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Palm Books
Sickle Cell Guidelines for Palm PDAs and other Palm resources for Health Care Providers |
Step 1 - Load AvantGo Web Browser
Go to the Avantgo software website at http://www.avantgo.com register and download the free Avantgo web browser version. Install the software on your PC and on your palm according to their instructions. Avantgo allows you to "clip" web site pages and download them to a palm connected organizer. This allows you to have ready reference material.
Step 2 - Link to the following web index pages for continual updates. After installing Avantgo and establishing a free account, go toe http://www.avantgo.com and log in. Click on My Account, then on Create Custom Channel. This allows you to put the web address of any site you wish to carry as reference material. Put in the following URL addresses:
Sickle Cell Disease In Children And Adolescents: Diagnosis, Guidelines For Comprehensive Care, And Care Paths And Protocols For Management Of Acute And Chronic Complications at http://www.scinfo.org/protchildindex.htm
New 2002 - NIH Management and of Sickle Cell Disease Fourth Edition - Now available online by clicking here at http://www.scinfo.org/nihnewcontents.htm
Set the Max size to 900, the Length page depth to 1 and refresh option to only once. This will copy the text to your palm in a way you can read it buy taping on avantgo on your palm and navigating your new palm book.
Step 4 - Link to any other websites you wish to put on your palm
E-medicine medicine textbook - http://www.emedicine.com/med/contents.htm
E-medicine - hematology at http://www.emedicine.com/med/HEMATOLOGY.htm
Merck Manual Hematology at http://www.merck.com/pubs/mmanual/section11/sec11.htm
Other helpful Programs and Links for Palms
Handheld computers in family medicine
(http://www.fammed.wisc.edu/education/res/PilotWeb.htm)
reviews the use of handheld computers, software and tips for
converting desktop documents into a handheld format.
Emory University School of Medicine Palm Page of links athttp://www.emory.edu/WHSCL/grady/inetgrp/hppda.html
PDA OPIOID CONVERSION SOFTWARE FROM JOHNS HOPKINS
- The Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center at Johns Hopkins Center for Cancer Pain Research's opioid
conversion program offers a very practical resource for all medical professionals. The free software download
is a tool designed to facilitate appropriate conversions from one opioid or route of administration to another
and is being distributed via the Cancer Center's website.
http://www.hopkinskimmelcancercenter.org/specialtycenters/hop.cfm
Jim Thompson's Palm OS Handheld Pages
(http://www.jimthompson.net/palmpda/)
Jim Thompson, MD, an emergency physician in Charlottetown, Prince Edward
Island, Canada, comments on devices, accessories, and software applications
written for the Palm OS platform.
Palm Medicine
(http://hometown.aol.com/roboh98/palm.html)
A guide to medical software and handheld sites for beginners.
ePocrates (http://www.epocrates.com) - One of the best FREE drug
databases and infection antimicrobial reference. It is 1.1 MB size
Mobile PDR for free at http://www.pdr.net/index.jsp This is for Palm OS
versions 3.0 and higher with up to 4.9MB of free PDA memory
Palm III series, Vx, VIIx, M100, M105 and M505
Handspring Visor
The 5 Minute Clinical Consult (http://www.skyscape.com) Some of the best
palm references you can buy
Free Antimicrobial Guide ABX Guide (http://www.hopkins-abxguide.org/)
The Peripheral Brain
(http://pbrain.hypermart.net/)
The resource center includes links to and brief synopses of medical software.
Handheldmed
(http://www.handheldmed.com/)
Primarily sells patient-tracking software and other software which providers can
use at the point of care.
RNpalm (http://www.rnpalm.com/) The best site for nurses and palm
applications
MDBook LLC
(http://www.collectivemed.com/pda/)
Sells handhelds and medical software, and offers industry news.
MedicalPocketPC Inc.
(http://medicalpocketpc.com/)
Offers news, reviews and discussion forums for those using PocketPC devices.
pdaMD.com
(http://www.pdamd.com/vertical/)
Offers discussion boards, tutorials and articles offering tips and reviews of
handheld devices and software applications.
PDA Verticals Corp.
(http://www.healthypalmpilot.com/)
The site, which is part of pdaMD.com, offers a mix of free and commercial
software, tutorials and discussion boards.
FreewarePalm
(http://www.freewarepalm.com/)
Free software running on the Palm OS. The site is organized under 24 categories,
including medical.
The Gadgeteer
(http://www.the-gadgeteer.com/)
Reviews of handheld devices and accessories.
Handango
(http://www.handango.com/)
Reseller of handheld devices and software.
Palm Boulevard
(http://www.palmblvd.com/)
Provides information about Palm OS computing as well as a trove of free
software, including software that users can try out and pay for later if they like it,
and demo software that developers are testing.
PalmGear
(http://palmgear.com/)
A one-stop bazaar of software, hardware, accessories, tips and industry news.
Doctor's Gadgets - This site has information for clinicians who use PDAs in their medical practice ( http://www.doctorsgadgets.com)
"Handheld computers for doctors" a text book by Dr Mohammad Al-Ubaydli http://www.handheldsfordoctors.com/book/ a tutorial at http://www.handheldsfordoctors.com/learn/ and palm book at http://www.medicalapproaches.org
Palm.com (http://www.palm.com) The main site for palm devices.