Archive for August, 2007

Pocket Trauma

Pocket Trauma has bee updated in Palmgear. This freeware application is billed as “The fastest and easiest to use application dealing with Trauma. It is a great aid in preparing for most Trauma EXAMS and Courses.”
Features :
* History dB - Collect your Patients’ History (AMPLE) in easy and style way (sic) [...]

Treo 680 promotion

Malaysian doctors and medical students listen up. Palm Asia is having a special Merdeka Celebration Treo 680 promotion - at an excellent price and bundled with freebies. Click here for more information.
If you are new to PDAs, I have updated the list of Best Freeware Medical Applications to help you get started!

Tags: Freeware, Palm, Student, [...]

A birthday card for Palmdoc

A patient sent me this birthday card and this is the front:

When I opened it, there was a cut out which “springs out” on the left..

Tags: Palm, Treo

USBMIS Sale: Internal Medicine

USBMIS is having a Sale on its title Internal Medicine. Primarily written for Internal Medicine and Family Practice residents, medical students, clinicians, and other medical professionals, this handy PDA application contains an abundance of information as well as many additional features exclusively for your handheld device.
This title is now 15% off the RRP thru Sep [...]

Antibiotic Prophylaxis

MeisterMed has announced the release of their latest free QuickTool: Antibiotic Prophylaxis. This Quicktool has guidelines for endocarditis prophylaxis and for the prevention of prosthetic joint infections. These guidelines are based on the updated 2007 American Heart Association recommendations and Advisory Statements from the American Society of Orthopedic Surgeons.
Meistermed Quicktools are free and available [...]

Merck Manual PLUS Davis’s Drug Guide for PDA-Web-Wireless

Today Unbound Medicine announced the release of The Merck Manual Plus Davis’s Drug Guide for personal digital assistant (PDA), Web, and wireless devices. By integrating the authoritative disease information of The Merck Manual with the award-winning Davis’s Drug Guide, Unbound Medicine has produced an affordable, intuitive, and up-to-date mobile reference for busy clinicians.
Handy indexes facilitate [...]

Palm UpToDate Compatible Devices

There was recently a comment asking whether or not UTD will work on a Zire 72. I am afraid not. I have also tested installation on my old Palm Tungsten T3 and T5 and it does not work on these either.
UTD lists the following devices as being compatible:
*Palm Treo 650
*Palm Treo 700P
*Palm T/X
*Lifedrive
Although they don’t [...]

Is the PDA dying?

So speculates MDNG. Or is it simply that more and more are going with convergence i.e. using Smartphones?
A startling statistic for the US is that “the current overall adoption rate for professional use of PDAs among healthcare providers, namely physicians, is 45% to 85%.”. That’s pretty high so it could simply reflect that the market [...]

BNF on Skyscape

The British National Formulary is now on Skyscape

The BNF details medicines prescribed in the UK, with special reference to their uses, cautions, contra-indications, side-effects, doses and relative costs.
Key Features
* Updated every six months, the BNF evaluates clinical evidence from diverse sources.
* The information is validated by a [...]

Skyscape for the iPhone

The folks at Skyscape have announced that they are making their popular mobile medical solutions available for the iPhone. You can browse the compatible products here.
The product page doesn’t say much but I guess the Skyscape applications are accessed via the iPhone’s browser (correct me if I am wrong here)

Tags: Access, iPhone, Skyscape