The Palmdoc Chronicles

PeterSCM’s freebie has been uploaded to the KVPUG Yahoo group files section
(you may have to Join the Yahoo group first - membership is free)
P.S. In case anyone is curious, the picture on the splash screen is that of a cold sweet asian dessert called “Ice Kachang” or sometimes “ABC” (Air Batu Campur). Yum…….

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Here’s a wake up call to all anesthetists who have yet to discover the world of PDAs. Waking Up Costs blogs about Palm Anesthesiology a useful resource written by Donald M. Voltz M.D. for Anesthetists who use Palm PDAs.
We need more Expert Guides in other medical disciplines….. Palmsource better wake up too…

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MobileHealthData reports that Payer Finds PDAs Help Prevent Errors

A survey conducted by MedAmerica Mutual Risk Retention Group Inc. found that its physicians were able to avoid a range of medical errors by using PDAs. The Walnut Creek, Calif.-based liability payer surveyed 224 of its insured physicians for the study, conducted throughout 2003 and 2004.
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USBMIS is announcing the beta version of Bookstein’s Medical Student’s PDA Reference, for Palm and Pocket PC devices. If you would like to be part of the free beta test group for this application, you can download the beta version at BooksteinBooks.com.Beta testing will continue until Febuary 15, 2005.
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Skyscape has released WUCEndo™ (The Washington Manual® Endocrinology Subspecialty Consult)

Prepared primarily by residents, fellows, and attending physicians, this handy guide is ideal for residents called on to do an inpatient consult, for students working on an inpatient medicine service, and for specialists seeking information on endocrinology and general internal medicine management. This PDA reference covers [...]

I last blogged about RSS feeds and Plucker back in July last year.
I still use Plucker (latest version being 1.8) as my preferred offline browser and RSS reader. Up till recently though, I have been using Jpluck to grab web pages and RSS/XML feeds and convert them into Plucker format. The author of Jpluck has [...]

I spotted Medgadget’s SIMPill posting which is about a “pill bottle that uses cellphone technology to remind patients to take their medicines and warns them if they are about to take an extra dose by mistake. ” Apparently an SMS is sent to a central server once the pill bottle is opened and if there [...]

Skyscape has released CecilPkt22™ (Pocket Companion to Cecil Textbook of Medicine)

Features Information on signs and symptoms, treatment summaries, differential diagnoses, pathophysiology and clinical manifestations.

One of the first e-medical references I purchased (for US$90+) was a pocket version of Harrison’s some years ago when Ram was precious and I was using a Palm Pilot Pro [...]

A fellow KVPUGer, peterscm, has completed the stand-alone conversion of the Asian Food Calorie database.
Now with a PalmOS (sorry no PPC version!) PDA, you can carry with you and calculate how much calories, cholesterol, Na+, fibre etc you’ve ingested after pigging out on that Asian meal. I think this is a useful resource since there [...]

ICUmath, freeware, has been updated

Medical calculator for adult ICU that uses 85 medical equations, including pulmonary, cardiology, BNP CHF nomogram, pharmacokinetic dosing, renal, electrolyte, chemistry, nutrition, TPN, perioperative risk, biostatistics, acls, apache II, unit conversions, rules of thumb, and an RPN calculator with TVM.
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Added a drug buildup program, MDRD eGFR, a/A pO2

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