PDAs  (This page is presently under construction.)
A guide to locating Personal Digital Assistants information information & resources.  For additional assistance, contact the HSL Reference Dept. at 280-5138 or refdesk@creighton.edu.

Contents

• Licensed ebooks paid for by HSL/LRC
• Free resources
  • General PDA Information
  • Sources for Medical & Health Care Professionals 
  • Medical Calculators
  • Resources for Drug Information
  • Databases
  • Additional Resources

Licensed ebooks for PDA

• Thomson Clinical Xpert (formerly MobileMicromedex) -- drug information like epocrates, alternative-herbal remedies, interaction checker, disease information, and toxicology information
• eMedicine -- medical information by specialty
• PocketConsult -- medical information (especially diagnosis tools) and Mosby Drug Guide, go to FIRSTConsult and follow the link in the left navigation bar to FirstConsult handheld.
• AccessMedicine.com -- First create a personal login, install the reader software, and then you can download sections from any of the ebooks. Also provides Diagnosaurus differential diagnosis tool for medicine and surgery.

General PDA Information

Acrobat Reader for Palm OS

• Free software program to enable Palms to read PDA documents.
• http://www.adobe.com/products/acrobat/readerforpalm.html

AvantGo

• Site provides lists free software programs for Palms and Pocket PCs.
• Facilites using a PDA to receive and access information from the Web.
• http://www.Avantgo.com/

• Free site to sign up for the latest clinical abstracts and health care news to be sent directly to you.
• Works for either Palms or Pocket PCs. 
• http://www.journaltogo.com/

PDA Zone

• Site contains a answers to questions on many areas including document readers, software sites, buyers guides, portal sites, and other information related to PDA use.
• Maintained by the University of Alberta Libraries.
•  http://www.library.ualberta.ca/pdazone/index.cfm

Sources for Medical & Health Care Students & Professionals

• Contains the American College of Cardiology pocket guidelines for arrhythmias, general cardiology, surgery along with some continuing education programs.
• Designed to work with Palm & MS operating systems.  
• Provides one of the largest listing & links to PDA software & hardware.
• http://www.acc.org/clinical/palm_download.htm

• Collect EBM, practice guidelines, disease management, conference abstracts and other treatment related documents. 
• Requires download of "APPRAISOR" software to PDA
• Works with Palm & MS operating systems.
• http://www.mobilemedica.com/

Freeware Palm

• Large medical shareware site covering lab manuals, diet, and many other areas.
• Has software for Palm and other operating systems.
• http://www.freewarepalm.com/medical/labmanual.shtml

Handheldmed

• Website that offers PDA versions of medical books and programs for trial and purchase. 
• http://www.handheldmed.com/

• Searchable by diagnosis, pathogen, and antibiotic.
• Free but not currently compatable with Dell Axima or Toshiba pocket devices.
• http://hopkins-abxguide.org/

MedRules

• Clinical prediction rules for Palm OS.
• Designed for education use not decisions making regarding patient care.
• Free
• http://pbrain.hypermart.net/medrules.html

Medical Mnemonics

• Searchable site to help learn medical mnemonics and includes a clinical exam program..
• A free and nonprofit site.
• http://www.medicalmnemonics.com/

mobilePDR

• Distilled version of Physical Desk Reference for the PDA.
• Includes up-to-date approval list for prescription drugs and NIH clinical drug trial information.
• Requires registration.
• http://www.pdr.net/

• Has programs for a both physician and patients.
• Does include "pop-ups".
• http://www.freewarepalm.com/medical/mypatients.shtml

NLM Mobile

• NCBI online books
• PubMed searching
• AIDSinfo
• WISER (wireless system for emergency responders)
• http://www.nlm.nih.gov/mobile/

OEI Treatment Guidelines Implementation Tool for Palm OS

• Free clincial guidelines on overweight and obesity in adults from the NIH's National Heart, Lung, & Blood Institute
• http://hin.nhlbi.nih.gov/obgdpalm.htm

pda MD

• Site for purchasing software for MDs
• Has some information on technology and software changes and use that includes some "How-to-Guides".
• Requires registration
• http://www.pdamd.com/vertical/home.xml. 

• Lists a variety of site on general and specific topics related to PDAs
• http://educ.ahsl.arizona.edu/pda/index.htm

• Software for storage of patient information.
• http://www.patienttracker.com/download_ptpalm.htm

• PubMed® for handhelds Web site

Skyscape

• Site offers information & sale of medical PDA products and services for the health care professional.
• http://skyscape.com/index/home.aspx

STAT Cardiac Clearance

• http://www.statcoder.com/cardiac1.htm

• http://www.statcoder.com/cholesterol.htm

• http://www.statcoder.com/growthcharts.htm

PDA Page for Creighton University School of Dentistry

• Contains link to helpful web sites for dentistry.
• http://cudental.creighton.edu/HTM/PDA.htm

USMLE Board Readness Links

• Creighton site with helpful links to prepare medical students for boards
• http://medicine.creighton.edu/USMLE/medicalpda.htm

Medical Calculators

DietCalc

• http://pbrain.hypermart.net/files/dietcalc.zip

• designed to calculate relevant statistics for diagnostic, prospectives, case control studies, along with randomized control Trials . 
• This is a palm version of the Stats Calculator.
• Free and uses Palm OS
• http://www.cebm.utoronto.ca/palm/ebmcalc/

• http://www.freewarepalm.com/medical/icumath.shtml

• Use for common medical calculations
• Uses Palm OS
• Free
• http://medcalc.med-ia.net/

• http://smi-web.stanford.edu/people/pcheng/medmath/index.html

Resources For Drug Information

ePocrates 

• Offer different versions including a version that works with Griffith's 5 Minute Clinical Consult.
• Has programs for multiple operating systems.
• http://www2.epocrates.com/products/handheld_general_info.html

• http://pbrain.hypermart.net/medfiles.html

Thomson Clinical Xpert (formerly mobileMicromedex)

• Free PDA version available for the CUMC community.
• Information & sign-up available on the Micromedex page
• Access Micromedex from the HSL's Database or E-Books pages.
• http://newadonis.creighton.edu/hsl/Databases.html  

Additional Resources

Creighton Online Ministries

• Source for daily spiritual and inspirational readings.  
• http://www.creighton.edu/CollaborativeMinistry/palm.html

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