UE: PDAs in Oncology
Another user experience in PA. John Thomson MD shares
I have had a TX for about two years now and couldn’t practice without it. I have a personal database of my last 3545 patinets with their diagnosis, demographics and therapy. I can always refresh knowledge of a patient at a tumor conference from my Palm or easily contact a patient to update them on test results, etc. The time to imput the data is paid back many times. I also have Epocrates on the device which saves me a great deal of time each day in looking up drugs and doses and well as lab value normals and many other pieces of information. I have a full medical text book and oncology text book on the device as well as the usual schedule needs. How does anyone practice medicine without a full featured PDA like the T/X?
My patient database comes to about that number as well (3352 from Agendus). Like John I keep basic info including Diagnosis, Hospital RN, treatment dates and logs (using Agendus Log to Notes feature) and it’s all so easy to look up quickly from your PDA. Drug info and drug interaction is a must too I agree. I hope John uses Haemoncrules 
How does anyone practice medicine without a full featured PDA like the T/X? Er.. simple, we use a Treo!
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About the author, Alan: Alan Teh is a Malaysian Physician who specialises in Hematology-Oncology & Stem cell Transplantation. He has been using Palm PDAs since 1997 and is absolutely reliant on them. His current PDA is a Palm Pre and is a strong advocate of the webOS platform, Palm's latest operating system. Caught the blogging bug in 2004 and has been addicted ever since… |
I use Skyscape AJCC on the Palm Tx which is an invaluable oncology resource..