Archive for April, 2009

Will doctors stick by Palm?

This is what Mobihealthnews is asking. Although they report Twice as many physicians use iPhones in 2009 there are some of us holding back due to the short comings of the iPhone - lack of real keyboard, non-replaceable battery, lack of multi-tasking, inability to run Palm applications. On the other hand Apple is addressing software [...]

Blogroll update

It’s been awhile since I’ve updated the list but I’ve just added Dr. Joe Kim’s Medical Smartphone blog to the list in the right side bar. As Joe says there are a lot of Kims out there (probably half the Korean population are Kims? ). Indeed the most well known of the Dr. Kim [...]

IV Meds for the iPhone

IV Meds by Deep Pocket series is an application which helps nurses, paramedics and others calculate doses and drip rates for IV medications.
The application was created from the increase demand from nurses to have an IV medication book for titration medications. The application contains multiple IV medication doses and concentrations. It also contains a large [...]

How important is Desktop sync to you?

I’ve dabbled with Cloud syncing, yet in my everyday practice, I still depend on syncing my device with Outlook on my desktop via USB. With the upcoming Palm Pre, it seems there won’t be any Desktop sync as Palm expects you to sync over the Internet with Exchange server or some other “Cloud” service like [...]

The Pre gets a Garnet emulator!

This is good news for medical PDA users who are thinking of getting a Palm Pre. At the recent Web 2.0 Expo in San Francisco, Palm announced that MotionApps will come out with an emulator for legacy Palm apps.
This means that medical users can potentially run tons of applications like Medcalc, Statcoder apps, and many [...]