PDA Resources   Medical Resources | Coding, EBM, Medical Calculators, Others Featured Sites – freely available through the Health Sciences Library to LUMC/SSOM faculty, staff and students. MobileMicromedex – Four clinical databases, by Micromedex: drug information, alternative medicine information, acute care information, toxicology information; follow link from main Micromedex page to mobileMicromedex. (Palm OS and Pocket PC) POCKETConsult – PDA component of MDConsult, includes Mosby’s Drug Consult, citations and abstracts from over 400 journals, news and drug updates, 20 medical calculators; allows users to initiate MDConsult searches and store results. (Users must establish personal account in MDConsult to access POCKETConsult; follow MyPDA link from main MDConsult page.) (Palm OS and Pocket PC) General PDA Resources – These sites each provide a variety of resource for PDAs: hardware, software, and accessories; many also provide software reviews and PDA news. (Palm OS and Pocket PC) Handango Palm Boulevard PDAStreet.com Tutorials PDAMD.com– User guide on downloading and installing PDA software. (Palm or Pocket PC) Medical PDA Resources and Software Sites ACP's PDA Portal – American College of Physicians’ PDA page; includes various documents for PDAs as well as their decision-support tool, PIER. (Palm OS and Pocket PC) AvantGo – Free service allowing users to retrieve and store Internet information on their PDA (users must create free, individual account); includes several medical information sources. (Palm OS and Pocket PC) CollectiveMed.com – Information on PDAs and software; contents include free medical software, medical PDA resources, PDA buyer’s guide, information of PDA use in nursing. (Palm OS and Pocket PC) ebm2go – Provider of both free and for-purchase evidence-based medicine applications for PDAs. (Palm OS and Pocket PC) Ectopic Brain – Self styled “starting point for physicians who are interested in exploring the potential of Palm handheld computers in clinical practice.” (Palm OS) Eurekah.com – Online publishing resource Bioscience and Biomedicine; subscription required.(Palm OS and Pocket PC) Handheldmed – Provider of popular, free Patient Tracker program, as well as other for-purchase medical PDA e-books and applications. (Palm OS and Pocket PC) Handheld Recommendations, Dalhousie University Faculty of Medicine – Developed for health professionals, this site makes recommendations for handheld hardware and software; includes a comparison of Palm and Pocket PC operating software. (Palm or Pocket PC) Healthcare Information Management Systems Society (HIMSS) Handheld Guide – Offers healthcare professionals guidance on a variety of PDA topics including typical PDA uses in a clinical environment, buying guides to hardware and software, and a discussion of PDAs in a wireless networking environment. (Palm or Pocket PC) Healthy PalmPilot – Healthcare resource index for PDAs, provides reviews of various medical applications.  (Palm OS) JournalToGo – Delivers “latest abstracts and clinical news” to your handheld device; information delivered is customized by user preferences. (Palm or Pocket PC) MDtool.com – Web site’s PDA page rovides reviews of medical software for PDAs, PDA news, and a buying guide. (Palm OS and Pocket PC) Medical Productivity Software from Palm Blvd. – various free- and shareware medical applications for PDA.  (Palm OS and Pocket PC) Medical Software for PDAs guide – PDA information for healthcare community; includes news about PDA resources, PDA users forum, links to recommended software. (Palm OS and Pocket PC) Meds PDA – Medical PDA software for purchase.  (Palm OS and Pocket PC) PDA Cortex – Online resource for PDA use with Medicine, Nursing and other healthcare settings; includes a database of listservers, a help center, and a list of reviewed freeware and for-purchase PDA applications. (Palm OS and Pocket PC) pdaMD.com– Comprehensive guide to PDAs for the healthcare professional, including reviews, news, columns, buyers guide, and also sells PDA hardware and software.  (Palm OS and Pocket PC) Coding ICD-9 Coding Tools From Family Practice Management – Provided by the American Academy of Family Physicians. (Palm OS) StatCoder.com – Evaluation & Management, coding, and clinical productivity software; includes some freeware. (Palm OS) Evidence-Based Medicine Evidence-based Medicine reference tool – PDA formatted files, by Duke University Medical Center Library.  (Palm OS or Pocket PC) University of Toronto Centre for Evidence-based Medicine – Follow the Handhelds link for several EBM PDA resources.  (Palm OS and Pocket PC) Medical Calculators MedCalc – A medical calculator “designed for rapid calculation of common equations used in clinical medicine (including anesthesiology, pediatrics, emergency, intensive care and internal medicine).”  (Palm OS) Obesity Education Initiative (OEI) Treatment Guidelines Implementation Tool – by the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute. (Palm OS and Pocket PC) Practice Guidelines, Decision Tools and Other Resources Diagnosaurus – free differential diagnosis program for PDAs, with over 1,000 differential diagnoses. (Palm or Pocket PC) MedRules – Clinical prediction rules; popular tool, though currently not updated. (Palm OS) ImmunizationEd.org – Immunization schedules for children and adults, produced by the Group on Immunization Education of the Society of Teachers of Family Medicine. (Palm OS and Pocket PC) MedicalMnemonics.com - A free, non-profit, online searchable database of medical mnemonics to help remember the important details. NHLBI Palm OS Applications - decision tools from the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute.