The New Generation of Handhelds

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The New Generation of Handhelds

• iTouch and the Apps Suitable for Health Sciences
• Justin Harper M IV
• The Ohio State University Medical Center

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Chicken Wire
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Solutions

• Automated audio editing
• re-create manual editing of the material
• make it portable
• free me from class and a computer
• What I did instead

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Outcome

• Musculoskeletal
• Scheduled time - 42 Hrs
• Actual time - 32.8 - 78
• Sped up time 23.3 43
• Renal
• Scheduled time - 49 Hrs
• Actual time - 35.9 Hrs - 73
• Sped up time - 22.8 Hrs - 46

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Renal Lectures

• 16.6 Hrs
• 34 of the original 49

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Podcasting and beyond

• I needed a dynamic platform for lecture materials
• Previous handhelds
• very few students used their device
• most only used the calculator
• Program was under scrutiny

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Why an iTouch?

• Extremely flexible
• Apples reliability
• Great screen resolution
• Coolness factor

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How to get started

• Setting up a Itunes account
• get a few apps just to try the process
• download a podcast from the device
• www.apple.com/iphone/iphone-3gs
• www.apple.com/ipodtouch/features

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Foundation applications

• Internet/hospital access
• Mediquations
• Up-to-Date
• Diagnosaurus
• Epocrates/Lexi-comp institutional
• Procedural Videos from NEJM

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Other useful applications

• Wikipanion
• g-flash, etc.
• Skyscape
• Pandora

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Worth mentioning

• White Noise
• Instant EKG
• Omnifocus

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Demonstration
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Key points

• If you dont have or know something look it up
• It most likely exists
• Add your music and fun stuff as well

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Questions??