The impact of innovation in medical and nursing training: a Hospital Information System for Students accessible through mobile devices

In the HISS (Hospital Information System for Students) project, run by Campus Bio-Medico University of Rome, students of Medicine, Nursing and Dietetics practising in the wards were trained to use handheld devices connected through a WLAN to record patients' data. Beside learning this new technology and applying it for freely accessing teaching resources from any place in the Campus, the students were able to design new user interfaces for accomplishing daily tasks. The work done by Dietetics students was a good basis for the development and implementation of a real solution in the University Hospital.