The Palmdoc Chronicles

Andrew Yee’s great freebie, Eponyms has been updated to version 1.85
Now with 1600 Eponyms!
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Well not quite purely a medical encyclopedia. I’m talking about Wikipedia, that immense collaborative encyclopedia that is gaining so much popularity amongst the masses. You’ll be surprised at the amount of medical information within Wikipedia, even drug information!
How can you access Wikipedia in your PDA?

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Medical Student’s PDA Reference by USBMIS is a concise, yet comprehensive reference designed to provide clinically-relevant information in a portable, handheld format. It is designed for all medical students, interns, and other trainees and physicians working on clinical services.
Content includes:
* High-yield format for easy comprehension.
* Concise discussions [...]

Whether you are a doctor or a nurse, you might want to take a look at how mobile technology has changed the way we work in the clinics and the wards.
Health Data Management has a couple of very interesting articles this month:

Nursing I.T.: From Stations to Bedside
Mobile Apps: Plenty of Choices, Challenges
Using a smart phone, [...]

What Andre Chen said is so true. It’s a difficult task for software authors to convince Pharma companies to sponsor software written by doctor programmers. The tide will turn when there are more and more PDA using doctors who would gently suggest to the Pharma Reps that they prefer PDA versions of pocket reference books [...]

YouTube has a video clip demonstrating how wireless PDAs are being used to capture data at the point of roll-out of anti-retroviral therapy.
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Ok guys, I’ve put up the Must Have Apps page. It’s a “work in progress” so tell me what you think.
I plan to add Must Have Apps for medical students and the various specialties….

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I am a long time Agendus user. Earlier versions were great for most Contact-centric functions but it lacked one thing: Contact to Contact linking. This is particularly important if say you want to keep track of your patients and their referring doctors. Agendus Pro v 11 handles this nicely and even has “Intelligent” contact linking [...]

That’s when we use our latest gadgets in all sorts of situations. A colleague told me it was a “sign of our times” when a patient of his told him that her IV line got accidentally disconnected and there was some blood spilled on the hospital bedsheet. She could actually show it to him as [...]

The Palmdoc Chronicles wishes to apologise to Petaling Street for the multiple Pings. We were importing old Posts from 2004 (from Blogspot) and I forgot that we had the auto-pinger plugin installed in Wordpress sigh……
A thousand apologies once again.
Note to self: MUST disable auto-pinger prior to Import!!

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