Archive for January, 2008

Health Screener

Health Screener v1.0 has been released in Freeware-palm

Description:
American Cancer Society Guidelines for the Early Detection of Cancer.
The Preventive Screener includes the following:
* Utilizes Simple Algorithm which indexes Patient’s Age with Gender
* Initial Form is the Quick Screen - Allows User to quickly enter Age and Gender
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Fatcalc and new downloads

Fatcalc was one of my first attempts at writing a medical application for Palm PDAs. I thought it would be handy to have a program which works out BMI, IBW, Body Fat content and provide basic dietary and exercise recommendations. It was initially put up in Palmgear as shareware but as Palmgear is no longer [...]

PDA Housekeeping

The long awaited Rom update for the Treo 680 has been released. Treo 680’s with the 1.04 ROW firmware should be updated as this latest version has all the patches and more. The major changes:
* Corporate email as it arrives - Have your corporate email delivered to you with Microsoft® Direct Push Technology. Accept or [...]

Body heat to charge your mobile!

Some colleagues just can’t get enough juice from their Smartphones or PDAs to last long enough at work. When a doctor goes “on-call” he may be working 36 hours at a stretch and if you don’t have your charger with you, then it is quite possible you’ll be faced with a dead mobile before the [...]

Agendus, Windows and Patient Management

I am a great fan of Agendus. I’ve been using it for years now on my PDAs and find it invaluable for keeping track of patients and organizing my in-patient and out-patient clinical activity. More recently I have also been using Agendus for Windows. This is a very nice overlay for Outlook (or Palm Desktop [...]

Free Lab Reference PDA Software

USBMIS’s Raft software which is in Beta and Free right now includes a reference to more than 1,000 of the most commonly used lab values, helps you learn the composition of fluids and daily requirements, and gain access to more than 50 interactive calculators and forms.
I have been meaning to try this sometime. The increasing [...]

Free Medical English/Spanish PDA Reference

The free USBMIS Rapid Access Facts Tool (RAFT) Beta now has a Medical Spanish module

A Spanish/English dictionary with two modes: “General,” which includes audio pronunciation and “Quick Lookup.” Audio works on Pocket PC, BlackBerry, and Palm devices with OS 5 or higher.

Tags: Freeware, USBMIS

Happy New Year

Happy New Year to all of you! May 2008 see new and exciting devices for us PDA medical enthusiasts! While I am quite happy with my Treo 680, my experience with an unlimited data plan makes me want more - in terms of speed. I look forward to the next generation GSM Palm OS Smartphones [...]