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 Posted by Saint on Tuesday January 02, 2001 @ 11:23 AM
from the palmistry dept.
PDAMD's Greg Jeansonne, MS IV has an opinion piece about why a lot more medical students and Doctors who should be carrying PDA's are not. LinuxMedNews hasn't made any 2001 predictions yet, so here's the first one: that Linux based PDA's will be a viable product this year and that it will hopefully fill the current void in open source PDA medical software. LMN's own Captain Fantastic recently formed the OpenPMToolWorks project which may help at filling that void if it generalizes to PDA's.
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Re: PDAMD: Why PDA?
by Captain Fantastic on Wednesday January 03, 2001 @ 03:21 PM
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PDAs as a supported platform for OpenPMToolWorks applications is a great idea. Will put out a call for Java/PDA application developers to make it so.
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Where is the killer app?
by Andrew P. Ho on Wednesday January 03, 2001 @ 05:57 PM
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PDAs are just not so compelling. I have a Palm PDA but I find it useless as a "medical" tool. Also, they are much more limited in capabilities compared to desktop systems. However, if they permit mobile access to critical functions, then perhaps a lot more physicians will choose to carry them. Note that many physicians don't even use their desktop computers for patient care!
Simply put, there is no "must-have" medical application on the PDA yet. I think these "eBook" applications (e.g. drugs and interactions) are useful but hardly critical for patient care.
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Squint and Believe
by SystemLoc on Thursday November 01, 2007 @ 07:14 AM
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I'm a first year medical student, and I've been browsing the PDA market, as they are recommended for third year. There are loads of very nice resources available that look to be very useful: eBooks, online, updated databases, prescribing information, test information, etc.. There are two problems keeping me from buying on this moment, though.
First, the damn screens are too small! For light reading, email, novella, and the like, the screen is fine, but to view a textbook, you need a screen nearly the size of a page in order to view text, plus pictures or diagrams. I recently saw the Sony eBook reader at Borders. It's about the size I'm looking for in a PDA.
Second, most of those online databases and resources are completely free when using a PC web terminal, however they charge for the PDA version. Do the vendors think we're stupid? I'm not paying for something that is free just to get it in a different format.
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