Them ol’ Palm Medical Programmes
Deven wrote in:
Any chance a program like PediDose makes it to Web OS. I have used it for years on palm os devices and as as Emergency Physician, it has saved some lives with have all the Resus drugs on one page.
Hi Deven. Thanks for sending in Feedback. It’s not only PediDose but lots of other great PalmOS medical software which are still so useful and could do with a port to WebOS. A list such as our Best Free Medical PDA software list gives you an idea of what could be re-programmed in WebOS. An important point is many of these little apps have been programmed by Physician enthusiasts and hobbyists. Unless they themselves have WebOS devices, it is unlikely that one will see WebOS versions of their software anytime soon. You might want to consider emailing the original author of the software and ask nicely if this is the case for PediDOse.
The good news is at least with Classic for WebOS, you can run many of the legacy PalmOS software. True Classic is not free and will cost you $30 but it enables you to run truly useful PalmOS software and have the best of both worlds.
I expect to get my hands on a GSM Palm Pre in the next 1-2 weeks. I’m sure as the WebOS platform becomes more popular and more books on programming in this platform become available, there will be more Physician coders WebOS. The WebOS platform is new and I think we have to be patient.
i think the future is the bluetooth installations...
I, for one, would be interested in collaborating on building such an apps for WebOS. I’m not a coder, but, as a pediatrician, have built formulae for this kind of thing into an EMR.
Hi Dan. Your comment came thru this time!
If you have experience in HTML and CSS coding that would be a great first step. Next is to learn some Javascript and you are good to go!
If you are keen, head over to :
1) http://developer.palm.com and register, download the WebOS SDK
2) http://www.w3schools.com/jS/default.asp for very good JS tutorials
Once everything is in place I could help (with my limited knowledge) and we can post in PreCentral in this forum and get others to collaborate as well:
http://forums.precentral.net/palmdoc-apps/
Hi PalmDoc, just wonder how would u get a GSM Palm Pre in “2~3Weeks” in malaysia, through Expansys?Planning to get one too when unlocked UK version available here
Yup Expansys. Item status now “shipped”. The only unlocked GSM Pre is the German QWERZY kb one. UK versions are locked afaik though there has been reported success with Turbo Sim unlocker.
ic, thank you for your info.can’t wait for your review about Pre