Archive for April, 2005

Epocrates MobileCME

Epocrates wishes to remind users of their MobileCME service

Epocrates® is thrilled to announce a new way of earning CME credits – the MobileCME™ learning system. Clinicians can now earn CME credit conveniently from their handheld device any where, any time.
MobileCME from Epocrates is unlike any other program because you can
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Haemoncrules on a PPC

Want to be able to run Haemoncrules on a PPC? Well I haven’t ported it over yet but if anyone wants to try, they can install StyleTap which claims to be able to run PalmOS applications on a Windows Mobile device..

Tags: Palm, PPC, Styletap, Windows, Windows mobile

Anesthesia Central

Unbound Medicine has launched Anesthesia Central, a collection of PDA, Web and Wireless apps for Anesthetists. Unbound bills this as “A premier collection of disease, drug, test, procedure, and literature information for anesthesiologists, critical care specialists, nurse anesthetists, and trainees. Includes access on PDA, Web & wireless devices via Unbound’s award-winning platform!”

Tags: Access, Unbound

Splinting Manual for PDA

MeisterMed has released Splinting Manual for PDA which is a free iSilo reference which makes full use of the graphics and text linking capabilities of iSilo

Adapted from the Ortho-Glass® Splinting Course Manual (Fifth edition) by MeisterMed with the permission of the publisher. Includes indications, techniques, and step-by-step instructions with illustrations for applying nineteen [...]

Phatnotes as your peripheral brain

Back in November I blogged about Memoleaf being another way to organize your Palm Memos. Memos are a great way to keep Pearls, sinppets of info and are a great replacement for those Index cards (I sure hope Jim Zaslavsky is reading this!).
What if you are an owner of a Pocket PC? One of [...]

A couple of new cardiology titles

Dx/Rx: Valvular Heart Disease
Dx/Rx: Coronary Thrombosis
are a couple of new titles from Skyscape that those in the cardiology field might want to check out….

Tags: Skyscape

Southbeach Diet on your Palm

Skyscape seems to have gone to the general health consumer market for the first time, and not concentrating on medical/health professionals alone with the release of the Southbeach Diet Onhand

The South Beach Diet™ OnHand is the perfect complement to the best-selling South Beach Diet™ book created by Dr. Arthur Agatston, M.D., preventative cardiologist and inventor [...]

Easy Pulse

Taking the pulse rate may not be so convenient nowadays with digital display watches or worse still analog watches with no second hand (like mine!)
You may want to check out EasyPulse v1.0:

Description:
Need to take a manual pulse? Forgot your wrist watch? No second hand? Not so good at math? Let EasyPulse do the work of [...]

Not everyone is convinced…

The Philadelphia Inquirer has an article about Doctors and PDAs

Both student doctors and practicing physicians say the PDAs are no replacement for that medical standby: memory. To use the device, they say, you’ve got to know where to start, from the disease’s cause to the drug name.
“It’s just a different way to do research rather [...]

Treo650 in Healthcare

TreoCentral has an interesting thread on this issue.
If you are a doctor with a Treo650, or considering getting one, it’s worth a read - lots of real-life experiences here!

Tags: Treo