| A survey conducted by MedAmerica Mutual Risk Retention Group Inc. found that its physicians were able to avoid a range of medical errors by using PDAs. The Walnut Creek, Calif.-based liability payer surveyed 224 of its insured physicians for the study, conducted throughout 2003 and 2004.
Sixty-five percent of survey respondents said they avoided dosing errors by using PDAs. Another 58% said they avoided dosing frequency errors. Further, 25% said they avoided a drug error; 24% a therapeutic error; and 18% avoided other errors. MedAmerica Mutual conducted the survey to assess the impact of its support of PDA use in clinical care. In 2001, the payer began offering its physicians PDAs and subsidies to purchase drug reference software from Epocrates Inc., San Mateo, Calif. |
Bookstein’s Medical Student’s PDA Reference is designed for all medical students, interns, and other trainees and physicians working on clinical services. It provides a streamlined well-organized source of clinically relevant medical information for your handheld device. The content includes concise discussions of 3000 diseases within all body systems. The application is a complete quick reference covering all areas of medicine, so you will never be without the answer. The PDA edition features interlinked content, a comprehensive index, useful tables, classification systems, and databases. Author Ken Bookstein, MD, of Portland, Oregon, has written four editions of this popular reference work. But it is now available for PDA for the first time! Among the other features of Bookstein’s Medical Student’s PDA Reference are: 1. Consistency in organization: each disease is presented in a logical fashion, with epidemiology, diagnostic information, radiologic and pathologic information, and approaches to treatment. 2. Nonspecific clinical presentations with focus on diagnostic workup and differential diagnoses. 3. Indications, classification, adverse reactions and mechanisms for approximately 700 pharmacologic agents. 4. Information on cytokines, hormones, autocoids, neurotransmitters, toxicology, vitamins, and nutrition. 5. Outlines of vascular anatomy and muscular insertion points. |
Prepared primarily by residents, fellows, and attending physicians, this handy guide is ideal for residents called on to do an inpatient consult, for students working on an inpatient medicine service, and for specialists seeking information on endocrinology and general internal medicine management. This PDA reference covers inpatient and outpatient approaches, symptoms and diseases, and acute and chronic problems with the same front-lines practicality as the world-famous Washington Manual® of Medical Therapeutics. Entries cover hypothalamic and pituitary disorders, thyroid disorders, adrenal disorders, gonadal disorders, disorders of bone and mineral metabolism, and disorders of fuel metabolism, including diabetes mellitus type 1 and type 2, hypoglycemia, and hyperlipidemia. Coverage of endocrine neoplasms includes MEN syndromes and carcinoid syndrome. |
| Features Information on signs and symptoms, treatment summaries, differential diagnoses, pathophysiology and clinical manifestations. |
 Medical calculator for adult ICU that uses 85 medical equations, including pulmonary, cardiology, BNP CHF nomogram, pharmacokinetic dosing, renal, electrolyte, chemistry, nutrition, TPN, perioperative risk, biostatistics, acls, apache II, unit conversions, rules of thumb, and an RPN calculator with TVM.
Updated Description: Added a drug buildup program, MDRD eGFR, a/A pO2 |
 This value-priced package contains two trusted clinical drug books, Mosby's Drug Consult, a highly trusted and up to date drug source to provide accurate prescribing, and Mosby's Drug Interaction Analyzer, which includes interactions highlighted along with courses of action, recommendations, and exceptional conditions.
This valuable software package provides convenient, take-anywhere access to current, unbiased, accurate, and reliable drug information. It contains approximately 1,000 generic drug entries and many more prescription drug products indexed by generic name, U.S. brand name, international brand name, indication, and drug class. |
| Lexi-Connect software now enables users to click on an icon on their desktop PC that brings them to the vendor's software update Web site and searches for new data.
The new information then is automatically downloaded to the PC and to all Windows Mobile-based PDAs the PC supports. PDAs that run the Palm OS operating system must be synched to receive the data after it's downloaded to the PC. Prior to this update enhancement, users had to manually install each of the vendor's clinical reference databases individually to ensure they had the most up-to-date information. The new update enhancement also enables users to link back to the Lexi-Comp home page to automatically renew their licenses for the vendor's reference systems. |
| How are healthcare organizations and providers taking advantage of the latest advances in mobile technology and preparing for the future? This webinar explores extending existing IT investments, driving adoption among physicians, and avoiding future obsolescence. PatientKeeper will review key advancements and market trends. Physicians from CHRISTUS Health (Corpus Christi, TX) and MedStar Health (Baltimore, MD) will share their personal experiences with selecting and deploying mobile healthcare solutions.
You will learn how the packaged patient management solution from PatientKeeper, palmOne, and Cingular Wireless can help you access and update clinical information as you travel from your office to one or more hospitals -- across multiple hospital information systems -- on the largest digital voice and data network in America, with the power and versatility of one of today?s most popular smartphones, the new Treo 650. |
 Ferri's Clinical Advisor 2005 provides the busy physician with a fast, efficient way to identify important clinical information about the most commonly encountered medical disorders. The PDA edition includes all diseases and disorders (615 common medical conditions), the complete differential diagnosis text (displays nearly every possible cause for 472 different signs and symptoms), a large selection of laboratory tests, Periodic Health Exam tables, and herbal product appendices—all in the palm of your hand. |
| When handheld devices hit the market, many experts predicted that physicians, even those who weren't early adopters of computers and health technology, would quickly find use for a device that seemed to fit right into their busy lives, their need to have access to information and their constant mobility.
And those predictions were correct. About 40% of practicing physicians owned a personal digital assistant in 2004, up from 19% in 2001 and more than four times greater than the overall percentage rate of consumer adoption, said Mark Bard, president of Manhattan Research LLC, a market research company in New York. But the other end of those predictions hasn't held up -- that physicians would find PDAs useful as a clinical tool. Although physician adoption of PDAs in the past four years soared for various reasons, the devices have yet to come close to being used for their fullest potential in medicine. |
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Over the past four years, the percentage of practicing physicians who have and use personal digital assistants has grown significantly, though it appeared to have stalled in 2004. Adoption rate 2001 19% 2002 30% 2003 40% 2004 40% Source: Manhattan Research LLC |
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Although many doctors use a personal digital assistant, most physicians are using PDAs for personal rather than professional use. Here are some of the applications or tasks that a PDA can help you perform in the office: * Charge capture and coding * Clinical note-taking * Electronic prescribing * Medical calculators * Medical reference * Patient record access * Patient scheduling * Pharmaceutical reference * Telephone numbers and addresses of patients, consultants and pharmacies * Test ordering and lab results |
 Features:
- Keep Track of your CME Hours on your Palm - This program automatically Adds and summarizes Total CME Hours |
| I am a second year medical student from Canada. Before medical school, I graduated from pharmacy where I first was exposed to a palm IIIXE. The minute I saw epocrates and how easy it was to look up drugs, I knew I needed to get one. Since that I have had the Palm IIIXE, then a Sony PEG415 (high-res B&W), then Tungsten T (great device but all buttons froze so it was warrantied), then Tungsten T3 (amazing device) w/ 256Mb SD.
I do not use epocrates anymore. There are far better resources out there. For a drug resource, I rely almost entirely on Lexi-drugs and the other Lexi-comp programs. I use these programs most often: 1. Isilo- great for all the texts you can find on the net; also very useful for capturing web pages with isiloX 2. Lexi-comp package- Lexi-drugs (Canadian drug names and easiest to find answer quickly), interact (best interaction program out there), 5MCC (great for med school and likely afterwards to get a quick briefing on a particular disease) 3. Stedman’s Medical dictionary- most thorough dictionary and very useful for a medical student 4. Eponyms- great for looking up all the disease’s named after egotistical doctors :) and best of all it is free 5. MedCalc- great program with great interface 6. Docs to go- great program especially when used with the Palm Ultrathin keyboard. 7. Others- many skyscape programs, Sanford guide, etc. 8. Utilities- Filez, backupman, YAUC, SC-103PU scientific calculator I am still waiting for T3 LEAP driver for the palm wifi card so I can use it at the university. |
| My introduction to PDA’s came relatively late. My first PDA was the Palm Tungsten T2 with a 128 MB sd card which I bought in the famous Low Yatt Plaza in 2003. Trusty machine. I am now a senior house officer at a hospital in Christchurch, New Zealand. I work an equal mix of adult general medicine and adult general surgery.
Calculators: Medcalc. Journalclub(for all those statistics and terms related to epidemiology. Extremely useful for our monthly journal club) Organizer: Agendus Standard Edition Drug references: Epocrates Rx ver 7, MIMS (provided free to all hospital doctors , and by far the best for Australia/NZ specific drugs) BNF September 2004 (Isilo--x version) Textbooks: Harrison’s Principles of Internal Medicine Current Medical Diagnosis and Treatment 2003 Current Surgical Diagnosis and Treatment 2003 Clinical Guides: Our health board provides its own in-house manual for resident doctors. It is called ‘the blue book’(isilo) informally. Contains guidelines for various emergencies, various protocols for medications and useful contact numbers applicable to within that health department. Please don’t ask me for a copy because its copyrighted. There is also a ‘pink book’(in isilo) for us. It’s an antibiotic guideline which is updated according to the sensitivity patterns of the local microbes in Christchurch area. Tells you the most appropriate antibiotic to use for a particular condition. Very useful when treating things like community acquired pneumonia, immunodeficiency associated infections etc. Notes: Hi-note. And also starring my most recent acquisition, my IR wireless keyboard. Fun and Games: Vexed. ( I swear, I’ve never heard of some of those Beatles songs!!) Other fun: Various e-books. I use isilo format mostly, with Repligo occasionally when I get books in pdf. Repligo beats Adobe Reader, hands down. There’s a huge selection of free books (by out of copyright authors) from The Gutenberg Project Online. I’m reading Dostoyevsky’s Crime and Punishment in isilo format at the moment. Keeping up to date: I mainly read New England Journal of Medicine on my computer at home. If there’s an article I want to read some more, I save it as PDF and use Repligo to send it to my PDA. I use Highwire to get the BMJ onto my pda, but I end up reading the BMJ on the PC anyway , because Highwire doesn’t include all the interesting bits, like the funny anecdotes. Miscallaneous: Documents to Go Premium for keeping my presentations. FileZ for file management. Froggysoft’s Necktie for learning how to tie a necktie. Music: None. Video clips: None. Bluetooth: Don’t use it much , I’m afraid. GPRS is still expensive in New Zealand, and I don’t own a Bluetooth enabled phone ….yet. Bluechat is just stupid, but fun. Until your battery runs out. My hopes: Please let Palmone make a pda with wifi inbuilt! And please let there be a hospital Wifi network with electronic prescribing, electronic patient tracking, electronic investigation requests, and high speed internet for all the impoverished house-officers!! |