Epocrates has put up an interesting Case Study which demonstrates how their suite may be useful in a real-life patient scenario.
Its a nice little Demo - Flash required. View it - if you want to know what Cabbage Palm really is. (Hint: it has nothing to do with PDAs!)
Speaking of Epocrates, I’m even more convinced [...]
Are they? I always though hospital based docs would be the first to happily embrace mobile referencing - something very useful when you are rounding or seeing consults.
Skyscape reports though that Fmaily Practitioners are also quickly turining to mobile references. Press release:
SAN FRANCISCO – Sept. 28, 2005 – Family Practitioners are enthusiastically embracing the use [...]
Pacific Primary Care have released the 2006 version of Clinical Pulmonology in Palmgear.
Application Description:
Topics include: asthma, COPD, pneumonia, pneumonitis, lung cancer, sleep apnea, chronic cough, effusions, pleurisy, sarcoidosis, interstitial lung disease, pulmonary hypertension, hemoptysis, lung nodules, dyspnea, vocal cord dysfunction, atelectasis, PFT’s, chest X-ray…..
As one of their customers, I can testify that their iSilo [...]
Got this Press Release:
MARLBOROUGH, Mass. – Sept. 26, 2005 – Skyscape Inc. has updated its free “.911” emergency responder resource for Palm OS and Pocket PC devices with new recommendations from the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) based on Hurricane Katrina experiences.
Designed as a concise and user-friendly resource for PDA and smartphone use by first [...]
Well I have taken the Convergence route. Then again high time too since looking at what I usually carry (thank goodness for Dockers Mobile pants) you could say I was well and truly into Divergence, since I usually have 2 cell phones and 2 PDAs on me!
Anyway, my 2 cell phones (both Sony Ericssons, a [...]
Help is on the way for Medical Students and House officers. USBMIS has announced that PDA Applications are now available for The First Aid Clinical Clerkship Series in Medicine, Emergency Medicine, Pediatrics, Psychiatry, Surgery, and OB/GYN
Our applications contain all of the same trusted information as the text versions, plus many more exciting features:
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The 2005th edition of the Geriatrics At Your Fingertips has been released.
The good news is that the PDA version (Palm and PPC) remains free (supported by a grant from The John A. Hartford Foundation).
This new PDA version offers several new, interactive features that enhance the guide’s utility.
These include:
* a bookmark feature [...]
Good news. Palminfocenter reports that Dataviz, the makers of Documents-To-Go, the Office Suite which comes bundled with your Palm Tungstens and Treos, will be demo-ing native PDF support (albeit in the Premium version of their Office suite)
Currently, we can get a Native PDF reader but have to use hacked software not designed originally for the [...]
Brian of MedPDA.net has an amusing excuse for medical students to get Palm PDAs - so that they can impress on a first date!
Ok, so here’s a med-student secret, if you want to impress a date, use your ANATOMY skills. Now, it may or may not impress them if you can rattle off the branches [...]
Iambic has released Agendus 10 which is a major upgrade over the previous version.
If like me, you rely heavily on your Palm to manage patient appointments, schedules and tasks, Agendus is a must. In fact I keep my patient details in a separate Contact category and rely on this to log activity into the Contact [...]
i think the future is the bluetooth installations...