2,199. It will ship worldwide in May 2007.
 

Link: Motion Computing C5 Clinical Assistant Tablet PC

Source: Motion Press Releases

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