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Brown recently joined a growing number of medical and nursing schools — including the University of Michigan, University of Texas and the UCLA School of Medicine — that require students to buy and use PDAs. Faculty and students say the technology saves time and helps them provide better care, in addition to reducing medical errors. Drug references and diagnostic programs can be stored on them, giving physicians information at their fingertips. http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060416/ap_on_he_me/apn_medical_pdas_2
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 | Unbound Medicine recently released an extensively revised Davis’s Drug Guide with Auto-Updates. It features 200 new drug monographs, 16 appendices with dose calculations and lab values, and fast navigation with 5 new indexes (for a total of 9). In addition, the new edition supports access on the Pocket PC, Palm or via the Web from your PC, Treo, BlackBerry or Smartphone. Davis’s Drug Guide now features even more drugs, nearly 5,000! In addition, you will find the most common herbal and natural products, extensive cross-linking between drugs, a bookmark tool to quickly return to critical information, and visual emphasis for high-alert drugs and life threatening side effects. Current subscribers to Davis’s Drug Guide will automatically receive this update as will subscribers to Medicine Central, Nursing Central , Anesthesia Central, and Emergency Central. |
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For more than 50 years, The Harriet Lane Handbook has been the pediatrician’s reference of choice and for good reason. Its unsurpassed diagnostic and management guidance, recommended tests, complete therapeutic information, and comprehensive drug formulary make it essential for anyone who treats children.
Completely revised and updated with new interactive flowcharts and nearly 600 integrated weight-based dosing calculators, Skyscape’s Harriet Lane Handbook sets a new standard as the essential decision support tool for anyone who treats children.
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 | Clinical Anesthesiology is a succinct overview of the basic concepts and clinical considerations essential to the modern practice of anesthesia. The ideal reference for any anesthesiologist or trainee in this area of specialty, Clinical Anesthesiology is now available in handheld form for your Palm or Pocket PC device. |
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Going Mobile: Choosing the Right Inpatient Solution (2006 Edition) bcc: Consulting applies industry-inside knowledge to develop a framework for evaluating inpatient mobile solutions. In addition to pointing out key success criteria, potential pitfalls, and key industry trends, "Going Mobile" profiles the industry's most significant and influential inpatient solution providers. |  |
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 | From now until March 12, receive 20% on Medical Imaging Consultant PDA Edition. The Medical Imaging Consultant, PDA Edition is designed for all physicians, residents, and fellows who may order diagnostic imaging studies. It provides speedy access via your handheld device to extensive information that will help to determine whether imaging examinations are necessary, based on symptoms, and which studies will generate the most information. The content includes current information for more than 350 clinical conditions within all body systems.
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Unbound Medicine released today Emergency Central, featuring the Emergency Medicine Manual. Like Medicine Central, Nursing Central and Anesthesia Central, Emergency Central is available for download to Palm OS and Pocket PC devices and accessible via the Web from your PC, Treo, BlackBerry or Smartphone.
Emergency Central provides quick answers to clinical questions through the integration of disease, drug and test information. Emergency Medicine Manual is the core disease resource, a distillation of the clinical content from Tintanalli’s Emergency Medicine. The popular Diagnosaurus, Davis's Drug Guide, Pocket Guide to Diagnostic Tests around out the bundle.
For a limited time, an online test drive is available at the Emergency Medicine Central Open House
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Skyscape has released a number of new titles and updates in our software store.
Clinical Anesthesia, 5th Ed.
 This best-selling handheld reference provides instant access to the full text of the newly updated Handbook of Clinical Anesthesia. |
| Surgical Recall, 4th Ed.
 Surgical Recall is a reference for third and fourth year medical students on surgical clerkships enabling quick study and easy access in a rapid-fire Q&A format. | 2006 Lippincott’s Nursing Drug Guide
 Updated for 2006 with more than 800 complete drug entries, this PDA reference provides instant access to all the drug information nurses need in day-to-day practice. |
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 | US Biomedical Information Systems announces its Sale of the Week for the week of February 27th – March 5th. Visit the USBMIS Store to purchase Thompson’s Rheumatology PDA Reference for the Pocket PC or Palm OS now and save 20%.
The application focuses on rheumatology, and is written for all physicians, including internists, primary care practitioners, residents, and medical students. With interlinked content and a custom-designed user interface, Thompson’s Rheumatology PDA Reference provides the most convenient and accurate way to stay up-to-date with the constantly evolving knowledge of rheumatologic disease and the expanding therapeutic armamentarium used for treatment.
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Provides convenient, take-anywhere access to current, unbiased, accurate, and reliable drug information and interactions. 