Useful Web Sites for Palm OS
Joel Buchanan, MD Medical Portals: PDAMD - www.pdamd.com- A very useful site, with product reviews, updates, applications, original research on clinical use of PDAs. Large collection of medical documents. Online Document Converter allows conversion of desktop documents onto a PDA. These documents can be made available online to other subscribers to PDAMD.com. Medical Piloteer web ring - nav.webring.yahoo.com/hub?list&ring=medpilot This is list of 62 medical sites related to the Palm! Peripheral Brain - pbrain.hypermart.net/ Contains annotated list of links to medical software for Palm OS. Medical Software, Commercial Collective Med PDA Center - www.collectivemed.com/pda/ Handheldmed – www.handheldmed.com
HandHeldMed Titles: Healthnotes Clinical Essentials The Merck Manual Davis Guide to IV Medications, 3rd edition The 5 Minute Pediatric Consult Red Book 2000 The Gastroenterology Resident Pocket Survival Guide The EKG Pocket Survival Guide A Pocketful of Prevention The Physician's Drug Handbook 5 Minute Clinical Consult 2000 Harrison's Principles of Internal Medicine 14e Companion Handbook Principles of Neurology Companion Handbook The Common Symptom Guide 4e Principles of Critical Care 2e Companion Handbook DeGowin & DeGowin's Diagnostic Examination 6th ed. Cline: Emergency Medicine: A Comprehensive Study Guide 4e Companion Handbook
Skyscape – www.skyscape.com
Skyscape Lexidrugs 5 Minute Clinical Consult 5 Minute Emergency Medical Consult
Franklin – www.franklin.com
Franklin Titles 2001 PDR AnCCDrugs Apothecarium (with Lexidrugs and 5MCC) The Medical Letter Handbook of Adverse Drug Reactions Griffith's 5 Minute Clinical Consult Harrison's Principles of Internal Medicine IDBook 2000 (Lexi-Comp) Washington Manual of Medical Therapeutics
Medical Shareware Health Palm Pilot - www.healthypalmpilot.com – More than 603 documents and programs available. Mostly shareware. Some commercial. General Palm Sites: Gadgeteer Palm Site - www.the-gadgeteer.com/palmos.html – Best site for hardware and software reviews Palm Info Center – www.palminfocenter.com – Good source for news related to Palm OS hardware and software.
Medical Applications –
Drug Programs Epocrates qRx 4.0 (free): Very functional drug program, includes FDA pregnancy category, costs, and interactions. www.epocrates.com Tarascon’s Pocket Pharmacopoeia (free). All the drug information you’re used to getting in your pocketbook, free and updated periodically. (www.tarascon.com; also available via www.medscape.com) Epocrates qID (free). Alternative to Sanford; easy-to-use antimicrobial reference cross-referenced by site of infection and bug. www.epocrates.com Lexidrugs ($64.95). Commercial drug database, integrated with Skyscape’s 5Minute Clinical Consult. www.skyscape.com Physicians’ Desk Reference ($199.95 for Visor module; $129.95 for download for Palm). A lot less bulky than the book version. Available as a Handspring module or downloadable from www.franklin.com. More text information and references than the other drug programs Medical Letter Handbook of Drug Interactions ($79.95 download for Palm; $99.95 Springboard module). Complete, referenced guide to dual and multiple drug interactions. Much richer than ePocrates or Tarascon for interactions. Clinical References Five-Minute Clinical Consult ($64.95) – From Skyscape. Covers more than 1000 clinical topics. Easy to use and fast. www.skyscape.com Harrison’s Principles of Internal Medicine ($79.95). This is the pocket version of Harrison’s available as a Handspring module or downloadable from the website for Palm devices. Not quite as intuitive as 5-M CC. www.franklin.com Washington Manual of Medical Therapeutics ($99.95) The familiar Little, Brown manual now in a Handspring module or downloadable from
www.franklin.com
American College of Cardiology Infoguides (free). Algorithms for treatment of common cardiac conditions. www.acc.org
Medical Utilities MedCalc (Free). Very useful program containing such diverse formulas as BMI, A-a gradients, FENa, calculation of pregnancy due dates.
http://netxperience.org/medcalc/
ABG Pro (Free): gives complete analysis of blood gases. www.stacworks.com PregCalc ($10-20). Excellent obstetric calculator. www.thenar.com Ranson (Free) Calculates mortality for acute pancreatitis www.thenar.com
Other Useful Medical Applications Medical Eponyms. list of over 1,100 common and obscure medical eponyms http://eponyms.net
General Applications for Palm OS
Document Readers – Read larger documents than allowed on the MemoPad. TealDoc (Shareware, $16.95) – A full featured document reader, including beaming, embedded images, screen rotation. www.tealpoint.com ISilo (Free) – Converts web pages into iSilo format for reading on the go. Includes links and images. www.iSilo.com Database – Create and edit database files. Keep track of large lists which can be sorted, beamed or printed later. A number of medical files exist for download for each different format. HanDBase (Shareware, $24.99) – www.ddhsoftware.com ThinkDB (Shareware, $39.95) – One of the easiest to use. www.thinkingbytes.com Jfile – (Shareware, $24.95) – A large number of medical files in this format. www.land-j.com DbNow ($29.99) – Share your database with multiple users. Includes a desktop version for seamless syncing. www.pocketexpress.com