The Palmdoc Chronicles

A GSM Centro has been spotted in the wild

(white Centro on the left, red Treo 680 on the right)
(via Gadgets on the Go, originally from PDALive)
Rumor has it that this will be the GSM/Edge version of the Sprint Centro. The latter has high speed EVDO but the GSM version has “only” EDGE speed which is [...]

USBMIS is announcing their Rapid Access Facts Tool (RAFT) Beta Test which is open to all who are interested.
About RAFT:
From the common to the esoteric, RAFT has been designed to deliver all health care practitioners difficult-to-remember, but essential medical information at the palm of your hand. This free application, currently in Beta Test, [...]

It would be somewhat ironic if a site about PDAs, smartphones and mobile medical computing does not have a mobile portal. After the successful Wordpress upgrade, I have added in a Wordpress mobile plugin which makes this site mobile friendly (finally).
If you surf over to the Palmdoc Chronicles, the site will automatically detect if [...]

The free Epocrates MobileCME has been updated recently. The new version of MobileCME has some significant enhancements:
Filing for completed activities
* When you complete a course and sync to submit the data, it will be automatically compressed to remove the article (saving memory on your device) and filed into a new “Completed [...]

Over the last few years I have noted that the amount and quality of medical information on Wikipedia has been increasing. Indeed even drug information and rare diseases are suprisingly covered in this vast online encyclopedia. Bertalan Meskó whois a maintainer of the Medicine Portal, Medicine WikiProject and Medical Genetics WikiProject, blogs about Wikipedia and [...]

I have resolved to upgrade the Wordpress installation on this blog today - long overdue. There are some errors in the commenting system and hopefullye th upgrade procress, if it goes smoothly, will fix the current bugs.
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Handbase is a popular Palm (and PPC) database program. Many of us use it with custom medical database systems. I personally use it mainly for referring to Chemotherapy protocols and hospital charge codes. DDH Software has now updated it to version 4.0 and you can view the What’s New in version 4.0 page. It appears [...]

Contrary to popular belief, you don’t need an iPod to listen to Podcasts I’ve been doing so for some time now, using a combination of Juice (an Opensource application, formerly known as iPodder) to grab the feeds and Pockettunes to play the MP3s.
I mentioned the how-to in the post Medical Podcasts on my Treo
Have [...]

MedSurg Notes: Nurse’s Clinical Pocket Guide is a succinct, on-the-spot guide for caring for patients with complex medical-surgical conditions. This handy PDA software assists with focused assessments, immediate interventions, and follow-up care for patients who develop complications. All of the information in MedSurg Notes is presented in a concise, handheld format and from a nurse’s [...]