Our hospital is a private psychiatric facility with approximately 200 employees. The personnel database was originally set up in Lotus, and being familiar with 1-2-3, I found it easy to refine these files and transfer them to my Palmtop.
I now have this information at my finger tips, in my HP 95LX. This has greatly improved my ability to respond to questions and give sound guidance without having to go back to my office and look up the information on my desktop terminal.
Additionally, I have adapted and loaded our salary scales and the New Mexico Hospital Association annual Wage and Salary Survey into a Lotus spreadsheet. Recently I was attending a Worker's Compensation meeting in another city when the Hospital Administrator called with a personnel problem. With my personnel and salary database in hand, we were able to come up with a solution without having to wait for my return the next day.
I also record the credentials of our professional staff, and have developed a spreadsheet that permits me to carry relevant data on our physicians and other professional staff. This makes it easier to answer questions about staff certifications after normal hours.
I not only use PHONE in the conventional way, but I keep various data items in it (e.g. "Employee benefits"). This makes it easy to access odd bits of information. Now, when I get calls at odd hours, I can look up an insurance policy number, or what have you, and answer the question on the spot. In my case, having the 95LX is almost like having an office at home or wherever I travel.
Thomas R. Vincent Mesilla Valley Hospital Las Cruces NM, USA