 | When the doctor and patient don’t speak the same language, the quality of medical care is jeopardized - language barriers hamper diagnosis and adversely affect the success of treatment!
arpadi® was developed for just this reason:
as a mobile interpreter for Palm OS and Pocket PC, arpadi® enables medically sound, instantaneous communication between doctors and patients of different language affiliations. |
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bcc: Mobile Resource Guide is a comprehensive,
inclusive list of companies that provide solutions across a number of
application areas in both the inpatient and outpatient settings. In
addition to providing the 'long-list' of companies in the mobile space,
the Guide presents bcc:'s mobile market segmentation to help users
quickly filter through the 160+ vendors listed, and the 'Free Download' section helps clinicians choose among 125+ Free Resources to add mobility to their workflow.
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 | Immediate and complete information access for staff and patients at a Norwegian hospital provides a look into the future of health care. |
You might not expect to find one of the most IT-integrated commercial structures in the world north of the 63rd parallel, but that is exactly what is happening as St. Olavs Hospital nears its first stage of completion in Trondheim on the northwestern coast of Norway. In this new university hospital, patient treatment, research, and teaching are planned as integrated functions.
For the healthcare market, HP is repositioning its iPAQ Pocket PC from being classified as a PDA to now as a “Medical Digital Assistant (MDA).” This handheld device will have extended functionalities, such that when the wireless network is accessed, updated patient information will be available on the MDA and any new notes will be automatically updated.
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Largest Insurer in State of New Jersey Encourages Physician Adoption of
Electronic Prescribing
Allscripts Healthcare Solutions, the leading provider of clinical
software, connectivity and information solutions that physicians use to improve
healthcare today announced a relationship with Horizon Healthcare Services,
Inc., the state's largest health insurer. This relationship is the beginning of
a unique initiative to encourage more physicians to use electronic prescribing
and take the first steps to full clinical automation. |
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the next two years, Allscripts will target hundreds of physicians
within the Horizon Healthcare Services, Inc. (Horizon) network to offer
the Allscripts' award-winning TouchScript(TM) e-prescribing solution.
Horizon, as part of its Horizon Health Connect $5 million technology
initiative, will provide selected physicians with Allscripts software,
wireless network components from Cisco Systems, handheld Pocket PC
devices from Hewlett Packard and high-speed Internet connections, all
at no cost. Based on the results of this initiative, Horizon expects
additional physicians to implement TouchScript and, in some cases,
implement the entire TouchChart(TM) Electronic Health Record.
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Unbound Medicine announces the release of Medicine Central™. Designed especially for internists, primary care providers and trainees, Unbound’s new resource combines premier reference content with powerful literature management tools—all easily accessible using a personal digital assistant (PDA), a wireless device, or the Web.
With Medicine Central, clinicians configure their own comprehensive suite of disease, drug, and diagnostic test information by first selecting a core medical text—5-Minute Clinical Consult, Harrison’s Manual of Medicine, or CURRENT CONSULT Medicine. Other highly regarded titles from McGraw-Hill, Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, and F.A. Davis complete the package. Medicine Central enhances these premier titles through Unbound’s award-winning platform, which includes personalized journal tracking and literature searching. |  |
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About one third of physicians at Genesys Health System are using PDAs to access patient data while rounding at Genesys Regional Medical Center, Grand Blanc. The delivery system implemented the PDA Clinical Window application from New Age Systems Inc., Evansville, Ind., to enable mobile access to the information. |
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 | PatientKeeper, the leading provider of mobile software solutions for healthcare, today announced it won first place in the TEPR 2005 Award, in the category of Mobile Applications for Use in Healthcare. Breadth of functionality, simplicity and flexibility of design, and interoperability and integration capabilities were presented as key distinctions for PatientKeeper. |
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Medical Pocket PC Shop is an on-device software catalog that simplifies the process of finding, installing and purchasing software applications and games for Pocket PC phones and devices. InHand provides a new avenue -- the phone itself -- for accessing mobile software downloads. The catalog is an easy-to-use system that allows Pocket PC users to access available software. Each application has several details you can view on the device, including name, short description and price. From within each product description, you can choose to try or buy the application. Product delivery and purchasing are completed directly via the phone so access to a desktop computer is not necessary. Click Read more for more details on our $1 software promotion! | |
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With its extensive content and custom-designed user interface, Schwartz
Principles of Surgery, PDA Edition enables you quick access to the
answers you need to make the right diagnosis or initiate a treatment.
Interlinked content, a notes feature, and custom bookmarks make this
more than a reference application. Schwartz Principles of Surgery has
developed into the ultimate PDA tool for anyone enrolled in a surgical
clerkship or surgical residency. |
Just The Facts In Emergency Medicine, PDA Edition
is the perfect tool to prepare for in-service or licensing exams, for
recertification, or for use as a clinical refresher. This version
effectively condenses Tintinalli's Emergency Medicine, 5, for a concise, yet comprehensive review. Standardized,
bulleted format stresses key points of epidemiology, pathophysiology,
clinical features, diagnosis and differential, and ED care and disposition.
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Unbound Medicine, a leading provider of information resources for healthcare providers, announced today that its gateway product, Unbound Central, has been adopted by five leading medical institutions. Through Unbound Central the University of Pennsylvania, New York University, MedStar Health, University of Muenster, and University of Washington will connect directly to their users’ Personal Digital Assistants (PDAs), wireless devices, and the Web. Working with Unbound Medicine, the five libraries have developed institutionally branded gateways to deliver local news, journal alerts, and MEDLINE literature searching to patrons’ handheld or wireless devices. The libraries are meeting patron content needs by selecting from Unbound Central’s leading disease, drug, test, and procedure titles from publishing partners such as McGraw-Hill, Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, F.A. Davis, and the BMJ Publishing Group.
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