This is a follow-up to the previous posts in the same series : Creating your own medical apps for WebOS (part 3) Creating your own medical apps for WebOS (part 2) Creating your own medical apps for WebOS (part 1) In this post, I shall use the Carboplatin Dose Calculator app I recently published as [...]
This is a follow up to the series on medical app creation for WebOS part 1 and part 2. In this post I shall run through the steps taken in using Ares to create a simple body surface area calculator.While Ares is browser based, you should have also installed the Palm SDK in order to [...]
My blogging buddy Vagus, who is an endocrinologist in the US, recently got a Palm Pre Plus with Verizon and he loves it. Initially he was dithering somewhat about getting one and I am glad he got one. Vagus sounds very pleased with his decision. Lemme just say that using this phone is just a [...]
Sometimes you might want to take a close up picture of something interesting, perhaps even in the course of your clinic, for instance a skin lesion. If you happen only to have your PDA phone with you, it may be not possible to take macro pictures unless you have a macro lens attachment. Some time [...]
In part 1, I covered an overview of development of applications in WebOS, Palm’s new operating system. If one is familiar with HTML, CSS and Javascript, then one could grasp the basics quite fast and use development tools like Eclipse or Aptana. However for mere mortals like medical folks who aren’t experienced in software programming, [...]
Palm’s new operating system, WebOS, was designed for easier coding in the sense that you essentially only need to know HTML, Javascript and CSS – the core of the WWW. You don’t need to know C++ or other fancy programming language to be able to create useful apps. I think it is a great platform [...]
Over the weekend, Palm has been rolling out another update for it’s WebOS operating system. Unlike some other fruity company’s devices, Palm’s updates come over-the-air or OTA, and Palm has been doing this regularly every 1-2 months since the Palm Pre was launched 8 months ago. With each new OS version, there has been a [...]
One of the things about the medical profession is having to be careful about who knows your mobile number. If it gets into the wrong hands, then one might get disturbed or harassed by an endless number of phone calls at odd hours, including folks who deem every ache and pain to be a medical [...]
Keeping medical references on your PDA phone is very convenient. We often prefer local storage to online access as it is faster and does not rely on a wireless connection which may be slow at times. The types of documents vary, and commonly these include; 1) PDF files. These are easy enough to copy to [...]
First of all it’s called the iPod Touch, not the iTouch (a common mistake). One of the common misconceptions is the need to get an iPhone if one wanted a PDA as an organiser and to run the medical applications available for the iPhone platform. The answer is no, you do not need to get [...]
