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Articles

General Handheld/Mobile Information

  1. pdf The Best Programs for Your Handheld (Medical Economics)
  2. Handheld Computer-based Decision Support Reduces Patient Length of Stay and Antibiotic Prescribing in Critical Care (Journal of the American Medical Informatics Assoc.)
  3. pdf Handheld Medical Software: Is It Changing Practice? (Clinical Oncology News)
  4. Mobile Data Could Help Medicine (Research Information)
  5. Mobile Health Systems — A Brief Overview (ZDNet)
  6. Study: More Doctors Going Mobile (Channel Web)
  7. Use and Perceived Benefits of Handheld Computer-based Clinical References (Jourmal of the American Informatics Association)
  8. Using Wireless Technology in Healthcare (ZDNet)
  9. What's in Your Pocket? (Minnesota Medicine)
  10. Wireless Healthcare — Bluetooth and Beyond (ZDNet)

Smartphones

  1. How Smartphones Work (How Stuff Works)
  2. How to Choose a Smartphone (PC Today)
  3. pdf Knowledge on call: Finding new uses for smartphones (American Medical News)
  4. pdf Smartphone Computing Moving Into Docs' Offices (iHealthbeat)
  5. Smart Phone Wars: Apple vs. RIM vs. …the Android Operating System?(ChangeWave)
  6. Top 10 Smart Phones (PC World)

PDAs

  1. The Future's In Your Hands: Preparing tomorrow's clinicians means teaching them how to make the most of PDAs (Healthcare Informatics)
  2. How PDAs are changing the clinic and classroom (The New Physician — American Medical Student Assoc.)
  3. PDA Buyer's Guide (Best Buy)
  4. PDAs Transform Health Care (Pharmacy Times)
  5. Physicians' use of the personal digital assistant (PDA) in clinical decision making (Journal of the Medical Library Assoc)
  6. Survey Reports PDAs Enhance Patient Care (PDA Cortex)
  7. The Top PDA Resources for Family Physicians (AAFP)
  8. Utilization of Personal Digital Assistants (PDAS) by Pediatric and Emergency Medicine Residents (Journal of Emergency Medicine)
  9. Who’s Using PDA’s? Estimates of PDA use by health care providers: a systematic review of surveys (Journal of Medical Internet Research)

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Websites & Blogs

  1. DoctorsGadgets
  2. medGadget — internet journal of emerging medical technologies
  3. Pediatrics On Hand — from the Children’s National Medical Center, a guide to pediatric handheld devices and how to incorporate PDAs into pediatricians practices.
  4. Pediatric PDA Blog — Everything about the use of PDAs in clinical pediatrics
  5. Tech Medicine
  6. The Palmdoc Chronicles — The latest Medical PDA News and Updates

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Multimedia

  1. Essentials for Mobile Computing in Healthcare (ZDNet)
  2. House Calls for Health Care Professionals: Mobile Devices
  3. Epocrates CTO Bob Quinn and PocketPC magazine editor Dr. Ed Zabrek discuss the new devices and software solutions.

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  4. Insidermedicine: Watch Allan Platt PA-C, author of "Evidence-Based Medicine for PDAs: A Guide for Practice," discuss the clinical uses of personal digital assistants.

    Mr. Platt is a clinical instructor in the Department of Family and Preventive Medicine Physician Assistant Program at the Emory School of Medicine, and also serves as the program coordinator and a physician’s assistant at the Georgia Comprehensive Sickle Cell Center.
  5. KUSI News in San Diego: How Epocrates Helps Avoid Medical Errors

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  6. Listen to Dr. Dan Diamond discuss smartphone adoption on Reach MD, XM Radio.

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  7. Podcast: Mobile Technology and Patient Safety

    Harvard researcher Dr. Rothschild and Epocrates’ very own Dr. Fang discuss the results of a breakthrough survey on the perceived use and benefits of mobile clinical references on patient safety.

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Books

  1. Evidence-Based Medicine for PDAs (Allan F. Platt, PA)
  2. The Doctor's PDA and Smartphone Handbook (Mohammed Al-Ubaydli, MD)

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