One of the inevitable aspects of using PDAs is that you’ll run into some problem sooner or later and apart from support and help from the manufacturer, another good way to get help is from a fellow PDA user.
If you are lucky enough to have a good friend who uses PDAs you could get [...]
Melvin Astrahan has also released Medical Physics Calculators 1.0.1
Application Description
The STP program calculates the atmospheric temperature and pressure correction factor to reference conditions for ion chamber measurements. Other calculators include a gap calculator for adjoining radiotherapy fields and an equivalent square & circle field calculator.
Freeware
Tags: Freeware, Palm, Palmgear
Melvin Astrahan has released a freeware utility:
MammoSite HDR Calculator 1.0.2
Quality assurance calculator for MammoSite brachytherapy implants. Based on AAPM TG-43. Academically developed, not affiliated with Proxima Corp.
Requires MathLib. Freeware
If you are in the Oncology field, you should check out the other freebies by this author, including TNM Staging and TDF Calculator
Tags: Freeware, Oncology, Palm, Palmgear
Unbound Medicine has launched Nursing Central™
Nursing Central is designed around clinical nursing activities. Two F.A. Davis nursing manuals of diseases and diagnostic testing are at the heart of the Nursing Central package. They are supported by the best-selling Taber’s Cyclopedic Medical Dictionary and Davis’s Drug Guide, the winner of the 2005 Handango Champion Award for [...]
Communicating with patients is of course very important and sometimes one can’t wait for the hospital translators. There are some “talking dictionaries” for PDAs but there are precious few designed specifically with the healthcare professional in mind.
Well there’s a new software called arpadi® which was developed for just this reason:
it’s billed as “a mobile [...]
At long last, someone (Skyscape none other) has released Williams Manual of Hematology in PDA format.
A portable, quick-reference guide with clinical information on over 100 hematologic diseases and their management. Based on the new Sixth Edition of Williams Hematology, this reference presents concise information on etiology and pathogenesis, clinical and lab features, differential diagnosis, treatment, [...]
Recently a patient of mine with Acute Promyelocytic Leukemia who is off maintenance treatment now, developed a dropping platelet count. A recent PCR for PML-RARA which detects traces of his leukemia is negative. A drug history shows he has been taking Cordyceps and Milk Thistle.
I looked up the former using Lexi-Natural Products for Palm OS [...]
Just when I thought all was quiet on the medical software front!
Spotted in Palmgear:
Releases by Skyscape:
CAChemoRx™ (Handbook of Cancer Chemotherapy, 6th Ed.) 6.0.3
Mosby’s Medical Drug Reference 2004 (MosbyMDR™) 6.0.5
Release by Pacific Primary Care:
Clinical Ophthalmology 2006 v1
Tags: Palm, Palmgear, Skyscape
Skyscape Food Guide is a free release from the reknown medical PDA publishers.
Based on The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA)’s MyPyramid food guidance system, this handy handheld tool will help you choose the foods and the amounts that are right for you. The Skyscape Food Guide puts all the detailed nutritional and diet information, useful [...]
Andrew Schechtman has announced that DermMeister will be released in August 2005.
Its a Dermatology PhotoAtlas for your PDA and to my knowledge it’s the first one there is. The great news is that this will be free and it looks to me like it will be another winner for Meistermed.
Great job, Andrew!
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i think the future is the bluetooth installations...