MedicalPocketPC.com -- Medical Resources for the Pocket PC

Welcome to MedicalPocketPC.com, a leading resource for medical users of the Pocket PC. We feature a thorough index of available medical software, the latest news and reviews, and discussion forums for healthcare professionals using the PocketPC to practice better handheld medicine.

Friday, March 02, 2001

Electronic Handheld Prescribing from Allscripts

"TouchWorks Professional is our point-of-care clinical productivity solution for small to mid-size physician practices. TouchWorks Professional provides easy-to-use electronic prescribing that reduces medication errors and routes prescriptions to local retail and mail order pharmacies; dictation; and charge capture. The TouchWorks Professional solution is delivered on a wireless, handheld PDA that will help physicians save time and improve the clinical and financial performance of their practice. TouchWorks Professional enables you to automate the most labor intensive, time-consuming aspects of care delivery, capturing charges, dictating notes, and writing prescriptions."
posted at 12:00 AM

Thursday, March 01, 2001

Microsoft Enterprise Case Study: Cyberonics, Inc.
"Cyberonics offers hope to people with difficult-to-treat types of epilepsy, with devices that can help control seizures through the use of small electrical currents. To make its product more cost-effective and easier to use in small clinic rooms, Cyberonics, together with ESX Engineering, designed a custom application that runs on a Pocket PC."
posted at 5:34 PM

eBooks
Here are some tips on creating your own eBook for Microsoft Reader on the Pocket PC or on your regular PC. If you would like to submit your medical eBooks to MedicalPocketPC.com, send us an email and we'll post them on the software page.

Publish your own eBooks in Microsoft Reader format on the web for free
eBookExpress will convert your .DOC, .RTF, .HTM/.HTML, XML, .TXT, .WPS, .WPD, .WRI or ASCII source files and convert them into Microsoft Reader format for use on the Pocket PC.

eBooks: Download Them, or Make Your Own!
An article from PocketPCMag.com describes how to use free software such as ReaderWorks to author and customize your own eBook.

Full Featured eBooks authoring software from Elegant Solutions Software Company
"Electric Quill is the right tool for preparing text for eBook conversion. This is the perfect companion for Overdrive's ReaderWorks. Features Include: Conversion of text to HTML, Automatic Table Of Contents generation, Automatic chapter generation, Verse formatting, Drag and Drop editing, and HTML preview."
posted at 12:20 AM

Monday, February 26, 2001

Database Development Tool - Create HTML forms from MS Access tables
"FormGen is an application development tool and code generator with main emphasis on database development. It produces nothing that you could not produce with notepad and ALOT of patience. It will create HTML files with JavaScript embedded in them. The JavaScript talks to the ADOCE database components (which exists in the operating system) by means of ActiveX objects. The idea behind DBFormGen (and DBConsole as well) is to utilize the existing database engines and JavaScript language engines and make a nice front end to them. With DBConsole and FormGen installed on your PocketPC, you can create mobile database applications without need for a compiler like Embedded VisualBasic or a database program like MicrosoftAccess."

Read about it on our Message Boards

Compact Flash Ethernet Card for only $55.95
Connect your Pocket PC to your LAN!
posted at 7:47 AM

Friday, February 23, 2001

A Plan to Send Prescriptions Electronically from the New York Times
Three companies that operate most of the nation's managed care drug plans agreed yesterday to establish a joint system to make it easier for doctors to send prescriptions to pharmacies electronically or over the Internet. The three companies — AdvancePCS, Express Scripts and the Merck-Medco unit of Merck & Company — said the system would improve patient safety by reducing mistakes and misunderstandings. They said it would also save time and money for doctors, pharmacies and health plans.

Industry experts said the standards would also be a boon to technology companies, including several start-ups, that are developing hand- held devices for ordering drugs. 'The coming together of these managed care companies will rapidly increase the deployment of hand-held devices in doctors' offices,' said Dr. Russell J. Ricci, general manager of I.B.M. Global Healthcare.
posted at 6:42 PM

Tuesday, February 20, 2001

The incredible pace of development for PocketPC's continues. Medical professionals and users in general will soon be able to enjoy the benefits of a rich multimedia environment and interactive experience in the palm of their hands. The latest from from PocketPC.com:
Macromedia Unveils Macromedia Flash Player for Microsoft Windows-powered Pocket PC
- Today's developer release of the Macromedia Flash Player for the Pocket PC Platform will enable developers to tune their content for these devices in advance of the full-featured version of the player, due later this year.
posted at 11:03 PM

Monday, February 19, 2001

Store more medical references on your Pocket PC-- 128MB CF for $119
The Kingston 128MB Compact Flash card is available for $159. Send in the $30 Kingston mail-in-rebate and use the $10 Computers4Sure coupon code "CPC00A" to get a final price of $119.

A 48MB CF is only $69 and a 160MB CF can be had for $229. Check out the deals on the right hand column.
posted at 12:52 AM

Sunday, February 18, 2001

"MedAptus is a healthcare information technology company that is empowering physicians to recapture lost time and revenue and improve compliance with insurance requirements. The MedAptus system combines wireless, handheld computing technology and seamless integration with existing scheduling, ADT and billing systems to provide an innovative application platform, one that is customized in every respect to physician workflow. The company has developed and deployed the world's first wireless, handheld charge capture system, allowing physicians to easily and accurately document diagnoses, procedures, and professional charges right at the point of care. Once reviewed and approved, captured charges are directly submitted to the billing system.
MedAptus plans to deploy a complete suite of point-of-care services, including, electronic prescribing, lab order entry and retrieval, digital dictation and transcription, residency procedure logging, clinical documentation, and healthcare content tailored to the physician's needs."

"IntraPrise Solutions, Inc. (ISI) has introduced revolutionary software, which enables physicians to dictate into any Palm PC running the Windows CE operating system --- for example, the Cassiopeia and iPAQ. ISI's MobileMD™ provides an easy-to-use, lightweight, portable device for generating clinical documents. And unlike dedicated portable voice recorders, it can also be used for accessing patient data, medical knowledge bases, physician schedules, phone numbers, and other information needed by clinicians in virtually any healthcare organization."

"InfoRetriever is the premier source of evidence-based information for clinicians It includes:

over 1000 brief synopses (200-300 words) of relevant, valid articles in the primary care literature taken from InfoPointer, our daily medical update service

850 abstracts of systematic reviews from the Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews

basic prescribing information for over 1200 drugs

over 55 clinical prediction rules such as the Ottawa Ankle Rules, Strep Score, and much more

detailed information on 100's of diagnostic tests and history and physical examination maneuvers in a handy diagnostic calculator

summaries of selected evidence-based guidelines in the public domain, including text summaries, tables, and algorithms

over 450 critical appraisals of the literature from the Journal of Family Practice POEMs feature (desktop version only)

InfoRetriever runs on desktop computers running the Windows 95/98/NT operating system and on the Pocket PC"

From Bryan Moulton at Enkidu.net:
"I thought you might be interested in what our company is doing with PocketPC devices. Small and portable, these devices are ideal for temporary or permanent use in environments where communication is important between patients and caregivers. With a variety of access methods, they can be used by a wide population of patients whose vocal communication is impaired. See www.enkidu.net for information about our line of Portable IMPACT communication devices."

From Tim Field at FieldSoftware
"We have many current customers in the medical field that use these printing products to print Pocket Word documents, emails, screenshots, and more, directly from their Pocket PC devices to infrared printers in hospitals, clinics, etc. Below is a list of our products with links to our website."

PrintPocketCE: Print Pocket Word documents with full text formatting (multiple fonts, point sizes, color, bold, italic, etc), emails, Rich Text (RTF) or Plain Text (txt) files