Archive for March, 2006

Clinical Anesthesiology from USBMIS

USBMIS has gone to great lengths to produce a well-informed, consistently organized, and user-friendly application for your PDA. Clinical Anesthesiology is a succinct overview of the basic concepts and clinical considerations in the anesthetic management of patients, and is a must-have for any anesthesiologist or trainee in this specialty.
Check out these valuable features:
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Epocrates Doctors Day offer

March 30 is Doctors Day (Happy Doctors Day!) and Epocrates is having a special offer:
Subscribe to ALL of their mobile products for just $75 AND receive a FREE subscription to Epocrates® Online Premium! That’s a $209.98 value for just $75. Big discount!

Tags: ePocrates

Medical Texting

The Ectopic Brain blogs about Health Service Needs More SMS. Just yesterday a colleague of mine emailed me for help as he is experiencing issues with his Palm T5 and his t630 phone, being unable to retrieve SMSes from the phone. This just goes to show you how dependent we have become on SMSes. The [...]

USBMIS Sale of the Week Extended

This USBMIS Sale of the Week has been extended till March 26.

Tags: Palm, USBMIS

New Skyscape releases

You might be interested in these new Skyscape releases:
Internal Medicine On Call, 4th Ed. Special Mobile/Desktop Bundle
A concise, portable reference that focuses on the evaluation and treatment of over 60 of the most common internal medicine on-call problems.
The Breastfeeding Answer Book - Pocket Guide Edition
Complete and up to date information for those who help mothers [...]

Food Pyramid 2.6

Food Pyramid 2.6 has been updated

Application Description
This simple program is based on the USDA’s food guide pyramid. It will remind you that what kinds of food you should eat everyday.
You can sort the records by date and large notes field for input additional information. At the end of each day you can put in the [...]

Skyscape Achieves Major Milestone

Press Release
Skyscape Inc. Achieves Major Milestone Surpassing 500,000 Medical Professionals Using Its Mobile Point-Of-Care Solutions
MARLBOROUGH, MASS. – March 20, 2006 – Skyscape Inc., the firm that pioneered in-context integrated medical references, has achieved an important new milestone by surpassing 500,000 registered medical professionals using its library of mobile medical decision support tools.
A half-million nurses, physicians [...]

Patient management software update

My favorite patient management software for the Palm has been updated again.
What is it? Why, Iambic’s Agendus Pro of course I’ll elaborate a little later on but I use Agendus extensively in my daily work and it works fine for me to keep track of my patients, patient and work related tasks and notes [...]

More medical schools requiring PDAs

In effort to improve care, more medical schools requiring PDAs (via Palmaddicts)

Brown recently joined a growing number of medical and nursing schools that require students to buy and use PDAs. Faculty and students say the technology saves time and helps them provide better care, in addition to reducing medical errors. Drug references and diagnostic programs [...]

Shortcut tip for your Palm

Miss using Shortcuts for your Treo650?
Well there is a freeware replacement called Shortcut5
Shortcut5 appears in your Preference Panel and you can set your definitions there.
For example I defined a shortcut for “admission”
Name:adm (note you don’t put the “.” when defining the name, only when you call up the shortcut)
Shortcut:
admission
So in Agendus when I am typing [...]