Doctor PDA The Smart PDA

The only personal encounter I've had with PDAs in medicine was half a decade ago. My cousin, then studying to become an ophthalmologist, read his textbooks with a Palm Vx. He was only able to store one book, limited by the unit's 8MB internal memory. And the serial port meant uploading took forever. Fast forward to today. Facilitated by the increasing capabilities of handhelds, apostles of Hippocrates have found lots of [...] Read More


The Tricorder's Ancestor? The Smart PDA

We may be closer to Star Trek's vision of medicine. Doctor "Bones" McCoy used a tricorder to instantly discover a patient's afflictions-then reached for the appropriate gadget to cure it instantly. Such a high level of medical technology is still a long way off, but Global Care Quest's ICIS mobile service offers "patient information on handheld mobile devices and smartphones." The program can access patients' medical info, and realtime data coming [...] Read More


Medscape: Free drug App for the iPhone The Smart PDA

WebMD has released a very useful medical application for the iPhone, which comes with a database of drugs, a drug interaction tool and a directory of physicians and pharmacies. Here are the features: It comes with a drug database that contains information of over 6,000 generic and brand name drugs It comes with a collection of hundreds of herbal medicines, supplements and antidotes. It comes with a drug interaction tool that shows interactions [...] Read More


Linux for Doctors HackITLinux

Healthcare Informatics (you can call it Biomedical Informatics or simply Medical Informatics) is a research area that interests me. This new linux distribution, Linux for Clinics, is a welcome addition to the arsenal of open source applications for medical practitioners. Based on Ubuntu, Linux for Clinics is now on alpha version and ready for testing. Here's an excerpt from their website: The Linux For Clinics (LFC) Project consists of a team [...] Read More


Littman Bluetooth Stethoscope is the Tech I Expect my Doctor to Have The Gadgets Weblog

I want my doctor to have nothing but the coolest, fastest, and best technology when it comes to keeping me healthy. The Littmann 3200 Bluetooth Stethoscope is a necessary update to an outdated piece of equipment that seems long overdue. When my doctor is listening to my heart or looking for pneumonia, I want them to have super-powers, but this high-tech stethoscope will do in a pinch. Designed just like a [...] Read More