The use of technology in healthcare is often difficult. The
             information systems deployed by any organization must meet the health needs
             of the patients or consumers, the business needs of the organization in the
             financial terms of the industry, as well as be effective in a purely
             technological fashion. At the critical care center of the New York-Weill
             Cornell Campus, there is currently an attempt to implement a entirely
             paperless system within the hospital environment. This means that all
             patient information, lab results and medical texts would be accessible only
             on computers. Also, physicians would record and order medications via
             computer and write computer-based progress notes. This is designed to
             minimize errors regarding incomplete and faulty information, and would
             allow systems to notify medical personnel electronically in the case of
             contraindicated medications, for example. Additionally, a fully featured
             sign-out program would allow the House Staff to print sign-out sheets
             containing brief histories, medications, and to-do lists for each of their
             patients, enhancing communication between primary and the covering
             physicians on call for that evening, even if the physicians were not the
             patient's regular doctors. (Official Website, 2003)
             At present, in the midst of this critical transition, the critical
             care facility employs Eclipses software for charting on patient and the
             medication given. Although the software company deployed is better known in
             the media for its games technology, the visual nature that this allows for
             creating charts is useful, especially when the individuals who must read
             the charts need to do so quickly and/or do not speak English as their
             primary or first language. (Eclipses, 2001)
             The critical care facility also uses a Pyxis machine to database all
             the narcotic information regarding patients. This software was designed
             specifically for the industry, as "P...