Archive for March, 2005

Pretest for medical students

Medical students can now prepare better for their Medical and Surgical clerkships with these new apps from Malone Consulting:
PreTest: Medicine PocketTest 1.22
PreTest: Surgery PocketTest 1.02
Sounds like a great idea and the apps are reasonably priced too.

Tags: Palm, Palmgear, Student

Another PDA Survey

MobileHealthData reports that a survey by Forrester Research found that “Though more than half of U.S. physicians regularly use PDAs, most rely on their hand-helds for administrative tasks rather than accessing clinical data”
The key findings:
- 57 % of physicians regularly use PDAs during the workday
- 80 % who use PDAs track their appointments via [...]

Skyscape - which platform?

Someone asked me which looks better - Skyscape apps on Palm or PPC?
Well as someone who now owns bot a Palm (T5) and a PPC (Dell Axim x50v) I can say they both look great.
You can view sample screenshots here
I notice though that the search function on the T5 runs a little slow and this [...]

Wireless Merck

Preess Announcement:

Charlottesville, VA, March 22, 2005— Unbound Medicine, a leader in knowledge management solutions for healthcare, today introduced a wireless medical resource for physicians and other healthcare professionals. In partnership with Merck & Co., Inc., Unbound Medicine now gives clinicians 24-hour access to select medical information from the MerckMedicus internet site using their wireless [...]

Gmail invitations up for grabs!

I’ve still got plenty of free Gmail invitations so if you can email me & share your Palm/PPC/PDA Medical thoughts, I’ll be happy to send you an invite!

Tags: Palm, PPC

OnTimeRx Italian

OnTimeRx 2.4 - è disponibile per gli utenti di lingua italiana
Well its nice to see mutli-language options for great apps like OnTimeRx which is a very useful medication reminder. This is a terrific way for developers to refresh their applications IMO.
Hopefully the author of OnTimeRx can come up with Asian language versions e.g. in [...]

New Skyscape releases

Natural Medicines Comprehensive Database 2005 - Natural Medicines Comprehensive Database 2005 gives you everything you want to know about herbs, vitamins, minerals, supplements.
Physicians’ Cancer Chemotherapy Drug Manual 2005 - Completely revised and updated for 2005, this practical handbook is an up-to-date guide to all aspects of cancer chemotherapy.

Tags: Skyscape

Clinical Hematology-Oncology 2006 v1

CG Weber/ Pacific Primary Care has just released Clinical Hematology-Oncology 2006 v1 in Palmgear.

Description
An extensive reference text on the presentation, diagnosis, treatment and differential of Hem-Onc conditions.
Topics include: cancers, Oncologic Emergencies, DVT, pulmonary embolism, the anemia’s, lead toxicity, sickle cell, prophyria, cancer syndromes & tx, blood cell abnormalities, transfusion medicine, bleeding disorders, DIC…
Features: illustrations and [...]

Using PDAs to study alcohol and aggression

Spotted in Palmaddicts:
Peter Hoaken at The University of Western Ontario wants to further explore the ties between alcohol and human aggression by collecting information using PDAs.
Source: Canada Newswire
They didn’t quit say whether the PDAs were PalmOS or PPC but I’ll bet they are PalmOS. Surely in an inebriated state it would be too difficult to [...]

Hopkin’s Opioid Conversion software

Read about the Hopkin’s Opioid Conversion Software from Ectopic Brain’s site.
Registration is free - you will be given a serial number to input.
What I can add is it works fine on my T5.
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