PDAs

Health Professions Education Conference features 'Headspace Theater,' serious gaming, PDAs

Improving patient care with PDA-using nursing students in clinical placements, using simulation to teach police about mental illness, enlisting video games to improve analytical and psychomotor skills, and piloting new simulation techniques for myth-busting in advanced pain management courses are ...

InfoLogix Selected by Hilo Medical Center for Multi-Year Engagement to Deliver 'Wireless as a Service'

...ss network throughout the entire hospital -- from wireless workstations in the ICU and Emergency departments, to all patient rooms, mobile devices and pdas -- and secure access to patient information accessible to all caregivers, whether onsite or remote. By enabling the infrastructure to be fina...

MedAptus' Charge Capture Technology Deployed at Leading Manhattan Cardiovascular Practice

...CVS, one of the most highly respected cardiovascular care programs in the nation, are currently using MedAptus' Practice Plus Edition on both cellular pdas and web-enabled workstations. The MedAptus software is utilized for the capture of outpatient charges at the group's main office as well as nearby reg...

25 Clinical Abstracts at National Conference Spotlight Clinical Utility of Somanetics INVOS System in Neonates

...he body. Studies are exploring how cerebral/somatic oximetry via the INVOS System may potentially be used to help detect oxygen deficits indicative of pdas and to help determine whether surgical or drug intervention is required. Another study examined four drugs, commonly used in the NICU to manage ...

PDAs, more education help doctors follow cholesterol treatment guidelines

...researchers randomly assigned the participating practices into two groups. One group of physicians received the ATP III-focused intervention including pdas and the other group received an intervention which focused more on a guideline for high blood pressure. All providers received education about both gu...

MIT project uses personal digital assistants to track TB data

...n Lima, Peru, the researchers found that equipping health care workers with pdas to record data dropped the average time for patients' test results to reach...for this purpose. When the workers return to their office, they sync up the pdas with their computers. "The doctors get what they want, the administrator...

Wake Up Your Relationship With a Good Night in Bed This Valentine's Day

...room feels more like an office than a place to sleep. Solution: Your bedroom should only be used for sleep and sex. Keep work, laptops, pdas and televisions out of the bedroom. This creates a much more relaxing and romantic atmosphere, and will give you both a better night's s...

AGA Medical Receives Japanese Approval for AMPLATZER(R) Duct Occluder

...006. All medical devices in Japan must receive reimbursement approval prior to marketing of the product. The ADO is intended for the closure of pdas larger than 4 millimeters, which represent approximately 30 percent of total PDA defects. Uniquely shaped to achieve consistent, effective closure, th...

Littmann and Heine Stethoscopes Now Available from ORSupply.com

...which enables recording, storage, and playback capabilities. Physicians can utilize DSP functions to transfer recorded sounds to compatible computers, pdas and other Littmann stethoscopes . In addition to high-end stethoscopes from Littman, ORSupply.com now sells economically-priced physical stethos...

Children's National Experts Presenting at American Academy of Pediatrics Conference

... Topics range from bullying to incorporating pdas in medicine Boston (Vocus) October 10, 2008 -- Several pediatric experts from Children's National Medical Center will be ...

PDAs in Medical Technology

Monitoring Patient Glucose Levels: New Advances in software make it easier

...e, and a PDA version known as Pocket CompassTM, which was cleared for use in June, 2002 by the FDA. The pocket compass software, designed for use with pdas using a Palm OS, tracks glucose trends by storing and analyzing up to 1,000 blood glucose readings. Patients can use the infrared technology built int...

PDAs in Medical Products

Clinical Xpert™ PDA Medical Reference and Decision-Support Tool

Description:... The Thomson Clinical Xpert™ for pdas is a new medical reference and decision-support tool. The Thomson Clinical Xpert puts authoritative drug, disease and laboratory information instantly...
Company:Thomson Micromedex

2005 Edition of Geriatrics At Your Fingertips (PDA Version)

Description:... most common to elderly people. Updated annually. The complete content is available on the GAYF web site, where versions for Pocket PC- and Palm-based pdas are also available for download....
Company:USBMIS Inc.

HealthMatics EMR Electronic Medical Record

Description:...employs leading, cut-of-the-edge technology including Microsoft Windows 2000 & Oracle; web-enabled options & wireless devices such as handheld PCs and pdas to deliver industry-standard platforms....
Company:A⁴ Health Systems

PDAs in Medical Dictionary

Pda

... computer, also known as a palmtop computer. Newer pdas commonly have color screens and audio capabilities...DA's , Blackberry's, Razr & Treo Units ... pdas - Reviews and Tips About PDAs, Handheld Computers,...nials ... Official site for the iPAQ Pocket PC pdas and calculators for business, home, or home office...

PDAs in Biological News

Radiation, nanotechnology, health care and more

...ermine the level of radiation exposure and treatment steps. This type of life-saving information can be used on personal communication devices such as pdas so usage can be in nearly any environment. Additionally, in a special session running all day Wednesday, July 16, and continuing into Thursday morn...

PDAs in Biological Technology

Choice Comes To PDAs

For a very long stretch, unless you dropped your PDA on hard pavement or put it through the wash, there really was no reason to upgrade to a new one. Barring a few bells and whistles intended to attract the enterprise volume buyer, PDAs offered little in the way of new styling or functionality for ...

Monterey Spine and Joint Deploys WebLOQ ePrivacy Solution for HIPAA Compliant Health Information Exchange

...e reporting. WebLOQ's total privacy technology resides behind any standard email client and works with any hardware or operating system-including many pdas and smartphones-making sensitive email, documents and identities completely invisible to hackers, spammers, phishers and data loss. All sensitive do...

New Wireless ID Skin Patch Technology Designed to Reduce Medical Errors

...ive solution combines disposable skin patches with RFID tags and cell phones and will allow physicians and nurses to use their cell phones or wireless pdas to update medical charts, time of patient visit, drug administration, and also be immediately warned about possible drug interactions, prior to drug d...

The Changing Face of Work (and Play)

...on of an enterprise IT department. And while there are some major enterprise deployments of Palm and PocketPC devices, the majority of the millions of pdas in use today were sold one by one to people who understood that they would make easier the task of managing the data of their daily lives. The point o...

Computer Card Supports Solo Doctor

...tion into computer cards. QRS PC Cards, with integrated sensors, slide into pdas and handheld PCs. Thus, EKGCard turns off-the-shelf pdas and portable computers into 12-channel electrocardiograph heart monitors. S...

Device Computing: The Wave Is Building

...anded $12.5 million in its second round investing. The company lets computer users on WiFi networks make voice calls. The technology works with either pdas or laptops. Intel Communications Fund and Siemens Venture Capital led the financing. Intel said it participated because it sees voice as a critical ap...

Consumers Lead Tech Market Comeback

...se were the stuff of CES. Then, it was tough to find a computer company amid the noise and hoopla, and when you did they were showing first-generation pdas and racks and racks of CD-ROM titles. Now, the tables are turned. Whole halls are dedicated to the consumer application of mainstream technology. G...

Entrepreneurs Preview Liberating Technologies

...apid proliferation of Web blogs has created a new class of tools that allows users to instantly post photos, audio and text to blogs from cell phones, pdas or any browser without requiring users to understand HTML or Web design. Six Apart introduced TypePad, an automated personal publishing system that ...

Johnson Controls selects Navteq for auto navigation system

... facility management industries. Navteq, a Chicago-based company, creates digital maps for worldwide locations, covering 40 countries. It puts maps on pdas and cell phones as well as the Internet, and its systems can support voice directions. ...

Three mainstream technologies you should not ignore

...ployments are anticipated to grow in 2004. Because you're no longer disconnected as you move among locations in a WiFi world, the value of laptops and pdas to your business has grown exponentially. Wireless is taking shape as the primary way to capture, disseminate and interact with information. Wa...