Biomedical PDA Resources
The following are examples of biomedical resources for PDAs, including textbooks, journal
information, and guides compiled by the D. Samuel Gottesman Library at Albert Einstein College of Medicine. The list includes freeware, shareware, and commercial products. The D. Samuel Gottesman Library does not endorse or recommend any particular PDA or PDA resource. Individuals should choose a PDA or PDA resource based on their individual needs.
Interpret arterial blood gas results. Operating System: Palm. Cost: Free. Clinical guidelines from the American College of Cardiology. Operating System: Palm. Cost: Free. Clinical tools and references for the practice of internal medicine. Operating System: Palm & PocketPC. Cost: Fee & Free. Created at John Hopkins Division of Infectious DiseasesCost: Free, need registration16 clinical books currently available. Operating System: Palm & PocketPC. Cost: Trial Version is free. A complete medical textbook fully indexed with over 2,500 topics for rapid reference. Operating System: Palm & PocketPC. Cost: Trial Version is free. An extensive source for medical PDA hardware and software on the Internet. Includes buyer's guides. Operating System: Palm & PocketPC. Cost: Fee. Calculate pediatric medication doses. Operating System: Palm. Cost: Trial Version is free. Includes over 4000 trade and generic drugs, nearly 50 drug classifications, over 1500 drug monographs and 475 commonly used combination drugs.
Operating System: Palm & PocketPC. Cost: Trial Version is free. Calculate relevant statistics for diagnostic studies, prospective studies, case control studies, and randomized control trials.. Operating System: Palm. Cost: Free. A starting point for physicians who are interested in exploring the potential of Palms in clinical practice. Includes lots of medical applications and files.
Collection of 12 regularly updated medical textbooks, the most current version of which can be updated for a year after purchase.
Operating System: Palm & PocketPC. Cost: Fee. Clinical drug database including over 2,700 drug monographs. Operating System: Palm & PocketPC. Cost: Premium Version available for a fee. Large collection of diagnostic and therapeutic manuals, drug references and medical dictionaries. Among them Harrison's, DSM-IV-TR, Herst's The Heart Manual of Cardiology, Griffith's 5 Minute Clinical Consult, etc.
Operating System: Palm & PocketPC. Cost: Fee. An award winning mobile database program that includes numerous free medical database downloads. Operating System: Palm & PocketPC. Cost: Fee. Comprehensive site with articles, software, etc. A huge number (800+ currently) of medical resources. Operating System: Palm & PocketPC. Cost: Fee & Free. Regularly updated infectious diseases reference manual for PDA. Operating System: Palm. Cost: Trial Version is free. Quick access to major evidence-based databases. Operating System: Palm & PocketPC. Cost: Trial Version is free. Adaptation of the online ABX Guide. Operating System: Palm, PocketPC & others. Cost: Free. Medical journal abstracts updated weekly from the National Library of Medicine and health-related news articles from Reuters.
Operating System: Palm & PocketPC. Cost: Free. Drug information handbooks and clinical manuals. Operating System: Palm & PocketPC. Cost: Trial Version is free. Links to guidelines from the National Guideline Clearinghouse. Operating System: Palm & PocketPC. Cost: Free. Medical calculator designed for rapid calculation of common equations used in medicine. Operating System: Palm. Cost: Free. A medical textbook on which doctors are invited to make comments, additions and improvements for the next edition. Operating System: Palm & PocketPC. Cost: Free. News, software, reviews, message boards, etc., about using PDAs in medical practice. English to Spanish translations of more than 1400 terms. Searchable. Operating System: Palm & PocketPC. Cost: Free. Medical calculator designed for rapid calculation of common equations used in adult internal medicine. Operating System: Palm. Cost: Free. Useful clinical prediction rules taken from the medical literature. For educational use only. Operating System: Palm. Cost: Free. Concise drug reference based on content from the Physician's Desk Reference, including a multidrug interaction tool and automatic updates.
Operating System: Palm & PocketPC. Cost: Free to prescribers. Test version may be installed as an Avantgo custom channel. Searches are executed after syncing. Retrieve search results by clicking on “success” link. No abstracts available.
Operating System: Palm & PocketPC. Cost: Free. News, tutorials, reviews, hardware and software related to handheld computing in medicine from the UK. NLBI Palm OS Applications and Downloads Guidelines and applications from the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute.
Operating System: Palm. Cost: Free. Mobile access to patient records including patient demographics, laboratory results, medication/allergy lists, test results, and radiology reports.
Operating System: Palm. Cost: Free. Software for tracking patient data on demand -- lab results, medication profiles, microbiology and radiology reports, allergy profiles, and clinical notes.
Operating System: Palm & PocketPC. Cost: Premium Version available for a fee. Comprehensive site with tutorials on how to set up and begin using your PDA. Includes news, feature articles, product reviews, and discussion boards.
Contains descriptions of over 550 childhood illnesses. Operating System: Palm & PocketPC. Cost: Free. Non-profit site that aims to be an objective source of pediatric handheld information. Operating System: Palm & PocketPC. Cost: Fee & Free. Comprehensive guide for issues concerning internal medicine. Operating System: PocketPC. Cost: Trial Version is free. Obstetrical calculator. Operating System: Palm. Cost: Trial Version is free. A collection of clinical reference books and a biweekly newsletter. Operating System: Palm & PocketPC. Cost: Fee. A definitive source for antimicrobial therapies. Operating System: Palm & PocketPC. Cost: Fee. Extensive portfolio of medical references for use on handheld devices. Operating System: Palm & PocketPC. Cost: Fee. Guides clinicians through the new ATP III cholesterol guidelines and calculates risk for any symptomatic coronary heart disease.
Operating System: Palm. Cost: Free. Quick access to thousands of medical terms, drug names, eponyms, procedures and protocols. Operating System: Palm & PocketPC. Cost: Trial Version is free. Help withi researching a medical question and a guide to critical appraisal of journal articles. Operating System: Palm & PocketPC. Cost: Free. An updated version of the popular pocket drug reference. Operating System: Palm. Cost: Fee Search the USDA National Nutrient Database for Standard Reference (SR), Release 15. Operating System: Palm. Cost: Free. Extensive coverage on the current management of common medical disorders. Operating System: Palm & PocketPC. Cost: Trial Version is free. Tables of contents and abstracts from select Wiley journals in scientific, technical, medical, and professional fields. Operating System: Palm & PocketPC. Cost: Free. 
