Archive for December, 2005

Heart Doctor

Spottedin Palmgear, Heart Doctor is a new release by Island Coders Application Description Heart Doctor is a complete guide to the management of the ten most common heart problems afflicting man today. Discussions concerning the disease description, orders, diagnosis and therapeutics are presented in a most concise and comprehensive manner. Designed for physicians and patients, [...]

Upcoming plans

It’s been a quiet week for Palm Medical computing so I’d just let you know what’s up and coming my end. Vagus has written to ask me about a Palm program to calculate prognostic scores for Thyroid ca, so I told him I’d be happy to include one (MACIS) in the next version of Haemoncrules. [...]

Skyscape Expands Partnership with American College of Physicians

Press release: MARLBOROUGH, Mass. – Dec. 5, 2005 – Skyscape Inc. and the American College of Physicians (ACP) today announce an expanded partnership to transition all subscribers from the ACP PDA version of the Physicians’ Information and Education Resource (PIER) to Skyscape’s mobile platform. Under this agreement, all subscribers to the ACP version of the [...]

PDAs help reduce unnecessary Rx

Mobilehealthdata reports: A study of 334 physicians in rural Utah and Idaho found that a PDA-based clinical decision support system helped reduce the number of antibiotics prescribed for respiratory infections. The study took place in 2001-2003 and was funded by the Atlanta-based Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Results were published in a recent edition [...]

5MCC mates with Diagnosaurus

Unbound Medicine has now integrated their 5-Minute Clinical Consult 2006 product with the free PDA differential diagnosis tool, Diagnosaurus Diagnosaurus has been integrated with 5-Minute Clinical Consult 2006 to make this resource more powerful than ever! FREE with this version of 5-Minute Clinical Consult the popular Diagnosaurus contains differential diagnoses for more than 1,000 common [...]