Archive for December, 2008

What’s in store for us in 2009?

Most would know by now it is crunch time for Palm. The date to watch out for is January 8. This is when the Palm “New-ness” will be revealed to us at last. The highly anticipated Linux-based Nova devices will probably debut or be demoed on this date during the invitation-only event Palm is holding [...]

Unbound Medicine releases BlackBerry Medical Software

Unbound Medicine has launched native applications which you can install and run on your Blackberry. The applications feature convenient over-the-air installation, wireless automatic updates and superior navigation. Other features include full text with tables and images, index selection, cross-linking between titles and full memory card support.
Products now available for BlackBerry include Nursing Central, The 5-Minute [...]

An iPod Touch for every medical student

Only if you are lucky enough to be in Ohio State
With the use of portable media players, medical students at The Ohio State University Medical Center can now carry the equivalent of heavy textbooks and medical references in their lab coat pockets. The portable media players are part of the current technology making it easier [...]

Epocrates Essentials Coming Soon to iPhone

Since Epocrates launched its free drug reference for the iPhone in July, 50,000 physicians and thousands of consumers and other healthcare professionals have downloaded the application. Soon, the full subscription version will be available to iPhone users.
The first 1,000 users to pre-order Epocrates Essentials for the iPhone before December 19, 2008 receive 25% off ($38 [...]

Tarascon Pocket Pharmacopoeia Web Edition

The beta is over, and it is now available any place as long as you have a web browser- on your desktop, laptop, or mobile device - including your iPhone. You can save over 35% With a Web/Mobile Bundle. Normally $39.95 each, purchase a 1-year subscription to the Web Edition AND the Mobile Edition for [...]

RASCAL 1.0

Renal Artery Stenosis Calculator v1.0 is available for download from Freewarepalm.com
Description:
This is a simple calculator that allows physicians to determine the probability of Renal Artery Stenosis based on a patients clinical parameters.
By setting the clinical parameters (Sex, Age, Creatnine etc.) and hitting calculate, one can easily determine the pretest probability of RAS.
This equation is just [...]

The phone that feels the flu before you do

Did your parents tell you to remember your scarf when you went out, so you wouldn’t catch a cold? Today, the advice might be: ‘Remember your cell phone!’ A maker of over-the-counter cold and flu remedies released a program this week for the T-Mobile G1, also known as the “Google phone,” that warns the user [...]

The iCEphone cometh

Billing it as a “Swiss Army knife of handsets”, U.K.-based company named Medical Phone is debuting it’s iCEphone next year. It’s unique folding design allows it to function in handheld as well as a “desktop” mode. Bundled with multi-lingual emergency first aid software and the ability to access medical records from practically anywhere, the [...]

The End is nigh. Is it time to move on?

The drums of doom for Palm Inc have been beating quite a bit lately, and the noise is getting louder and louder. While there have been dire predictions before, somehow I feel this time, things look really gloomy for Palm, especially with the global economy expected to worsen next year. The company’s Q2 FY09 Financial [...]