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March 22, 2006

 
Harriet Lane Handbook with New Tools for Point of Care Decision-Support

Skyscape Inc. has launched a completely updated mobile version of The Harriet Lane Handbook featuring exclusive, new interactive flowcharts, built-in medical calculators and integrated pediatric drug dosing tools.

For use on handheld PDAs and smart phones, the launch introduces "a truly unique version of The Harriet Lane Handbook that will become a new standard in point-of-care medical decision support tools for anyone who treats children," said Sandeep Shah, Skyscape Inc. founder and CEO.

For more than 50 years, The Harriet Lane Handbook has been the pediatrician's reference of choice, offering unsurpassed diagnostic and management guidance, recommended tests, and comprehensive therapeutic and drug formulary information. The new Skyscape version integrates a host of interactive tools that help ensure accurate and confident decision making at the point of care. These powerful new tools, available exclusively in the Skyscape version of the handbook, include:

• Nearly 600 built in weight-based drug dosing calculation tools. Users simply review a drug, calculate the dose and administer - all in a single step - with no need for a separate drug dosing program.
• New interactive flowcharts that transform complex algorithms and protocols from static images into dynamic step-by-step decision support tools. The innovative feature quickly and easily walks users through even the most intricate decision models.
• More than 100 full color images to illustrate and bring content to life
• Built-in medical calculators that provide instant access from within topics.
• Skyscape's patented smARTlink to easily cross-index handbook entries with any of Skyscape's other 300+ medical reference titles.

Dr. David C. Stockwell, Pediatric Critical Care Medicine, Children's National Medical Center, Washington DC, praised the new Skyscape solution for its "excellent drug calculator integrated with formulary, simple navigation, interactive algorithms/flow charts, good value and presentation of information."

Skyscape's Harriet Lane Handbook solution "could serve as an ID guide, drug reference, drug calculator, differential diagnosis guide, PALS guide, procedure manual and more," Dr. Stockwell said, having now achieved "its rightful place as the standard pediatric reference for the handheld. There is an excellent array of information and Skyscape's solution uses the handheld's capability better than any medical product (even outside of pediatrics) available."

"With Skyscape, practitioners are gaining exclusive access to the crucial resources pediatricians need to make better informed and timelier decisions at the point-of-care," Shah said. "Mobile technology is revolutionizing the medical field - enabling medical care professionals to provide better quality care for more patients while reducing the opportunity for errors."
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