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August 30, 2005

 
Free Version of Epocrates Rx Now Available for Mac

Today, Epocrates announced that an AutoUpdating version of the Epocrates Rx® FREE drug and formulary reference is now available for customers using Mac OS X version 10.2 and above.

The Epocrates Rx drug reference includes more than 3,300 drug monographs and more than 30 MedMath calculators. You can also add free healthplan formularies, Epocrates MedTools® applications, and the MobileCME™ on-the-go learning system.
posted by Kent 5:44 PM | |

August 29, 2005

 
Docs Prefer Mobile Phones to Pagers

I can relate to this. If I could get my local hospital to support SMS messaging to my Treo 650, I could ditch my pager once and for all.

A British medical journal study found that physicians equipped with mobile phones responded more quickly to a call than they had with pagers. Nine physicians at St. Mary's Hospital in London took part in the six-week study last year, titled "Handheld computers and the 21st Century Surgical Team: A Pilot Study."

The physicians were given mobile phones that also had a PDA operating system to use during the study. The study found that physicians had a lower failure of response rate when compared with their use of the hospital's existing paging technology. The study also found that the combined technology helped reduce physicians' nervousness toward technology.

The results have been published in BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making, a London-based, peer-reviewed medical journal. A larger-scale trial of the technologies is being planned.

Source: Mobile Health Data
posted by Kent 9:07 PM | |

 
Drag'n'tooth for Mac OS X

Drag'n'tooth is a Mac OS X utility for installing files onto your Palm OS device via Bluetooth. If you have a Bluetooth-enabled Mac and a Bluetooth-enabled Palm OS device, Drag'n'tooth is a must have. Unfortunately, I couldn't test it out myself, as my three-year-old iBook doesn't support Bluetooth.

To use, simply drag a file to the Drag'n'tooth dock icon, and it will instantly be transferred to your PDA. No special software is required on the handheld side. Files can be transferred to RAM or directly onto an expansion card.

Drag'n'tooth is inexpensive (about ten bucks) shareware.
posted by Kent 9:00 PM | |

August 16, 2005

 
New Skyscape Cardiology Titles

Skyscape has released two new cardiology applications, the "Dx/Rx: Coronary Thrombosis" and "Dx/Rx: Heart Failure" clinical reference guides. The applications are based on the books of the same title, which are published by Jones and Bartlett Publishers.
posted by Kent 8:35 AM | |

 
DermMeister Released

DermMeister (see the July 12 entry) has been released! DermMeister requires the iSilo document reader (version 4.0 or later) and 6 MB of free space in RAM or on an expansion card. Best of all, it's free!
posted by Kent 8:26 AM | |

August 10, 2005

 
ePocrates Dx Supports Memory Cards

According to this entry on ePocrates' online help, you can now install ePocrates Dx (not Rx, sorry) to an expansion card.

If you are a Palm/Windows user with Dx or Essentials, you can now store Dx on your memory card. To do this, you will need to re-download the latest version of the software from your My Account page and choose the Memory Card as the location for Dx. To do this, go to www.epocrates.com and click on My Account. Sign in if needed and then look for the download button next to DX or Essentials. When you click it you will go to a new page that allows you to choose Expanded Memory or Main Memory as the destination for DX. Follow the remaining on screen instructions to save the file to your desktop and continue with the installation as you normally would. Our server will automatically place the files on the card during the first AutoUpdate.

Currently, our applications are not compatible with the Sony memory stick or memory expansion cards on a Pocket PC mobile device.

Good news for Treo owners.
posted by Kent 5:01 PM | |

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