Archive for April, 2007

Palm on ePrescribing

Palm Healthcare Solutions has a page on ePrescribing
ePrescribing is the use of computing devices to enter, modify, review and output or communicate drug prescriptions. It can eliminate the need for hard-to-read handwritten prescriptions, and the serious errors in doses and drug combinations that they sometimes cause.
Palm’s website features two key products in this area: iScribe [...]

Red Book Update

Unbound Medicine has announced the release of Red Book®, 27th edition for PDA, Web, and wireless devices. Red Book contains current recommendations for diagnosing, treating, and preventing infectious diseases in infants, children, and adolescents. Created by the American Academy of Pediatrics Committee on Infectious Diseases in conjunction with the CDC, the FDA, and other leading [...]

Silver Bill-It

Nancy Ehrlich has written in to inform us of Silver Bill-It. This is a charge capture solution running on Windows and Mac and supports the major PDA platforms: Palm, Pocket PC and Symbian. Blackberries however are not currently supported.
You may want to check out the company’s FAQ

Tags: Palm, Symbian, Windows

USBMIS sale : The Essentials of Critical Care Nursing Pocket Handbook

USBMIS is offering 15% off through April 24 for their title The Essentials of Critical Care Nursing Pocket Handbook - a concise, quick-access reference containing essential information for critical care and progressive care settings. It was designed to provide busy clinicians with an easy-to-use resource and includes the items that clinicians are most likely to [...]

Caught the twitter bug

I’ve decided to give Twitter a spin. First heard about it in TWiT (This Week in Tech podcast hosted by Leo Laporte but nothing to do with Twitter actually). The cool thing is that there is a Twitter for Treo client

It works well but this beta version is missing Clipboard utilties so one can’t easily [...]

Updated in Palmgear

A couple of new updates spotted in Palmgear
IV Med Notes: Nurse’s Clinical Pocket Guide
Accessing an intravenous site and delivering fluids and medicine can be a difficult and frightening experience for students. IV Med Notes alleviates students’ fears by providing up-to-date information needed to safely administer medications by IV.

Procedures in Medicine 2008 v1
A medical reference text [...]

PDA+Abacus = Radiation detection device

Via Palmaddicts:

The Abacus is a handheld, digital radiation detection device that enables you to complete your surveys automatically with your Abacus and a Palm Pilot or Treo Phone with Bluetooth connectivity. Not only does it offer excellent sensitivity to low levels of alpha, gamma, and x-rays, but the internal guard detector automatically performs gamma subtraction [...]

Personal Digital Assistants : Essential NOT optional

Personal Digital Assistants : Essential NOT optional is an excellent post by TE Cheah, a colleague and fellow Palm user. Dr Cheah says and indeed I agree:
Personal Digital Assistants are now Physicians Daily Assets, an essential not optional tool.
Further reading: Personal Digital Assistants: Practical Advice for Clinicians in 2007 (Medscape article, free registration required)

Tags: Palm

Skyscape CME 360

Skyscape has launched CME 360, a new service which helps physicians keep up-to-date with the latest medical information. The new CME 360 is the only continuing medical education offering that seamlessly integrates with a large portfolio of over 450 information resources by specialty supported by Skyscape.
HOW CME 360° WORKS
The physician gets new CME activities delivered [...]

BloodPressMgr

Hi guys, long time no see. Although i havent post in a while (due to some time consuming medical activities) , i have always followed the site on a daily basis. Today I present you a program , BloodPressMgr, which lets you handle the serial blood pressure readings you might be taking of your patients. This [...]