A newly released book from Sudbury, Mass.-based Jones and Bartlett Publishers offers advice for clinicians about using and buying PDAs, and related software. "The Medical Professional's Guide to Handheld Computing" also features instructions on how to use PDA-based clinical software including applications from ePocrates and Skyscape.
The book was written by Chris Helopoulos, a physician assistant and associate director of clinical education for the Barry University Physician Assistant Program, Miami. Helopoulos wrote the book based on his years of experience helping medical students use PDAs and related software in clinical care.
The book is mainly for medical students or clinicians that have never used a PDA. "Medical students should become competent on PDAs in school before they go out into a practice," he says.
Helopoulos also advises clinicians and medical students to purchase extra memory for their PDAs, because medical reference titles take up a lot of space on the mobile hardware.
The book is priced at $24.95, and is also available from Web-based book retailers, including Amazon.com and Barnes & Noble.
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