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August 26, 2003

 
PaLMS in your Palm

Professor Leslie Burnett, director of Australia's Pacific Laboratory Medicine Services (PaLMS), recently e-mailed me about a PDA application they have developed. LabInfo contains their entire laboratory database of pathology tests. The database includes information on patient preparation, optimal specimen collection, reference ranges, artifacts, and some interpretative information, although this is not its primary role. There are two versions available, one optimised for medical professionals (the "doctor" version) and a second (smaller) version optimised for allied health use (the "collector" version). Both versions are free. The databases are updated monthly, and there are built-in safeguards against using out-of-date information.

Since PaLMS is based in Sydney, Australia, the information in LabInfo is expressed in S.I. units, and some of the contact details (e.g., phone numbers for contacting laboratory staff) are relevant only to their local geographic area. However, their intention in designing the program was to make it useful for clinical staff even if they were not local to Australia.
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