Archive for January, 2009

How an Internist uses his Palm Centro

Looks like Dr. Mark Angles really maximises the potential of his Centro! (via Palmaddicts)
I am a general internist and have a wide variety of medical problems I see on a daily basis. I use a Palm Centro to help me capture all the info I need to retain from my busy days. I use the [...]

Where did the Palm Garnet devices go?

Josh wrote in:
Oddly, I can’t find Tungsten TX or E2 at Palm.com at all. I know their plan was to sell until the demand died down. But I can’t find these at all. Any ideas? I don’t know how to use your blog to search for the answer, and TreoCentral did [...]

Acid Base for iPhone

Free Radical have released Acid Plus for the iPhone
Features:
* Fast, accurate input using the dial
* Primary calculations including compensations and anion gap with delta delta
* Ability to discern complex acid/base problems with secondary disorders
* Detailed views listing common causes [...]

iAnesthesia

iAnesthesia is an iPhone application which aids Anesthetists track their case logs.
With iAnesthesia: Case Logs, you can use your iPhone or iPod Touch to:
• Record a new anesthesia case log on the fly, even if you don’t have a wireless connection (your iPhone will sync data to the CaseLogs [...]

The Palm Pre - concerns from the medical user perspective

Palm was a hit in CES 2009 with its snazzy display of the new WebOS and the first product to run on it, the Palm Pre. The emphasis was on all the cool features - Synergy : integrated contacts and calendar (Exchange, Facebook, Google etc), multitasking, “deck of cards” app switching, touch and gestures navigation [...]

ABG Acid-Base evaluation tool v1.0

Josh Steinberg has released his ABG evaluation tool in Freewarepalm

Description:

This Palm PDA application walks a clinician through a stepwise evaluation of ABG’s and Electrolytes in order to assess all the acid-base disorders which may be present and arrive at diagnostic ideas for pt care.
Although I have seen at least 2 other such Palm PDA analysis [...]

An interview with the StatCoder (II)

Continuing the interview from part (I)
PD: Now that the iPhone has taken the smartphone world by storm, what are your plans in this area? Will you port all your software to the iPhone platform?
AC: For a part-time developer like myself, it’s natural to create new titles for the PDA that I’m using myself, now [...]

Unbound launches new iPhone app

Unbound has joined the iPhone bandwagon and has released it’s first iPhone bundle - Nursing Central
Features of Nursing Central on the iPhone:
* Interface optimized for iPhone and iPod touch
* Cross-links for fast navigation between resources
* Personalized Favorites
* Frequent updates!
[...]

WebOS: the way forward for mobile medical software development?

I am greatly encouraged by PIC’s Interview with Pandora which makes very interesting reading indeed about Palm’s new WebOS.
I think all of these classes of applications are really going to be fantastic to build and deliver on webOS. Anything like a medical encyclopaedia – anything sort of data and presentation-oriented I think will be very [...]

An interview with the StatCoder (I)

I am sure most of you would be familiar with StatCoder and their flagship products which make Evaluation & Management (E&M) coding easy for doctors. There are other free software from StatCoder which help in the management of hyperlipdemia, hypertension, cardiac disease and diabetes which I am also sure many of you also use. I [...]