Handheld Computing Resources

• PDAs for Health Care Providers an excellent introduction to:
  • Hardware and Accessories
  • General Productivity Applications
  • Health Care: Applications / Links / Electronic Texts
  • Health Care Journal Articles: Professional Use / Patient Use
    
    
• Frequently Asked Questions and Answers regarding clinical use of Handheld Computing devices
  
  
• The 1999 Guide to Handheld and Palmtop Computing Resources for Health Care Professionals
  The guide describes over 200 medical applications for a wide range of hardware platforms such as Palm OS, Windows CE, Psion, and Newton OS.
  
  
• Medical Wizards - provides PDA software for medical professionals for both Palm and Pocket PC devices.
  
  
• Doctor's Gadgets - news, discussion, reviews, links and free software downloads for medical handhelds and gadgets.
  
  
• CollectiveMed.com PDA Center - This is a comprehensive resource for medical software available for direct download.
  
  
• Handheldmed.com is devoted to clinical handheld computing news, reviews, and informatics in medicine.
  
  
• PDAMD.com , a resource for medical-related PDA content on the Internet
  
  
• ePhysician is an easy to use, affordable tool for healthcare professionals that uses a Palm(tm) handheld computer and the Internet. It provides important medical information at your fingertips and electronic prescription and lab test ordering from anywhere.
  
  
• ePocrates qRx is a free clinical drug reference for health care professionals to use on the Palm Computer
  
  
• Allscripts
  The portable devices check for adverse drug interactions and allergies when physicians enter prescriptions and indicate whether chosen drugs are covered by patients' insurance plans. Prescriptions are then e-mailed to a pharmacy, eliminating the possibility of handwriting errors or lost prescription slips.
  
  
• iScribe specializes in PDA software that provides physicians with mobile, handheld solutions for managing key day-to-day clinical activities.  The iScribe i5000, a Palm™ OS-based system (i.e. Palm, Handspring, HandEra), allows physicians to write prescriptions, access formulary information, print legible prescriptions to hand to patients, and search for specialty-specific CPT and ICD-9 codes 
• The PPARIS System
  used by individual physicians for medication management, referral generation, formulary management, diagnostic test management, and hospital charge documentation
  
  
• MDPad
  MDPad is committed to the elimination of medical errors in the United States.
  
  
• Medical Palm - PalmPilot
  Find links associated with the medical community that provide PalmOS information, data, and software. This is a must stop for med students, doctors and health care professionals. 
  
  
• MDeverywhere formerly known as ClinEffect Systems Inc.
  
  
• The PocketClinician Medical Library
  @Hand Medical Technologies has created a variety of bundled promotional packages that promise to enable health care professionals to access important reference information.
  
  
• DoseAssist
  DoseAssist is a handheld tool designed to aid the professional clinician in making dosing decisions without being tied to a desktop computer or having to thumb through clumsy reference materials.
  
  
• AltaPoint Data Systems, L.L.C .
  You can add and edit patients, record patient encounters with billing detail, view and update appointments, add tasks, addresses, and even detailed notes. Powerful data synchronization utilities allow you to enter information on your desktop computer and your Palm organizer independently.
  
  
• Handheldmed.com's Forum .
  
  
• RNpalm
  
  
• Palmaris Medical Ltd
  
  
• Universal Tracking System for Palm OS - provides all-purpose tracking solution for Palm.
  

Articles discussing Handheld Computers and their use in Health Care

• The grass roots origin of mobile computing in nursing
  This article discusses how mobile information technology in direct patient care will take center stage in nursing informatics in the 21st century.
  
  
• A Primer on Purchasing a PDA (Personal Digital Assistant) for the Health Professional
  This a brief overview of PDA basics and short checklist has been designed to help medical students and medical faculty with the complicated research and decision making process.
  
  
• A Medical Student's View on pocketCHART from Physix
  I find pocketCHART a wonderful program with a tremendous upside but also, unfortunately, a tremendous price. To me pocketCHART succeeds in the true measure of a software program, it saves time in the long run.
  
  
• Clinical Effectiveness Data System TM Case Study at Duke University Medical Center
  In an attempt to improve efficiency at the point of care, Duke University Medical Center (DUMC) installed the Clinical Effectiveness Data System (CEDS), a software solution that automates the outpatient charge capture and documentation process at the point of care. This brief article describes a cost-benefit calculation that they made.