Handheld / Mobile Devices in Healthcare

Most of the software on this list is either free or available for a minimal fee.

General Information

 

Most recently Smartphones have begun to support many of the functions of PDAs with the addition of telephone service, email, and web browsing. There are Blackberry operating system-based Smartphones, Palm operating system-based (Palm OS) PDAs and Smartphones, the iPhone and Microsoft-based Pocket PCs (Windows Mobile) made by HP, Dell and others. The result is a much wider variety of devices to choose from requiring more research on the part of the consumer.

There are websites which offer overviews of the ever changing world of handheld computing many with tutorials on getting started with your unit. Below you will find a few useful ones.
• About.com: PDA Buyer's Guide
• EnterpriseMobileToday
• howstuffworks: PDAs
• howstuffworks: BlackBerry
• iPhone
• pdaMD.com
• Pediatrics on Hand Handheld Basics
• Wikipedia: Smartphone


Hardware / Operating Systems

• Android
• BlackBerry
• iPhone
• iPod touch
• Palm (PDA)
• Smartphone
• Windows Mobile


Handheld / PDA Resources

• Anesthesiology - Pain
• Bioterrorism / Terrorism / Disaster Management
• Calculators
• Cardiology
• Decision Tools
• Dictionaries & Encyclopedias
• Drug Resources
• Emergency Medicine
• EBM: Evidence-Based Medicine
• General Medical Resources
• Lab Tests
• Nursing
• Nutrition
• Obstetrics & Gynecology
• Patient Tracking
• Pediatrics
• Psychiatry
• Radiology
• Urology  

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