The Palmdoc Chronicles

Unbound Medicine has just released Pocket Guide to Diagnostic Tests

Application Description:
Pocket Guide to Diagnostics Tests, 4/e for PDA provides quick, evidence-based information on the selection and interpretation of common diagnostic tests. Covering more than 350 laboratory, imaging, and microbiology tests, this handy reference is ideal for answering common questions such as:
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The American Medical Informatics Association (AMIA), a provider of healthcare information management, research, development, and education, is working with Thomson MICROMEDEX to offer its members mobileMICROMEDEX, a mobile resource that provides drug, alternative medicine, toxicology and acute care information too Palm OS and Pocket PC PDAs or smartphones.
According to MICROMEDEX, the medical information in mobileMICROMEDEX [...]

Unbound Medicine has released Taber’s Cyclopedic Medical Dictionary 2.2

Taber’s Cyclopedic Medical Dictionary, published by F.A. Davis, defines more terms than any other health science dictionary. With approximately 56,000 terms in all — including more than 2,200 new terms — Taber’s 19th is the most comprehensive health science dictionary available today.

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Bellevue, Wash.-based HealthProLink Inc. has released a version of its clinical documentation system for pharmacists that can be used on PDAs running the Windows Mobile operating system. The vendor already sells a version of the software that runs on Palm OS-based PDAs.
The HealthProLink system is designed to enable pharmacists to use PDAs to document clinical [...]

Do you think Ishihara color plates on a Palm would be really useful and accurate to screen for Color Blindness? The quality of Palm screens these days has improved alot. I am posting this as a test also of Blogger’s new “Hello” photoblog service.  

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Skyscape has released Emergency Medicine On Call :

This user-friendly reference assists in the initial evaluation and treatment of the most frequently encountered problems in emergency medicine, both common and potentially life-threatening. Get instant access to 97 of the most common or important emergency medicine problems experienced by adult, pediatric, and geriatric populations. Each section includes [...]

MobileHealthData reports:

Boston MedFlight, a provider of critical care transport services in the New England area, soon will have mobile access to medical reference data from eMedicine.com Inc., Omaha, Neb. The not-for-profit organization, which was created through a collaboration of six Boston-area hospitals, will use the vendor’s Clinical Knowledge Base application when transporting patients via its [...]

I’ve always marvelled at the lectures/talks I’ve attended where there is instant feedback from the audience - realt-time polling - using specialised electronic voting equipment.
It was interesting to read in Family Medicine Notes of a recent paper in Jamia on “Audience Response Made Easy: Using Personal Digital Assistants as a Classroom Polling Tool“.
The abstract:

Both teachers [...]

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How do you manage your Patient contacts? Do you use a specialised patient tracking app? I personally find these cumbersome. My most used program to track patients is Agendus (formerly known as Action Names) and as a long time registered user of Agendus, I can say it has served my needs very well. Agendus suits [...]