Archive for December, 2004

RxCalc 4.1

RxCalc 4.1 has been updated RxCalc (formerly known as Dosecalc) is an essential tool for Pediatricians. With this you can: – Easily calculate medication doses – Obtain extensive information available of each of the medications: – Work out Oral & Single-Dose Bolus Medications The new version of RxCalc is now fully compatible with the T5, [...]

User experience: Brendan Vaughan

Brendan Vaughan writes in: We are still in an age of innocence with medical handhelds. One can pull up a prognosis on a patients rash/ache/ailment at the point-of-care from a peer reviewed text, and not lose any credibility in the process – rather, I am greeted with choruses of “cool” (from the younger ones) or [...]

Clinical Hematology Oncology 2005

Pacific Primary Care has released Clinical Hematology Oncology 2005 An extensive reference text on the presentation, diagnosis, treatment and differential of Hem-Onc conditions. Topics include: cancers, Oncologic Emergencies, DVT, pulmonary embolism, the anemia’s, lead toxicity, sickle cell, prophyria, cancer syndromes & tx, blood cell abnormalities, transfusion medicine, bleeding disorders, DIC… Features: illustrations and hyperlinks. Detailed [...]

Gmail invitations up for grabs!

Just got a whole bunch of Gmail invitations – 10 to be exact. Care for one? Now here’s the deal: if you write to me telling me of your favorite Palm medical applications and how using a Palm PDA has enriched your life/made things easy etc – I’ll give out a free Gmail invite to [...]

C-Tools Pocket Pc Version Released

The Americal Cancer Society has in partnership with Alterion, released C-Tools 2.0 Beta for Pocket PC. The PalmOS beta program was launched earlier and hopefully both final versions will be release in January 2005 according to the ACS. Anyway it’s good that there are now lots of medical programs on both Palm and PPC platforms [...]

Hires from Unbound

In their latest newsletter, Unbound Medicine says their new apps support high resolution Portrait and Landscape Modes are now available for devices that support it, such as the new Palm Tungsten T5. This is great news since this means a 50% larger viewing area in one go. Skyscape had better catch up. Tags: News, Palm, [...]

Wifi for the Treo650

Why wait for palmOne to get their act together? If you have a Treo650 you can get Wifi now. I am amazed how innovative the Palm community is! Tags: Nova, Palm, Treo

New Skyscape apps

Here’s a quartet of new releases from Skyscape: EchoGuideā„¢ (The Ultimate Echo Guide) The perfect quick consult for the busy cardiologist, The Ultimate Echo Guide for PDA puts the most clinically essential information from the text manual in a convenient electronic format ideal for your handheld. Expertise is at your fingertips… * Diagnostic methods and [...]

Skweezer

We doctors are always in a hurry. Our PDAs allow us to be mobile road warriors with which we can check our email and access web pages on the go. Here’s an interesting site for those of you who access the Internet wirelessly from your PDAs: Skweezer. What’s the advantage? It compresses and formats the [...]

Accessing information

While the PDA is a handy source of information at the “point of care”, there’s only so much that you can keep on it, even with a 1GB SD Card. Yeah, Palmdoc got himself a 1 GB Kingmax Card – all for only US$89! Still, I think the way forward is to access information via [...]