Josh writes in :
Garnet devices appear to be hard to come by. I was going to order 18 Tungsten E2’s for our June incoming interns in Family Medicine and Internal Medicine just like I did last year, load ‘em up with medical software, and then get them using them successfully during orientation and beyond.
But [...]
I stumbled on this interesting freebie for the iPhone - iStethoscope - which turns your iPhone into a stethoscope! You plug in normal headphones and press the iPhone 3G to the patient’s chest. The software utilizes the microphone at the bottom of the iPhone for audio input. I am highly skeptical of the audio quality [...]
After a week of experimenting with syncing my contacts and calendar with the “cloud” I think it’s been reasonably successful. My usual daily practice is to sync my Palm Centro with Palm Desktop using a traditional USB hotsync. This has worked well for me. After some minor glitches attributable to a corrupt Calendar database, I [...]
Ben wrote in to say this is pretty cool. TealOS is a flashy skin for Garnet and transforms your Palm powered Treo or Centro into something which makes you think you are running WebOS. It has the look and feel of WebOS, utilising gestures and cards (including shuffling) for launching applications. The skin gives you [...]
It seems PalmOS is officially dead. The Palm Centro will be the last device produced by Palm to run on Garnet (PalmOS version 5.x) so says Ed Colligan recently. The future is WebOS and this is what the latest PDA phone from Palm, the Palm Pre, will run on.
One of the Palm Pre’s radical changes [...]
Unbound Medicine has announced the release of its Davis’s Drug Guide for download to iPhone and iPod Touch. Davis’s Drug Guide joins the growing list of downloadable iPhone apps available now from Unbound Medicine. Bookmark Unbound on iPhone for a listing of currently available applications and what’s coming soon.
More medical apps for the iPhone in [...]
At least there’s good news for medical users. When the Pre launches, (anytime now from mid February to March gong by the rumors in the boards) expect Epocrates to be available. This bit of information comes from the just concluded Palm Investor Conference. From PreCentral:
As far as applications go, Colligan said that there are a [...]
Josh Steinberg has released EFM (electronic fetal monitor) Glossary reference v1.0:
Hi folks, in Sept ‘08, ACOG published their new guideline on electronic fetal monitoring, this is a Palm PDA version for quick easy reference, ideal for students, residents, and attendings who need to review these things occasionally.
The 9/08 guideline was not much about recommendations for [...]
Mathias and Pascal, whom we interviewed here, have announced an update to Medcalc for the iPhone, an amazing free medical calculator with tons of formulae.
The update is now available on the AppStore.
Checkout more medical apps for the iPhone in this thread in the forums
Tags: iPhone, Medcalc
Unbound Medicine has announced the release of a new edition of Taber’s Medical Dictionary for Mobile and Web. This fully integrated, multi-channel digital product offers users download support for the new 21st edition of Taber’s Medical Dictionary to a mobile device as well as 1-year access to the companion website tabers.com. Now students and clinicians [...]
i think the future is the bluetooth installations...