Palm Workshop

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Palm Workshop

• Nancy Clark, M.Ed.
• Director of Medical Informatics Education
• FSU College of Medicine

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Objectives

• Awareness of types of medical PDA software and
  references
• Find these resources
• Download and install these resources on your PDA
• Maintain your PDA
• Use basic PDA applications

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What is a PDA

• Personal Digital Assistant
• Types
• Palm OS and WindowsCE
• Runs applications
• Stylus driven
• Connectivity
• IR beaming
• Synchronize to PC or MAC

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Why use a PDA in clinic?

• Physicians are increasingly using PDAs
• PDA training part of medical informatics
  curriculum
• Portable medical information access
• Practice evidence-based medicine
• Practice error reduction
• Efficient method of patient, procedure, and
  delivery tracking and reporting

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Increasing PDA usage

• ACP-ASIM survey
• 10/01
• 480 members
• 47 use handhelds
• 67 plan to use them by end 2002
• Usage among men women
• 81 use Palm OS based PDAs

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PDA Medical Applications

• Medical calculators
• Drug reference
• Infectious disease guide
• Evidence Based Tools
• Medical reference
• ICD9 Coding Asst
• EM Coding Asst

• Patient tracking
• Pregnancy tracker
• Procedure/delivery database
• Clinical prediction tools
• Data collection for research

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Hands-on Experience

• Medical Applications
• See Handout listing some software

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Finding the Software

• See URLs on Handout
• FSU Library PDA Pages
• www.med.fsu.edu\Library\
• PDA Resources
• Software Archives
• Software Developers

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Palm Licensed Software

• PDxMD disease ref
• InfoRetriever - EBM
• iSilo document reader
• jFile database
• Fireviewer image viewer

• Network drive
• U\All Users
• Nancy.clark
• PDA Licensed Software

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Windows CE Licensed Software

• InfoRetriever
• ePocrates Pro Drug Reference
• Avantgo
• PDxMD
• Stedmans Medical Dictionary
• 5 Minute Pediatric Consult

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Free PDA Software

• ePocrates Rx for Palm- Drug Database
• Free for the moment
• MedCalc (Palm) medical calculator
• Archimedes (CE) medical calculator
• Shots (Palm/CE) immunizations schedule
• Johns Hopkins Antibiotics Guide (Palm/CE)

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Adding Applications
PDA App
Personal computer
PDAApp
Sync to PDA
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Downloading

• Find the software
• Click on Download
• SaveAs comes up
• Find a folder or create a folder
• OK

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File Management
My Computer

• Manage drives
• Add folder for Downloads
• Move files
• Delete files
• C drive, Palm folder

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File Management
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Palm Desktop
Install Tool
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Install Tool
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Palm Files

• .prn
• Palm Applications
• .pdb
• Databases, documents, datafiles
• Need a .prn to run in

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Downloaded Files
See Handout

• .exe
• Double click file- will install automatically
• ePocrates
• .prn or .pdb
• Double-click file will start install tool
• .zip
• Double-click zip file will unzip files
• Double-click .prn and .pdb files in Winzip will
  run install tool

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Hotsyncing
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Hotsyncing

• Installs programs
• Syncs Palm Apps with Palm Desktop/Outlook
• Datebook
• Address book
• Notes
• To do list
• Backs up all Palm apps and databases to the
  computer

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Beaming

• Single files
• Line of sight
• What
• Programs
• Documents
• Business Card
• Addresses
• Appointments

menu
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Hands-on Experience

• Download and Install Palm Apps

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Basic Palm Applications

• Address book
• Date Book
• To do list
• Memo/note pad
• Sync with Microsoft Outlook or Palm Desktop

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Customizing your Palm

• Applications you need
• Document and HTML Reader
• Word Processor spreadsheet
• Graphic viewer
• Database app
• Files for these applications
• Pre-made references from web
• Create or convert your own files

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Writing on Palm

• Graffiti

Letters
Numbers
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Writing on Palm

• Graffiti
• Keyboard

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Palm Management

• Delete files
• Info - check memory
• Categories
• Assign category to application

menu
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Hands-on Experience

• Using Palm Apps and Graffiti

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What to Buy?
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Features

• Essential
• 16 M RAM
• Memory Expansion
• Preference
• Color
• Voice recorder
• Audio player
• Wireless Network
• Cell Phone

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Latest Technology

• Fall 2003
• 400 mHz processor
• 64M RAM internal
• External SD card or CF
• Palm Tungsten (Palm OS 5.2) 399
• Dell Axim (PocketPC 2003 OS) 348