Palm PDA Guide
The resources listed here are primarily used by Palm OS PDAs.
Resources:
| About.com PDA Guide | A general guide for the new PDA user. Good for selecting a PDA and getting started. It has some general software recommendations. |
| Agendus | Suite of applications that replaces the Date Book, Address Book, To Do List, and Memos. |
| AvantGo | AvantGo is a free service that delivers thousands of mobile websites to consumers on their handheld personal digital assistants (PDAs) and smartphones. |
| Brighthand | This site offers the latest News, Reviews, Information and Prices and Discussion on handhelds and smartphones of all kinds. |
| Clinical Medicine Consult: The Clinical Medicine Series | A complete medical textbook in the palm of your hand that is rapidly accessible and packed with clinically relevant, evidence based information. Fully indexed with over 2,500 clinical topics for rapid reference. Contains detailed drug prescribing pearls and over 12,400 medical terms and conditions. Includes all the current Clinical Medical Series titles! The text has multiple cross references and hyperlinks for fast navigation. |
| Clinical Phamracology On Hand | Clinical Pharmacology is a drug information database to which the Library has a subscription. Clinical Pharmacology On Hand is the version for PDAs. It is free to the WU community. |
| CME Watch | From Internal-med.org. The Palm Pilot CME Tracking Program. Useful for : Physicians, Nurses, Respiratory Therapists....anyone who needs to attend Continuing Medical Education!! |
| DateBook6 | DateBk5 for Palm OS is the most advanced calendar application available for the platform and brings a wealth of functionality not even present in most desktop calendar programs. |
| Digital Assist | Digital Assist offers you a family of paient charting products for the Emergency department. All products feature charting on a client device with a windows-based back office and configuration component. |
| Doctor's Gadgets.com | Doctors' Gadgets covers the latest advances in personal technology for doctors. |
| Download.com's Mobile Solutions | This is the Mobile Solution category from C-Net's Download.com. On that page, there are link to download PalmOS and PocketPC software |
| Epocrates | Epocrates Student/Resident Discount Program Unique Code - washumed0607. Discount will automatically be applied in the shopping cart if you click on the link on the left. |
| Essential Evidence Plus | Essential Evidence Plus, formerly InfoPOEMs/InfoRetriever, is a powerful electronic resource packed with all of the medical evidence you need to make critical patient care decisions. |
| Eurekah.com | A Bioscience and Biomedical database. It has 2,109 pages from 167 books. From Landes Bioscience. |
| Evidence Based Medicine To Go | Evidence-Based Medicine Books. Trusted Medical texts for your PALM or Pocket PC. |
| Evidence-Based Medicine Calculator | From Mt. Sinai Hospital. EBM Calculator is designed to calculate relevant statistics for Diagnostic studies, Prospective Studies, Case Control Studies, and Randomized Control Trials (RCT). |
| Franklin Medical Publishers | Medical e-books from Franklin. Many are available for purchase to use on a handheld device. |
| Free Medical E-Books | From MemoWare, the PDA bookstore. |
| Handango | Major software and hardware vendor. |
| Handmark | Software site for all PDA devices, including smart phones. |
| Harrison's Practice for PDA | Harrison's Practice for PDA is a new resource from the expert editors of Harrison's Principles of Internal Medicine. Practical, concise answers to your clinical questions are presented in an easy-to-read format designed especially for your PDA. Topics on Diseases, Patient Approach, Tests, and Treatments are consistently organized to instantly deliver the information you need on diagnosis and management of the most common medical conditions. Navigate the database using comprehensive indexes such as Topic, Specialty and ICD-9 codes. |
| How PDAs Work | An explanation of how PDAs work from How Stuff Works.com. |
| KineticsPro | KineticsPro is a palm-based pharmacokinetic calculator that utilizes age, gender, height, weight, renal function, and diagnosis to calculate patient specific dosages of Vancomycin, Gentamicin, Tobramycin, and Amikacin. And for aminoglycosides, choose between traditional dosing and large dose extended interval dosing. |
| Lippincott, Williams and Wilkins | PDA versions of many standard texts. |
| MedCosm Software | Free medical software for the PalmOS. Includes Anatomy Hangman to help learn anatomy. |
| Medical Imaging Consultant, PDA Edition | The Medical Imaging Consultant, PDA Edition is designed for all physicians, residents, and fellows who may order diagnostic imaging studies. It provides speedy access via your handheld device to extensive information that will help to determine whether imaging examinations are necessary, based on symptoms, and which studies will generate the most information. The content includes current information for more than 350 clinical conditions within all body systems. |
| Medical Wizards | Comprehensive medical software vendor site for all medical professions. |
| OmniMD | OmniMD, the leading edge solutions for practicing physicians and clinics powerfully streamlines the complete practice workflow. With its comprehensive product modules, the OmniMD suite effectively automates all the vital processes within a practice. Acting as a single gateway it integrates the complete staff across all processes - the pharmacy, billing systems, transcription services, laboratory and the insurance company. |
| Palm | Palm OS web site. |
| Palm OS Guide from Google | Google directory for the PalmOS. |
| PalmInfocenter.com | Palm news and reviews site. |
| PatientKeeper | Software to manage patient information. |
| PC Magazine's PDA Guide and Reviews | PC Magazine's annual guide with reviews of Palm, PocketPC and Blackberry devices. |
| PDA Cortex | Fully functioning store with an extensive and detailed assortment of medical PDA software, mainly for doctors and nurses. |
| PDA Information on the Web | A list of PDA resources compiled by Taubman Medical Library at U. of Michigan. |
| PDA Medicine | This site focuses on medical students use of PDAs. From Virginia Commonwealth University School of Medicine. |
| PDA Resources | From the University of Connecticut Health Center. General PDA list of resources, with separate lists for medical and drug related resources. |
| PDA Software - Mobile Tech Reviews | Buyers guide for PDAs, smart phones, tablets, and ultralight notebook computers. |
| PDA Websites-Florida State U. College of Medicine Library | PDA Guide from Florida State University's College of Medicine Library. |
| pdaMD.com | Comprehensive site for the medical use of PDAs. It has guides, tutorials, and is a hardware and software vendor. It is a great place to get started. |
| PDAs in Health Care: Educational Sites | Provides links to educational sites on PDA topics. Hosted by the Medical University of South Carolina. |
| PDAs in Medicine | From East Carolina University. |
| PDAStreet | Vendor for all PDAs and other mobile devices. |
| Pediatrics on Hand | One of the best sites for pediatric handheld information for PDAs. |
| Pen Computer Solutions, Inc. | Company offering mobile computing development services for PalmOS and PcketPC devices. They also have developed medical software. |
| PEPID | Portable healthcare decision making software titles for physicians. |
| PUGSL - PDA Users Group of St. Louis | The PDA Users Group of St. Louis is dedicated to further the use of PDAs, particularly PalmOS and PocketPC products in the St. Louis and surrounding area in primarily the following areas: Medical, Legal, Educational and Business Uses. |
| Red Book, 27th Edition | Red Book contains current recommendations for diagnosing, treating, and preventing infectious diseases in infants, children, and adolescents. Created by the American Academy of Pediatrics Committee on Infectious Diseases in conjunction with the CDC, the FDA, and other leading institutions, with contributions by hundreds of physicians nationwide, Red Book is an essential resource for clinicians who care for children. |
| Redi-Reference | Suite of medical software. |
| Riley Kidometer | The Riley Kidometer is a quick and intuitive database of age-based normals. It was created by the staff of Riley Hospital for Children and is now available for users everywhere. |
| Sanford Guide to Antimicrobial Therapy | Medical e-books. |
| Skyscape | Skyscape in collaboration with Becker Medical Library, Washington University School of Medicine, now offers you a 25% discount on the purchase of Skyscape's medical references for PDAs. |
| STAT E&M Coder | STAT E&M Coder is a unique handheld tool that efficiently helps the motivated clinician take the guesswork out of the coding and documentation process. This versatile electronic template has been developed by a practicing physician to automate the complex HCFA 1995 or 1997 coding algorithms at the time of dictation. It counts the documentation elements, keeps score in real-time, and navigates the complex HCFA documentation rules to show the clinician exactly where they stand in terms of documenting outpatient, consult, emergency department, and inpatient visits correctly. |
| StatREF! PDA: PIER | Physician's Information and Education Resource (PIER). PIER's evidence-based disease modules provide quick access to authoritative and trusted medical information right in the palm of the clinician's hand. |
| Stedman's Medical Dictionary, 28th Edition | Stedman's Medical Dictionary, 28th edition for PDA contains more than 107,000 medical terms and definitions for healthcare professionals. This edition adds more than 5,000 new terms while maintaining the accuracy and clarity that have made it popular among medical students, physicians, educators, researchers, and medical language specialists. |
| The Merck Manual Plus Davis's Drug Guide | Combine two popular references and save! The world's most widely used manual of diseases fully integrated with an award-winning drug reference to answer your questions about diseases and treatment via PDA, Web, and Wireless. |
| TurboDoc | Turbo-Doc is an electronic medical record system designed to assist physicians and other health care workers in completing medical record tasks. |
| Unbound Medicine | PDA software and medical reference books and text are available through this vendor. Titles include Harrisons, Taber, and 5-Minute Clinical Consult. This link will provide you with a 25% discount once you add a product to the shopping cart. |
| University Palm/PDA links | List of PDA guides from Universities across the country. |
| What to look for in a handheld device | From C|Net.com. |
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