Archive for June, 2008

MeisterMed Updates

MeisterMed, home of the popular iSilo Medical Depot has several new updates:
- Topical Steroids is a new addition to the QuickTool series, available free to subscribers of the Meistermed mailing list
- MeisterMed Mobile version is available for surfing with your mobile browser
and
- ICDMeister Online, a web-based adaptation of MeisterMed’s popular coding reference for PDA

Tags: iSilo

Confessions of a Palm Addict

A picture speaks a thousand words

Tags: Palm

USBMIS special: Current Consult Medicine

Current Consult Medicine 2007 by USBMIS is now 20% off for a week.
We did a review of this great product here

Tags: News, USBMIS

Epocrates Guide to Going Mobile

Epocrates has put up a Go Mobile webpage to help Physicians choose a Handheld device or PDA either for first time use or as an upgrade.
There is an introductory Slideshow which should convince you why you need a mobile device. The main resource centre has tips on Helping you choose your device, as well as [...]

Sanford Guide 2008 PDA Editions

The 2008 electronic editions of The Sanford Guide to Antimicrobial Therapy are now available — Palm, Pocket PC, and BlackBerry are all supported
You can get them here
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Tags: Drugs, Sanford

Hanging On For Dear Life

It’s a tough time to be a Palm OS user.
The company and its products seem to be stagnating. It used to be all about Microsoft and Windows Mobile, but ever since Apple released its SDK for the iPhone, everybody seems to be waiting for their favorite medical applications to be released for that platform, presumably [...]

Netter’s Anatomy for the iPhone

Well, that’s one app which will make the most of the iPhone’s gorgeous screen. Netter’s Anatomy has been available for sometime now for PDAs - Palm and WM platform - from Medical Wizards. Owners of the iPhone can now look forward to a version from Modality in July this year.

More links:
Medgadget
Student Doctor Network Forums
(hat [...]

An Appeal to Palm from the Medical Community

I’m with Jeffrey D. Jarin, M.D. on this. I like Palm too - the ease of use, functionality of the PIM for every day use and the tons of medical applications available on PalmOS. I never really liked WM, even WM 6.x does not cut it IMO. Then came the iPhone. Now lots of people [...]

PDAs are helping nurses

The Herald News is reporting that 68 hospitals are participating in a national research project — Transforming Care at the Bedside — to improve the quality and safety of patient care on medical and surgical units. The PDAs are being used to track where nurses are spending their time during their shift, and the [...]

Pneumonia HAP-HCAP-CAP v1.0

Like PreOp Cardiac Eval Tool and Reference, this is another freebie medical application by Joshua Steinberg MD. Here’s the Description:

This is a Palm PDA application which walks a physician, student, or resident through the management considerations for nearly all patients with pneumonia. This expands upon the Community Acquired Pneumonia program for Palm I wrote by [...]