Daily Dose of Medical Knowledge – WebOS
Everyday I scour news of all sorts including regular feeds from medical information sites and journals. The most efficient way to filter this torrent of information is to use RSS or news feeds and I currently rely on Google’s Reader service (the mobile version runs very well on the Palm Pre). However you might for a change appreciate a small dose of medical information rather than being presented with massive chunks of information everyday. Imagine if a useful tip or clinical pearl were to be delivered to your handheld once a day. That would be easily digestible! Enter the Daily Dose of Medical Knowledge application for WebOS to fill this niche.
According to the blurb:
Daily Dose offers high level medical info, with references, daily. Topics range the gamut of medical knowledge, from lab tests and their uses to patient management and diagnosis. Physicians, residents, physician assistants, students, nurses, and other medical professionals can benefit from Daily Dose. Doses can be accessed for up to a week. You can also save your favorite doses to be accessed any time. *An Internet connection is required to update doses.
The WebOS version works very well over 3G. The presentation is simple and neat. If you click on the featured dose of the day, you will be presented with a pageful of information on the topic and links to references.
The software allows you to view the last 7 days worth of doses
as well as allow you to save your favorite doses (there doesn’t appear to be any limit to the number you can save). I can imagine if the list gets long, there should be a search facility to filter the item you are looking for – something Brimsoft should implement in future versions.
The content seems to be mainly Internal medicine material which would be suited to medical students, residents, primary care doctors and physicians. If anything can be done to improve the software further is perhaps the inclusion of illustrations or images to spice up the daily dose. I see also potential for Daily Doses of speciality information – oncology, O&G, paediatrics etc.
All in all a good effort and well worth the $3.99 in the App Catalog
I’d like to thank Brian of Brimsoft for the opportunity to test drive the WebOS version of Daily Dose.
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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… |
