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June 28, 2003

 
Medical Palm Review

I recently ran across a new blog entitled The Medical Palm Review, an online newsletter hosted by the Technology Application Unit at Mount Sinai Hospital in Toronto, Ontario. The monthly newsletter contains useful pointers for health care workers who want tools, not just gizmos.
posted by Kent 9:23 PM | |

 
Handheld Geriatrics

The Geripalm Project is a graduate research project looking at the implementation and evaluation of handheld devices with content oriented towards geriatricians and family physicians in rural populations who deal regularly with elderly patients. A poster presentation in PDF format can be downloaded here.
posted by Kent 9:17 PM | |

June 26, 2003

 
JNC-7 Clinical Guidelines At Your Fingertips

Just when we were getting our patients to their blood pressure goals, they moved the bar again! Aargh. As always, the JNC's latest recommendations are far from straightforward. Put them in the palm of your hand with this handy and free quick reference from the folks at Redi-Reference. It's viewable using their free reader application, or iSilo, if you already have it.
posted by Kent 7:03 PM | |

 
Tarascon Pharmacopoeia Updated

A new version of the Tarascon Pharmacopoeia is now available. The program is still free while in beta testing. Definitely worth checking out if you haven't already done so.
posted by Kent 5:33 PM | |

June 23, 2003

 
Post-Exposure Prophylaxis

Dr. Rob Spence's PalmPEP, a PDA-based post-exposure prophylaxis tool for needlesticks is now available here.
posted by Kent 6:44 PM | |

June 19, 2003

 
St. Mary's Health System Chooses Palm Tungsten C Handhelds for Physicians

Extending the reach of its physicians, Indiana-based St. Mary's Health System recently purchased 130 Palm Tungsten C handhelds. St. Mary's plans to expand that number to more than 200 handhelds by August of this year.

The Tungsten C handheld and MercuryMD's MData Enterprise System provide fast access to patient information, such as lab results, medications, vital signs, EKG reports, and other critical data elements. By accessing real-time patient information at the point of care, rather than manually searching for paper-based charts or records, physicians not only save valuable time, but also improve the quality of care."
posted by Kent 11:53 PM | |

 
A Picture Is Worth A Thousand Words

Don't be too quick to dismiss PDAs with built-in digital cameras as toys. According to this article from the BBC News, camera-equipped handhelds such as Palm's Zire 71, Sony's NX series, and Handspring's forthcoming Treo 600 may actually be useful to physicians despite their relatively low resolution.
posted by Kent 11:45 PM | |

June 13, 2003

 
What's On Your PDA?

In this month's issue of MD Net Guide, three physicians discuss how they use their PDAs on a daily basis.
posted by Kent 3:21 PM | |

June 10, 2003

 
ePocrates Goes To Harvard

Harvard Medical School has signed an agreement with ePocrates to provide its medical students with subscriptions to ePocrates Rx Pro, a handheld clinical reference guide.

Harvard Medical School equires all incoming medical students to have a handheld device. John Halamka, MD, chief information officer of Harvard Medical School and two of its affiliated hospitals, said he approached ePocrates as a result of frequent requests for ePocrates Rx Pro from 3rd and 4th year medical students. Dr. Halamka was not surprised by the student demand for help with prescribing. "As a doctor myself, I remember the amount of effort required to master medication dosing. ePocrates provides accurate, up-to-date information about therapeutics, drug/drug interactions and age-related dosing."

ePocrates Rx Pro will be presented to students in "Transition to Clinical Training." This two-day course orients medical students to the realities of clinical practice, including the use of point-of-care information to reduce medication errors. ePocrates information will also be consulted by tutors and students at patients' bedsides and in classroom settings, in discussions about dosing, drug interactions and patient safety.

Source: PDAStreet
posted by Kent 1:59 PM | |

 
Monkeypox Info at your Fingertips

Skyscape is helping battle Monkeypox by making its .911 reference, which includes its popular Outlines in Clinical Medicine/Medical Emergencies (OCM/911), Centers for Disease Control (CDC) Spotlight information and The Medical Letter biologic, chemical and nuclear content, available to medical professionals at no charge at www.skyscape.com/911.

Skyscape's .911 gives medical practitioners vital information at their fingertips, including all CDC-Monkeypox health alerts, Monkeypox history and causes, signs and symptoms, and treatment and prevention. In addition, .911 provides interim infection control and exposure management guidance in the healthcare and community setting for patients with possible monkeypox virus infections. .911 also gives interim guidance for veterinarians and pet owners on Monkeypox infections in animals.

.911 is a resource that incorporates content from Outlines in Clinical Medicine/Medical Emergencies, The Medical Letter and the CDC to provide medical professionals with the latest information on Monkeypox and other potentially rapidly-spreading diseases such as SARS, West Nile virus, lyme disease as well as bio-terrorism agents such as Anthrax and Smallpox. .911 serves as a reference for diagnosis to treatments to available vaccines, and provides doctors, nurses, EMTs and other medical professionals information on these new threats via their handheld computers at the point of care.
posted by Kent 1:52 PM | |

June 9, 2003

 
Skyscape Brings Cancer Titles to PDAs

Skyscape today announced that three leading oncology references are now available for PDAs as a result of two new partnerships with Jones and Bartlett and Springer-Verlag.

In a new partnership with Jones and Bartlett, Skyscape has made both the Physician's Cancer Chemotherapy Drug Manual and Oncology Nursing Drug Handbook available on PDAs. In an expanded partnership with Springer-Verlag, Skyscape has made the AJCC Cancer Staging Handbook, Sixth Edition, prepared by the American Joint Committee on Cancer, available for handhelds.
posted by Kent 3:15 PM | |

June 4, 2003

 
Skyscape to Publish Pearson Prentice Hall Medical Texts for PDAs

Skyscape has contracted with Pearson Prentice Hall to bring nearly 50 medical and nursing references to the Skyscape handheld platform. In the initial stages of this eight-year partnership, Skyscape will introduce some of the most popular Pearson Prentice Hall titles to PDAs, such as Photoguide for Nursing Skills; Prentice Hall Nursing Drug Guide 2003; Drug Guide for Paramedics; Pocket Reference for EMT-B First Responder; Hogan Series/Prentice Hall Reviews and Rationales in Nursing.
posted by Kent 5:52 PM | |

 
Palm Acquires Handspring

The boards of directors of Palm, Inc. (Nasdaq: PALM) and Handspring, Inc. (Nasdaq: HAND) today announced that they each have unanimously approved a definitive agreement for Palm to acquire Handspring to form a new, stronger market leader in mobile computing and communications. The Palm board also gave final approval for the spin-off of PalmSource, Inc.

The merged company will be led by Todd Bradley, Palm Solutions Group president and chief executive officer, who will continue as president and chief executive officer, and will be structured around two business units: handheld computing solutions, led by Ken Wirt, currently senior vice president, sales and marketing, for Palm Solutions; and smartphone solutions, to be led by Ed Colligan, current president and chief operating officer for Handspring. Jeff Hawkins, Handspring chairman and chief product officer, will become chief technology officer for the merged company.

"Palm and Handspring share a vision that handheld computers and smartphones have the potential to redefine the landscape of personal computing," said Donna Dubinsky, chief executive officer of Handspring. "This merger brings together the best teams in the industry, and strengthens us to realize this vision." Dubinsky will serve on the board of the merged company.

See the press release for full details.
posted by Kent 8:47 AM | |

June 2, 2003

 
Sanford Guide Updated

The Sanford Guide to Antimicrobial Therapy 2003 PDA Edition is now available. The new edition features auto-update, a more streamlined installation/registration process, and may be installed from CD or via download. For more information or to order your copy please go to http://www.sanfordguide.com.
posted by Kent 6:15 PM | |

 
MD Consult Mobilizes Medical Information

St. Louis based MD Consult, a source of clinical information within the medical community, now has a mobile computing option, MDC Mobile.

MDC Mobile is included at no additional charge as part of the MD Consult service, which works with 285,000 paid users at more than 1,700 health care institutions around the world. According to the company, it provides medical professionals with the ability to search MD Consult, daily feeds of medical news, weekly drug updates, and access to the latest abstracts from hundreds of medical journals via the "Mobile Library" function. The program also provides access to other separately purchased handheld/PDA clinical reference products from the Elsevier family (the medical information provider behind MD Consult), including the Harriet Lane Handbook and the new Osler Medical Handbook.

Source: PDAStreet
posted by Kent 1:19 PM | |

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