PDA/Pocket PC Resources

Handheld Computer Resources
Build a Palm/Pocket PC from Scratch

Handheld Computer Resources

• @Hand Pocket Clinician Medical Library
• ePocrates web site - Contains the Free Drug Referrence "qRx" for the Palm OS.
• Handheld Med
• Healthy Palmpilot
• MedCalc 3000 - Palm version of the popular Internet medical calculator
• Palm Gear
• Palm Home Page
• PDA-MD
• Ectopic Brain
• Palm Source
• Medical Toolbox Software
• MD Grad
  

Build a Palm/Pocket PC from Scratch

-By Christine Kelso, MD, MPH

For: residents, faculty, and medical students at OHSU

These are my top recommendations. If you download all of these items you will have all of the essentials plus a few fun extras. Note – all software is FREE unless noted.

1. Epocrates or Micromedex:
   1. www.epocrates.com - ePocrates Rx is free EXCEPT that they sell our aggregate info (not personal info) to pharmaceutical companies. Also recommend downloading associated software such as MDRD calc.
   2. Micromedex for the PDA. OHSU customer number (required for download). Call the library for assistance.
2. Hopkins antibiotic guide: www.hopkins-abxguide.org – free antibiotic guide with excellent, user-friendly format that is frequently updated.
3. MD Predict (an EBM guide for topics such as PE, perioperative risk, Ranson’s criteria, etc): http://www.mssm.edu/medicine/general-medicine/ebm/CPR/palm/cprPalm1.html
4. TIMI – calculate a TIMI score and look up guidelines for ACS on the fly: www.tFriday August 3, 2007e and metabolic management (free, requires iSilo): http://www.meistermed.com/isilodepot/index.htm
5. Dermmeister – Derm atlas, requires 6MB of space but excellent resource (free, requires iSilo): http://www.meistermed.com/isilodepot/index.htm
6. ECG palm brain (free but requires iSilo) – approach to ECGs with examples:
7. Eponyms (a very long list, and a fun tool): http://eponyms.net
8. MedCalc (I like this better than MedMath, the tool that comes with Epocrates): http://medcalc.med-ia.net
9. EBM calculator and tables: http://www.cebm.utoronto.ca/
10. ATP III guidelines: http://www.acponline.org/pda/clinical_references.htm
11. JNC VII guidelines: http://www.acponline.org/pda/clinical_references.htm
12. UCSF house officer handbook (free but requires iSilo):
13. USPSTF guidelines: http://www.acponline.org/pda/clinical_references.htm
14. PDAccess: Specific for OHSU. Download labs and reports from LCR. Can only download by attending of record – most useful when on the wards rather than consults. To download the software (hint – you must be on ozone – suggest downloading to a jump (usb) drive then uploading to the computer you sync your PDA with): http://ozone/itg/training/pdaccess/index.shtml
    Location of Clarinet PDAccess Synchronization Devices:
    http://ozone/itg/training/pdaccess/locations.shtml
15. www.amion.com - download schedule for the year
16. iSilo: This is a reader program which allows you to read some of the software above and much more. It is the only program currently on my PDA that I paid for ($19.99). You can get a basic version for free (doesn’t allow hyperlinks), and there is also a trial version at www.palmgear.com or www.isilo.com.