December 1 is World Aids Day. I thought I’d try and locate some free HIV information for your Palm PDA.
The CDC has an AIDS Info Tools webpage with a Drug Database and a HIV/AIDS Glossary .
You can also download HIV Drug & Mutation Reference Guide 2.0 from PalmGear.
There is also a free iSilo reference General [...]
Skyscape has updated the HPND5™ (Stedman’s Medical Dictionary for the Health Professions and Nursing, 5th Ed.) and also released StedmansA™ (Stedman’s Abbreviations, Acronyms & Symbols, 3rd Ed.)
The Fifth Edition of the popular Stedman’s Concise medical dictionary is thoroughly updated with a new name and more than 51,000 entries, featuring more of the medical terminology used [...]
How do you organise your notes on your PDA as your “peripheral brain”? I must admit I am rather disorganised as I just chuck them into my T3’s Memo. Things have been getting quite cluttered lately and I have been looking to better organise my notes.
There are many solutions out there. Jim Thompson for example [...]
Spotted this bizzare idea in Gizmodo - an Electronic Cigarette Counter which you can stick on your pack of carcinogens!
For PalmOS users you can use some freeware utilities like Cigarette Count
and Smoking v1.03 to keep track of how much you’ve poisoned your body each day.
Ectopic Brain blogged about the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality [...]
Skyscape has released 5MCC 2005 (Griffith’s 5-Minute Clinical Consult 2005)
Medical software for PDAs are really becoming huge and memory cards are a must. Still I can’t help noticing that the memory requirement is 4.6MB for PalmOS compared with 10.2MB for Windows mobile (PPC)!
Tags: Palm, PPC, Skyscape, Windows, Windows mobile
Wells criteria was highlighted recently in the press - this is a screen shot from the Medwire Avantgo channel showing the article. Wells criteria has recently been tested out again in the Emergency Room setting and has been found to be useful as a screening guide for the diagnosis of Pulmonary embolism
I thought I’d just [...]
Fear not weight watchers, Palm programmers are out there to help you!
I spotted Calorie Factor which is described as “a dietary calculator used to calculate a score of points”. Freeware.
Reminds me of another free tool which was discontinued due to pressure from a certain organization. I looked around and WWCalc is still alive and [...]
At long last Avantgo 5.7 (beta) is out and supports Hires+ (320×480) screens in both Portrait and Landscape modes.
This is simply fantastic and something I’ve been waiting for a long time.
You can download it here
At the moment there unfortunately isn’t a whole lot of terrific medical content on Avantgo channels. I do hope more [...]
Yet another patient tracker program, Patient Follower has been released.
Description:
Patient Follower - A PalmPilot Patient Tracking Tool. Designed for attendings, residents, students.
Featuring:
- Follow Patient Info and Location
- Automatically Follow Hospital Days
- AutoCalc Medication/Treatment Days
- Summarize Patient Totals by Ward
- Summarize Patients by Intern or Team
- Archive Patients and Bounce-Back
- Tap on Headings for quick [...]
Noah of KVPUG continues fine development on his Palm EMR project. This runs on PHP and MySQL. It basically allows you to access patient medical records from a PDA and is an interesting solution if you have WLAN at work.
View the ongoing discussion in KVPUG’s Doctors Shack. To see an online demo, take this link [...]
i think the future is the bluetooth installations...