COMMUNICATION AND DATA ENTRY DEVICE

摘要

An integrated personal communcation and data entry device (10) includes a portable housing (12) and an internal controller (26) coupled to the housing. A paging device (30) and a voice recording device (28) are coupled to the controller. A system for paging members of a medical team is also provided. A paging signal dispatch system (40) includes a transmitter (42) configured to broadcast a paging signal to page a plurality of pagers (10, 30) simultaneously and a receiver (44) configured to receive page acknowledge return signals from the pagers. Each pager includes a receiver (30, 32) configured to receive the paging signal and a transmitter (30, 32) configured to send a page acknowledge signal. The pager is configured to send the page acknowedge signal based on an input to the user input device (18).