Archive for May, 2009

Unbound Releases 5MCC 2010 for Mobile + Web

Unbound Medicine has announced the release of the new 2010 edition of the 5-Minute Clinical Consult for Mobile + Web.
Unbound’s exclusive Mobile + Web offer supports download of 5-Minute Clinical Consult 2010 to iPhone™, BlackBerry®, Android™, Windows Mobile® and Palm® mobile devices and includes access to the completely updated website, 5MCC.com. At the website, users [...]

Sliding keyboard not for you? How about the Palm EOS?

Meet the Palm EOS, the second WebOS device from Palm, and apparent successor to the Centro. According to leaked info, it is on track for an AT&T release second half of 2009. The display is a nice 320×400 and what appeals to me is the front facing keyboard.
Doctors will want a quick way to [...]

Palm Pre vs the iPhone 3G

Wired has an interesting Side by Side comparison and Priya says with the iPhone 3.0 update anticipated this year, it is an “even contest”.
I am not so sure it’s really that even a contest as no matter how Apple tweaks the OS, it cannot make up for some features which may make the difference for [...]

Palm Pre: the count down begins

It’s official. The Palm Pre will hit the stores in the US on June 6th. It will initially be a Sprint exclusive and will be priced at $200 after a $100 mail-in rebate with 2 year contract.
Prethinking has some more details: the off contract price is $549, the SERO is a no-go and you’ll have [...]

Blackberry Epocrates Rx Pro Offer

If you purchase and activate a new BlackBerry® smartphone and register online within 14 days of purchase, you get to receive a free one year subscription for Epocrates Rx PRO (a $60 value).
Click here for more on the Blackberry Healthcare Offer
(note: US residents only, and valid till May 31st)
via Medical Smartphones

Tags: Blackberry, ePocrates

Got my hands on an iPod Touch!

Well indirectly anyway as I got my wife an iPod Touch for her birthday yesterday as a replacement for her ageing Palm T5 which she was using mainly as an ebook reader and entertainment device. I guess some might say it’s like Tim Allen in Home Improvement getting his wife a set of power tools [...]

Unbound adds Google Android support

Brian Cairy writes in to say that has Unbound has announced the availability of their best-selling medical references for handheld devices running Google’s operating system, Android™.
Combining sophisticated content designs with powerful Android-specific navigation, Unbound’s Android applications feature rapid search, easy-to-scan text, high resolution images, integrated audio, bookmarking, links to 18 million journal articles in MEDLINE, [...]

Are you accessing your EMR with your PDA phone?

I can’t right now myself as my hospital’s EMR is not fully up yet. Recently we had a round of vendor presentations and one of them was not really enthusiastic about accessing EMRs with a PDA claiming the screen is too small and that he would recommend rather rustic technologies instead like COWS (computers on [...]

Checkout

Not a utility for your shopping cart but Checkout 1.2 is a freeware Palm program which could be useful for busy residents trying to keep track of their patients
Description
Free program for checking out medicine ward patients, includes CC, primary and secondary diagnoses, meds, allergies, code status, and special instructions.
Update Description:
- Check Out now allows [...]

iPhone app: Cerebri

The blurb:
Cerebrii is an interactive neuroanatomy tool put together by a student for fellow neuroscience students and enthusiasts. Using simple controls, Cerebrii allows you to navigate through 12 functional layers of the brain and select any of the 200+ regions with a simple double-tap. A guided review mode is available to direct you through the [...]