The Palmdoc Chronicles

Daniel Schwartz writes:
QxMD Software is pleased to release Pedi-STAT, a rapid iPhone reference for RNs, paramedics, physicians and other healthcare professionals caring for pediatric patients in the emergency or critical care environment.
With just a few taps, users have access to all necessary data to care for a pediatric patient in the emergent setting, including weight-based [...]

MediPDA (previously called PreMedi) the WebOS medical calculator has been submitted for approval to the Palm App catalogue. If it meets the standards required by Palm (hopefully) it will then appear at a later date in the catalogue. I hope it does for I suspect there are many Palm Pre users who are hesitant to [...]

Coming from the PalmOS platform, one didn’t really miss multi-tasking - initially anyway. You were so used to task switching but as we try to use PDA phones to juggle our lives and looking up so many things at once, I think multi-tasking is becoming quite essential.
A basic aspect is the ability to look up [...]

Here’s an interesting slideshow I came across:

Mobile Applications For Physicians
View more presentations from Ben Zipkin.

Tags: Medical, Mobile, Software

Chris writes in:

Hi, I really enjoy your site and appreciate your work. I’d like to keep up with medical journals a bit better and having them on a device like Kindle would help. But the little there is for Kindle DX does not suggest that it handles journal articles well, even the NEJM which comes [...]

@allan_marks tweeted to me Clinical Reader’s list of Top Medical iPhone Applications. The apps are separated into Free and Paid apps in UK and US flavours, and data obtained from the iTunes store. I was interested to see that Epocrates is in the US top 10 but not in the UK. Perhaps this has something [...]

eRoentgen (yes eRoentgen and not iRoentgen thank goodness - there are simply too many i-named apps out there!) is a new application for the iPhone that helps doctors order the most appropriate radiology test for their patients based on a diagnosis, sign or symptom. I couldn’t find any screenshots or reviews but I notice MacRadDoc [...]

Updated my little WebOS medical calculator this weekend. It now has 13 modules (the BSA, IBW, BMI and Lean Body weight have been consolidated into one module), better error trapping (no more NaN errors I hope!) and also an automatic Numlock which makes it easier to enter numbers.
Here’s a demo video I made which shows [...]

The iPhone Medical App Review looks like a useful site for those looking for iPhone medical applications. Many of the applications in the App store are unfortunately “Buy before you Try” rather than “Try before you Buy”. While it’s true that some apps are cheap at 99 cents, others are more costly. So instead [...]

I’ve got PreMedi, the first medical application for WebOS, up to version 0.9.3. It now has 9 modules:
* A-a gradient
* Apache II score
* Body Mass Index
* Body Surface Area
* Creatinine Clearance
* [...]