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Hindawi Publishing Corporation Nursing Research and Practice Volume 2012, Article ID 307258, 8 pages doi:10.1155/2012/307258 Research Article The Effectiveness and Clinical Usability of a Handheld Information Appliance Patricia A. Abbott Health Systems Outcomes Department, Johns Hopkins University School of Nursing, Baltimore, MD, USA Correspondence should be addressed to Patricia A. Abbott, pabbott2@ Received 5 October 2011; Accepted 9 January 2012 Academic Editor: Marita G. Titler Copyright © 2012 Patricia A. Abbott. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. Clinical environments are complex, stressful, and safety critical—heightening the demand for technological solutions that will help clinicians manage health information efficiently and safely. The industry has responded by creating numerous, increasingly compact and powerful health IT devices that fit in a pocket, hook to a belt, attach to eyeglasses, or wheel around on a cart. Untethering a provider from a physical “place” with compact, mobile technology while delivering the right information at the right time and at the right location are generally welcomed in clinical environments. These developments however, must be looked at ecumenically. The cognitive load of clinicians who are occupied with managing or operating several different devices during the process of a patient encounter is increased, and we know from decades of research that cognitive overload frequently leads to error. “Technology crowding,” enhanced by the plethora of mobile health IT, can actually become an additional millstone for busy clinicians. This study was designed to gain