Biomedical PDA Resources
The following are examples of biomedical resources for PDAs, including
textbooks, journal information, and guides. 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.
.911
- The latest information on infectious disease outbreaks, natural disasters and more from the CDC, WHO and others.
- Operating System: Palm & Windows Mobile.
- Cost: Free.
ABGPro
- Interpret arterial blood gas results.
- Operating System: Palm.
- Cost: Free.
- AccessMedicine
- Content from e-books can be downloaded to PDA.
- Operating System: Palm & Windows Mobile.
- Cost: Free for AECOM faculty, students, staff & residents.
- ACC's
Pocket Guidelines for Your PDA
- Clinical guidelines from the American College of Cardiology.
- Operating System: Palm & Windows Mobile.
- Cost: Free.
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- ADA PDA Download
- Clinical practice recommendations from the American Diabetes Association. Requires RediReader or iSilo.
- Operating System: Palm.
- Cost: Free.
- AIDSinfo's PDA Tools
- Includes the Antiretroviral Toxicity Tool for Pocket PCs; federally-approved medical guidelines for Palm Powered or Pocket PC devices; the HIV/AIDS Glossary for Palm Powered devices.
- Operating System: Palm & Windows Mobile.
- Cost: Free.
- American College of Physicians PDA portal
- Clinical tools and references for the practice of internal medicine.
- Operating System: Palm & Windows Mobile.
- Cost: Fee & Free.
- Asthma Treatment Guidelines
- Point-of-care reference to the full Guidelines for the Diagnosis and Management of Asthma.
- Operating System: Palm.
- Cost: Free.
- ATP III
- Clinical guidelines and cholesterol management tool from the
National Cholesterol Education Program
.
- Operating System: Palm.
- Cost: Free.
- BioMedicalPDA
- More than 60 expert-authored, peer-reviewed biomedical databases.
- Operating System: Palm.
- Cost: Fee.
- C-Tools
- Contains recent information to help prevent, diagnose, and treat cancer.
- Operating System: Palm & Windows Mobile.
- Cost: Free.
- Clinical Decision-Support Tools from the eClinician Project
- A collection of guidelines and tools for PDAs and PCs on twelve clinical topics from eClinician, a project of the New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene in collaboration with the Community Health Care Association of New York State and Clinical Directors Network, Inc.
- Operating System: Palm & Windows Mobile.
- Cost: Free.
- Clinical Evidence, 2nd Edition via UCentral
- The best available evidence for the treatment of common clinical conditions.
Operating System: Palm, Windows Mobile & others.
Cost: Free for AECOM faculty, students, staff & residents.
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Clinical Pharmacology
Designed to provide timely, concise drug information and clinical reports for medical professionals and health care consumers
Operating System: Palm & Windows Mobile.
Cost: Free for AECOM faculty, students, staff & residents.
CollectiveMed
- An extensive source for medical PDA hardware and software. Includes buyer's guides.
- Operating System: Palm, Windows Mobile & others.
- Cost: Fee & Free.
- Diagnosaurus PDA Tool
- With 1000+ differential diagnoses, searchable by disease, symptom, or organ system.
Opeating System: Palm & Windows Mobile.
Cost: Free.
- Doctors Gadgets
- News, information and resources about PDAs and medical PDA software.
- Operating System: Palm, Windows Mobile & others.
- Cost: Fee & Free.
- Dorland's
Pocket Medical Dictionary
- Extensive coverage of medical terms, including 2800 new terms.
- Operating System: Palm, Windows Mobile & others.
- Cost: Trial Version is free.
- DrDrugs
- Includes 5000 trade and generic drugs, 150 drug classifications,
500 commonly used combination drugs, and over 800 drug dosing calculation tools.
- Operating System: Palm, Windows Mobile & others.
- Cost: Trial Version is free.
- EBM Calculator
- Calculate relevant statistics for diagnostic studies, prospective studies,
case control studies, and randomized control trials.
- Operating System: Palm.
- Cost: Free.
- ePocrates
- Fully integrated clinical drug database including over 3300 drug monographs.
- Operating System: Palm, Windows Mobile & others.
- Cost: Premium Version available for a fee.
- Essential Evidence Plus
- Former InfoPOEMS/InfoRetriever, a resource offering quick access to major evidence-based databases.
- Operating System: Palm & Windows Mobile.
- Cost: Trial Version is free.
- 5-Minute Clinical Consult
- Popular book covering more than 1000 clinical topics.
- Operating System: Palm, Windows Mobile.
- Cost: Trial Version is free.
- Franklin Electronic
Publishers
- Large collection of diagnostic and therapeutic manuals, drug references
and medical dictionaries.
- Operating System: Palm, Windows Mobile & others.
- Cost: Fee.
- HanDBase
- An award winning mobile database program that includes numerous free medical
database downloads.
- Operating System: Palm, Windows Mobile & others.
- Cost: Fee.
- HandHeldDoc.com
- Decision making tools to aid in management of sepsis, stroke and acute coronary syndrome.
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- Operating System: Palm & web-based.
- Cost: Free.
- Handheldmed
- Large collection of medical electronic books for handhelds.
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- Operating System: Palm, Windows Mobile & others.
- Cost: Fee.
- Harrison's
Manual of Medicine
- Best-selling internal medicine textbook providing quick answers to practical
questions.
- Operating System: Palm, Windows Mobile & others.
- Cost: Trial Version is free.
- JNC7
- A tool to implement the guidelines of the Joint National Committee
on Prevention, Detection, Evaluation, and Treatment of High Blood Pressure.
- Operating System: Palm & Windows Mobile.
- Cost: Free.
- Johns
Hopkins POC-IT ABX Guide
- Adaptation of the online antibiotic guide.
- Operating System: Palm, Windows Mobile & others.
- Cost: Tria Version is free.
- Links
to Clinical Practice Guidelines for Handheld Computers
- Links to guidelines from the National Guideline Clearinghouse.
- Operating System: Palm & Windows Mobile.
- Cost: Free.
Medical Pocket PC
- News, software, reviews, message boards, etc., about using PDAs in medical
practice.
- Medline Database on Tap
- Retrieves MEDLINE citations directly from the PDA through a wireless connection to the Internet.
- Operating System: Palm & Windows Mobile.
- Cost: Free.
- MedMath
- Medical calculator designed for rapid calculation of common equations used
in adult internal medicine.
- Operating System: Palm.
- Cost: Free.
- MedRules 3.3
- Useful clinical prediction rules taken from the medical literature. For
educational use only.
- Operating System: Palm.
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Cost: Free.
- Merck Manual, Professional Edition via UCentral
- The most widely used medical reference.
Operating System: Palm, Windows Mobile & others.
Cost: Free for AECOM
faculty, students, staff & residents.
- Mosby's Medical Drug Reference
- Information on the most commonly prescribed drugs, their side effects, interactions,
and cost of therapy.
- Operating System: Palm, Windows Mobile & others.
- Cost: Trial Version is free.
- NCBI Bookshelf
- Downloadable versions of books from the National Center for Biotechnology Information Bookshelf for any mobile device.
Cost: Free.
- NHLBI Palm OS Applications and Downloads
- Guidelines and applications from the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute.
- Operating System: Palm & Windows Mobile.
- Cost: Free.
- OEI Treatment Guidelines Implementation Tool
- Interactive program for treating obesity and overweight from the Obesity Education Initiative.
- Operating System: Palm & Windows Mobile.
- Cost: Free.
- PHQ-9
- 9-item patient health questionnaire for assessing depression, in English and Spanish.
- Operating System: Palm & Windows Mobile.
- Cost: Free.
- Patient Tracker
- Mobile access to patient records including patient demographics, laboratory
results, medication/allergy lists, test results, and radiology reports.
- Operating System: Palm & Windows Mobile.
- Cost: Fee.
- PatientKeeper
- Software for tracking patient data on demand -- lab results, medication
profiles, microbiology and radiology reports, allergy profiles, and clinical
notes.
- Operating System: Palm, Windows Mobile and others.
- Cost: Fee.
- pdaMD
- Comprehensive site with tutorials on how to set up and begin using your
PDA. Includes news, feature articles, product reviews, and discussion boards.
- Pediatrics on Hand
- Non-profit site that aims to be an objective source of pediatric handheld
information.
- Operating System: Palm & Windows Mobile.
- Cost: Fee & Free.
- Pocket Medicine -- The MGH Handbook of Internal Medicine
- Comprehensive guide for issues concerning internal medicine.
- Operating System: Palm, Windows Mobile & others.
- Cost: Trial Version is free.
- PregCalcPro
- Obstetrical calculator.
- Operating System: Palm.
- Cost: Trial Version is free.
- PubMed for handhelds Web site
- A website for searching MEDLINE with the web browser of any mobile device.
- Redi-Reference
- A collection of clinical reference books, complete with free updates for one year.
- Operating System: Palm & Windows Mobile.
- Cost: Fee.
- Sanford Guide to Antimicrobial
Therapy
- A definitive source for antimicrobial therapies.
- Operating System: Palm, Windows Mobile & others.
- Cost: Fee.
- Shots 2008
- Quick reference guide to the 2008 Childhood Immunization Schedule and the 2007-2008 Adult Immunization Schedule.
- Operating System: Palm & Windows Mobile.
- Cost: Free and fee.
- Skyscape
- Extensive portfolio of medical references for use on handheld devices.
- Operating System: Palm, Windows Mobile and others.
- Cost: Fee.
- Stat Cholesterol
- Guides clinicians through the new ATP III cholesterol guidelines and calculates
risk for any symptomatic coronary heart disease.
- Operating System: Palm.
- Cost: Free.
- Stedman's
Medical Dictionary
- Quick access to thousands of medical terms, drug names, eponyms, procedures
and protocols.
- Operating System: Palm, Windows Mobile and others.
- Cost: Trial Version is free.
- Student's Guide
to the Medical Literature on AvantGo
- Help with researching a medical question and a guide to critical appraisal
of journal articles.
- Operating System: Palm & Windows Mobile.
- Cost: Free.
- Tarascon
Pocket Pharmacopeia
- An updated version of the popular pocket drug reference.
- Operating System: Palm, Windows Mobile & others.
- Cost: Fee.
- Thomson Clinical Xpert
- An evidence-based application
that includes drug information, toxicology, news and alerts, medical calculators, laboratory tests and a disease database.
- Operating System: Palm & Windows Mobile.
- Cost: Free to prescribers.
- Ucentral
- Merck Manual and Clinical Evidence for PDAs, smart phones, Blackberries, and iPhones.
- Operating System: Palm, Windows Mobile & others.
- Cost: Free for AECOM
faculty, students, staff & residents.
- USDA
National Nutrient Database
- Search the USDA National Nutrient Database for Standard Reference.
- Operating System: Palm.
- Cost: Free.
- Washington
Manual of Medical Therapeutics
- Extensive coverage on the current management of common medical disorders.
- Operating System: Palm & Windows Mobile.
- Cost: Trial Version is free.
- WebWiser
- A simplified, PDA-friendly screen for searching the Wireless Information System for Emergency Responders (WISER) (see below).
- Wiley InterScience MobileEdition on Avantgo
- Tables of contents and abstracts from select Wiley journals in scientific,
technical, medical, and professional fields.
- Operating System: Palm & Windows Mobile.
- Cost: Free.
- Wireless Information System
for Emergency Responders (WISER)
- Designed for first responders, WISER helps to identify hazardous substances and provides health information and advice. From the National
Library of Medicine.
- Operating System: Palm & Windows Mobile.
- Cost: Free.
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