USE OF THE PDA IN CASE STUDIES

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Palm 101 2006 or Feeding and Care of your PDA

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Objectives

• To review palm basics
• Discuss the some practical applications of palm
  in clinical practice in ensuring patient safety
• Review some of the palm-based programs that may
  be helpful for the new and experienced user

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PDA BASICS

• HERE ARE SOME THINGS YOU MAY OR MAY NOT HAVE
  FIGURED OUT

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You need to be careful where you leave your
technology
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PDA

• Outline
• Installing desk top CD PDA program
• Navigation
• PDA functions Business card, address, notes,
  calendars, to do list
• Deleting program
• Copying to card
• Beaming
• Web browing

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1. Installing desktop CD and PDA program

• Basic information Address, etc enter on your
  computer and then synchronize to pda

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1. Installing desk top CD PDA program
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Hit done and synchronize and you will have the
application on your PDA!
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Go to edit, select all If you want to delete, go
to edit again and delete
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Now all your to do List is Gone IF IT WAS ONLY
THAT EASY!!!
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To Add a to do, hit the bottom of the screen and
this box will come up Remember you need to
synchronize to get everything off your computer
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Memo can also be edited from the Palm desktop on
your computer
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You can add photos from your computer into the
desktop and synchronize them to your handheld.
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To free up memory, You need to go to the time on
the left upper corner Delete an application you
do not want or Copy to card Then Delete the
application from the handheld
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Downloading an application from the Internet to
your hand-held is usually a three-step process

• Download the application to your desktop
  computer.
• Expand the application files, if necessary You
  may need to unzip the download using free trial
  of win zip
• Transfer the appropriate files from your desktop
  to your hand-held computer.

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Loading the Program to your PDA

• 1. You need to download into a file on your
  computer.
• I suggest two files
• One for zipped applications
• One for straight palm applications
• 2. Install the program using the desktop palm
  program

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Loading the Program to your PDA II

• 3. Add the program to your install tool
• 4. Then hotsync
• For programs requiring a database, add the
  database first.
• On the second hotsync, add the software.

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2. Navigating around

• Use of the buttons
• Scrolling

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3. PDA Function

• Organizing applicatios
• Address book
• Notes
• Calendar
• To do List
• Customizing buttons

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Organize Applications

• Similar to putting things in a folder on your
  computer
• Makes it easier to locate things.
• Go to your home page
• Tap on Menu.
• When the drop-down list appears, tap on Category.
  
• You will see a list of programs and available
  folders.
• Name your folder
• Use the drop-down lists to assign applications to
  categories.
• You can edit or change by selecting "Edit
  Categories ..." from the bottom of the list of
  categories.
• When you're done, click the Home icon again.
• You can look in the drop down menu on the upper
  right hand corner for where your applications are

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Address Book

• Change font
• Make note
• Make a business card
• Go to Address
• Hit New
• Add your name and pertinent information
• Then go to address edit on the left hand corner
• Hit the drop down menu at the top
• Go to select your business card.
• Beam this to your friends

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Date Book

• Enter regularly occurring appointments in your
  date book
• Link date book with address book
• Pick the event you want to link with phone
  number.
• Put your cursor on the event
• Go to left corner where date is it.
• Hit the date
• Go to Options
• Go to Phone look up
• To put a note on the event, go back to date and
  hit it
• Hit record and you will be able to add notes or
  beam it..

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Palm Uses

• Copy and paste files to the memo pad
• A single memo holds approximately 800 words or
  4KB
• Keep current in your field
• Journals to go-free
• Can load word, powerpoint document into documents
  to go

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Customize Buttons

• To customize a button, go to your home page
• Tap on Prefs
• Tap on the inverted triangle in the top
  right-hand corner
• A drop-down list will appear.
• Tap on Buttons and select the icon you want to
  use by tapping on the arrow next to it.
• This will give you a drop-down list of programs.
• Assign a program to the icon you've chosen.

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PDA

• Deleting programs
• Copying to a card
• Cannot copy certain programs to card
• Experiment
• Beaming exercise

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PDA

• Databases
• Software
• Freeware
• Software that costs money

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Document readers for PDA

• Acrobat Reader for Mobile Devices - free download
  - read pdf documents on your PDA
• Documents to Go - use Word, Excel and PowerPoint
  files on your Palm.
• Handstory - view documents, images, memos, and
  e-books - for Palm OS.
• iSilo - document reader for Palm OS handhelds.

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Document readers for PDA

• MobiPocket Reader - for downloading and reading
  books and websites.
• Teal Software (data bases manager)
  httpwww.tealpoint.com
• Needed for asthma guidelines
• DDH software (HanDbase database manager)
  http//www.ddhsoftware.com
• Palm Reader - free download - allows you to read
  books on your handheld.
• WordSmith - Palm word processing

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HIPPA Compliance

• Must need password
• Automatically timed lock out
• Encrypt files containing patient information
• Use remote access to disable missing devices

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Palm Uses

• Protect your PDA with a password
• HIPPA regulations
• To choose a password, tap on the Security icon on
  your home page, then Assign Password.
• To mark a memo or other record as private, tap
  Details for that record and then tap the box
  labeled private.
• A check mark will appear.
• Once you have selected a password and clicked the
  Hide button in Security, entries marked private
  will not be accessible without a password.

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Tips for Palms

• Visit www.Palm.com frequently
• Do you know how to reset your PDA
• For warm or hard reset, go to
• www.palm.com/support/helpnotes/hardware/resets.htm
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• For latest downloads for your palm (patches)
• http//www.palmone.com/us/support/downloads/
• http//www.palmone.com/us/support/software/

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Palm applications

• What applications may be useful for your
  practice?
• See Sheet

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Evidence-based Practice and PDA

• Wireless
• Access to Internet via palm
• Point of service care
• VirusScan wireless www.networkassociates.com
• Symantec antivirus www.symantec.com/sav

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Drug Applications

• Micromedex
• Lexidrugs (drug reference) http//www.lexi.com
• Mosby drug references http//www.skyscape.com
• ePocrates htttp//www.ePocrates.com
• ePocrates pro is 59 dollars
• Regular epocrates is free
• They collect data on what you look up.

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Skyscape

• Please go to www.skyscape.com/promotionand enter
  "cusn" for the promotion code (the quotation
  marks are not needed.), and click on Submit.
• Continue with your shopping. You will see the
  25 discount applied in the shopping cart during
  checkout.
• The discounts do NOT apply to value packages,
  Constellations, PocketMedicine titles or
  hardware.

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Newest applications for pda

• ICIS PocketPACS (Global Care Quest, Inc.)
• Advanced viewing application
• take images from virtually any Picture Archiving
  and Communication Systems (PACS)
• Send it to a handheld device or mobile smartphone
  via wireless Internet or high-speed cellular
  phone network.
• The system displays and manipulates chest X-rays,
  bone X-rays, CT scans, MRI scans, and most other
  medical imaging modalities.

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Palm-based Support Systems

• http//www.Journalstogo.com
• http//www.infopoems.com
• http//www.FIRSTConsult.com
• Diagonosaurus

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First time Getting started information

• Helopoulos, C. (2004). The Medical Professionals
  Guide to Handheld Computing. Boston Jones and
  Barlett
• Ectopic Brain http//pbrain.hypermart.net/basics
  .html
• PDAMD.com http//www.PDAmd.com/vertical/home.xml
• Handango-first-timers http//www.handango.com
• Not so common problems
• http//www.geocities.com/Heartland/Acres/3216/palm
  probs.htm
• Nursing journal
• http//www.rnpalm.com