PubMed on Tap

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PubMed on Tap

• Accessing NLM Databases from Handheld Computers

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PubMed on Tap is a pilot RD project of the
Communications Engineering Branch, Lister Hill
National Center for Biomedical Communications,
National Library of Medicine,National
Institutes of Health,Health and Human Services
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System overview
PDA with PubMed on Tap
Wireless Access Point
PubMed Entrez
http protocol
http protocol
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Target User Community

• Mobile Health Care Professionals
• Clinicians
• Nurses
• Home care providers

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Demonstration
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We are now recruiting groups of evaluators

• Ideal group
• Health care professionals
• Experienced PDA owners
• Access to a wireless network

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What we want to know

• The most useful features.
• The best interface to implement those features.
• Can mobile access to PubMed help health care
  professionals?

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Remember

• This is an RD project.
• Not all features are implemented (yet!).
• It is a dynamic system (things will change).

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If you would like to help us evaluate PubMed on
Tap, register at
http//archive.nlm.nih.gov/proj/pmot/eval.php
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If you are interested but do not have Palm 4.x or
higher, see
http//certif.nlm.nih.gov8080/nlm/
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The Near Future?
Wow! I didnt realize PubMed had such timely
information!
Clinicians are demanding more! Lets make all our
data easily available from handheld computers.