I work in Telemedicine research for Dpt of the Army and we have a groupt that
is looking at many different uses for wireless technology and PDA computing
in the medical environment. We now even have a Wireless Medical working group
focused primarily on that. Reference material, drug calculators, soon patient
data entry, electronic patient records and many more are all being looked at
to make medical decisions more accurate and the patient process more
efficient. There are quite a few medical PDA sites out there doing alike and
some pretty ingenious apps available.
Larry
"Howard C. Berkowitz" wrote:
> >Palm Pilot? Except as a nifty little phone book, aren't those
> >basically useless?
>
> That's mostly what I use mine for -- that and appointments. Which
> was irritating in the hospital, because I couldn't find phone numbers
> and calling card numbers.
>
> Actually, my cardiologist uses his in ways we might want to look at
> for networking. He has it maxed out on memory, and also has some
> reference books on ROM. He can, for example, pull up drug doses and
> also check for drug interactions.
>
> It isn't hard for me to picture putting the IOS command reference,
> perhaps some lists of ports and addresses, error codes, etc. on a
> pocket-sized device.
>
> I vaguely remember someone saying they had configured one as a TFTP
> server through the serial port. Not sure how much memory you could
> put in one.
>
> On a somewhat related note, the Navy has been working with putting
> documentation on CD-ROM, and putting it in a Walkman-style player
> connected to a heads-up display. This has the advantages of reducing
> what often are tons of documentation carried on shipboard, and also
> allowing hands-free use of documentation. It's hard to turn pages
> inside a boiler. Hands-free is the next generation of hands-on.
>
> >
> >
> >>From: "Howard C. Berkowitz" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> >>Reply-To: "Howard C. Berkowitz" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> >>To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> >>Subject: My UPS is up and running
> >>Date: Fri, 16 Jun 2000 10:07:51 -0400
> >>
> >>Thanks, everyone, for the all of the expressions of concern. I am
> >>now on high-availability battery backup, with my pacemaker installed
> >>and running Heart Standby Routing Protocol. Hospital from hell, but
> >>the results seem good, and I will see the sane and computer-literate
> >>cardiologist today. He's the one that went into shock when I told
> >>him the nurses refused to let me have my Palm Pilot. His comment was
> >>that if anyone did that to him, he wasn't sure he could survive.
> >>
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