The Palmdoc Chronicles

Spotted in the comp.sys.palmtops.pilot newsgroup:
HERE I AM: Track menstrual cycle, fertile days and pregnancy calculator with hires pictures !
Fabrizio:
> Completely rewritten, Here I am ! 3.0 now offers:
> - Track your cycle every month
[...]
> FULL 7 DAYS TRIAL !
Deborah:
> I don’t mean to disparage what may well be a great piece of software,
> but you’d [...]

Gosh, I didn’t realise apart from saving on paper & reducing prescription errors, we are actually reducing paper cuts
In this report from eWeek:
A major health insurance company is providing PCS and networked handheld computers to thousands of doctors, hoping to cut down on paperwork and prescription error.
Launched last month, WellPoint Health Networks Inc.’s [...]

Unbound Medicine and F.A. Davis Company, a publisher of health professional texts and databases, are partnering to integrate F.A. Davis�s references with Unbound Medicine�s CogniQ platform.
According to the companies, via CogniQ, an integrated handheld, wireless and Web platform, F.A. Davis content will be delivered to the point of care, enabling physicians, nurses, and other [...]

The bottomline is : If you are a doctor and you don’t use a PDA, you don’t know what you are missing!!
February 25, 2004 - Gibbsboro, N.J.-based Virtua Health didn’t have to wait long to get results from its recent PDA pilot study. After only a month, a control group of 20 physicians saw enough [...]

Healthvision, Irving, Texas, has introduced software that enables physicians to conduct hospital rounds using a PDA and wireless network. The company made the announcement at the 2004 Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society’s Exhibition & Conference in Orlando, Fla.
Mobile Inpatient Rounding retrieves updated patient information and clinical resources needed by physicians to complete their rounds.
Source: [...]

An internal study by MedStar Health has revealed that PDAs can help physicians better communicate with other caregivers. The Columbia, Md.-based integrated delivery system has enabled its physicians to use PDAs for medical references since 1998. In 2000, the provider began testing physician PDA use on a more interactive level.
The delivery system’s Good Samaritan Hospital [...]

Mobile technology leaders ePocrates, Inc. and MercuryMD, Inc. announced today at the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS) conference and exhibition an agreement that enables the integration of MercuryMD’s MData(R) Enterprise
System with ePocrates Rx(R) and ePocrates Rx Pro(TM) drug reference applications.
“By combining MData with the ePocrates drug reference and formulary [...]

Sylvain Aubry has released Lipid Calc 2003 v1.0, a freeware medical application.
Description:
Calculates lipids and metabolic syndrome.
Menu has screening, medication, waist measurement using Framingham and Canadian 2003 guidelines. SI units only.

Tags: Freeware, Palm

PalmInfoCenter has this story about palmOne teaming with Sprint “to develop mobile enterprise solutions targeted at healthcare organizations. The companies will leverage the Sprint Vision Network, and the Treo 600 to bring third-party applications to market solutions to mobilize healthcare processes, allowing healthcare providers to improve patient care, increase efficiencies and manage costs. ”
While “Sprint [...]

Another freebie from Timothy Allen, Anoxic Brain Injury Prognosis v1.0 :
Designed for neurologists and medical students on their neurology rotation, this program calculates anoxic brain injury prognosis based on three algorithms.

Tags: Freeware, Palm, Student