The Palmdoc Chronicles

Here’s something all medical schools should emulate. From Businesswire

Medical students at the University of Louisville now will be able to use wireless technology to enhance their education and improve the clinical care of patients, thanks to an innovative new agreement with Sprint (NYSE: S). A first with medical schools, existing and incoming students will have [...]

Pepid produces a suite of medical applications for your mobile device. These range from solutions for ER physicians, Primary care physicians, RNs and EMTs. From now till October 31st, Pepid will be donating $35 for every purchased subscription towards the Susan G. Komen Foundation.
Head over here for the packages

Tags: Breast cancer, Pepid

EMT personnel might be interested in this freebie : Ambulance Timer
AmbulanceTimer is intended to help ambulance drivers fill out their log books. The program keeps track of the important events in an emergency call so that time figures can be included in the written log or report that is often required. The driver simply taps [...]

USBMIS has released Lang Q&A: Surgery
With 1000 USMLE-format surgery questions and answers, each with thorough explanations, this resource provides an unmatched review of surgery. Students will find everything they need to ace the USMLE Step 2 and the surgery shelf exam.

Tags: Surgery, USBMIS

I’ve had a chance to play around with a Treo Pro for three days now and here’s a bit more about my experience so far. As I am running it side by side with my Treo 680, I add comparison notes in brackets.
Physical hardware
While the device is light, nice and slim (fits into my front [...]

Well for about two weeks anyway, as I have been given the chance to evaluate a Palm Treo Pro, the latest Treo from Palm which runs on Windows Mobile 6.1
My initial impression is it is one sleek looking device and it is well built and has a nice solid feel to it. It is slim [...]

(Dilbert cartoon link via the Palm blog)
I am a fan of Dilbert and Scott Adams’ great sense of humour. But it’s true, people who want to show off their phone’s fancy features can be quite irritating at times. Things are worse with the iPhone these days. I suspect there are people who have bought iPhones [...]

Especially when you already have a Treo 680 which can stream Internet Audio! Streaming audio quality is not bad, even on GPRS/Edge speeds though occasionally the audio will buffer but overall it’s not a bad listening experience.

This pic shows my Treo 680 with a 2.5-3.5 mm audio jack adaptor and hooked up to my [...]

Wayne relates his experience in Palmaddicts. Note taking on a Palm PDA without a real keyboard can be quite a tedious task. After using a real keyboard such as that present in a Treo smartphone, I don’t think I can go back to Graffiti. Nevertheless I think Wayne realises just how useful a PDA is [...]

Access Linux Platform or ALP was originally Palmsource, the software arm of Palm when it split from the parent company. Palmsource was bought up by Access, a Japanese company. ALP is a next-gen mobile operating system which is based on Linux but has a Palm compatibility layer so basically all your old Palm applications [...]