Intro to Your PDA Vista Edition

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Intro to Your PDA Vista Edition

• Nancy Clark, M.Ed.Director, Medical Informatics
  Education
• Fall 2008

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Goals For Session 1

• Distribute PDAs
• Learn how to operate the PocketPC
• Synchronize your PDA with your laptop
• Do File maintenance
• List programs that will be installed today, and
  identify their uses
• Install programs
• Getting help

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Handouts

• Your PDA
• Basic Operations
• Installation instructions
• Memo of Understanding

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Distribute PDA

• Complete paperwork
• Reboot your computer to get a good IP

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The HP iPAQ 110

• Windows Mobile 6 operating system
• 624 MHz 64M SDRAM 256 Flash RAM
• 1 G SD card
• Color, backlit, 320x240 screen
• Sound recorder, mp3 player
• Wireless - 802.11 and Bluetooth
• Sync cradle
• Power supply
• Users Manual on CD
• (when all else fails, read the instructions)

Windows Mobile Device PocketPC NOT a Palm
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Agenda Basic Operation

• Owner Information, Add menus, buttons
• Start, Settings, Personal
• Check Power Levels and Memory, remove programs
• Start, Settings, System
• Use Memory to close all programs

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Personal Settings

• Start Settings Personal
• Owner Information
• Add menus, buttons
• Today

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System Settings

• Start Settings System
• Check Power Levels
• Memory
• Remove programs
• Use Memory to close all programs
• Brightness
• Clock to set time

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Basic Operation

• Use Memory to manage programs running
• Programs dont close
• Tap Memory
• Running Programs
• Close ALL programs prior to syncing, installing
  new programs, or when it slows down.

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Power Settings

• Extending battery life
• USB Charging
• Brightness

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Writing Options

• Keyboard tap tap tap
• Block Recognizer
• Graffiti
• Letter Recognizer
• Grade school
• Transcriber
• Write on the screen
• Install from CD

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Writing Options
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Outlook

• Make an appointment
• Add a contact
• Add a note
• Add a task
• Find something
• Import C/O 2011s calendar to your Outlook and
  sync to PDA

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Wireless Issues

• FSUWIN must log into site
• Open IM, log in
• FSUMED on hold
• http//pdaportal.com/
• List of PDA friendly web sites
• Google, Amazon, Weather, eMedicne

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Syncing with Laptop

• Install Windows Mobile Device Center

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WM Device Center

• Connects PC PDA
• Create a Partnership
• Think Microsoft
• Outlook talks to Outlook
• Calendar to Calendar
• Contacts to Contacts
• Etc.
• Will update some resources

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Change Content Sync Settings

• What do you want to sync?
• Calendar
• Contacts

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File Maintenance

• Move files back and forth
• Word, PowerPoint, Excel files
• Music, images, OneNote
• From Laptop, while connected
• Computer or Mobile Device Center
• PDA is like an external storage device when
  connected
• On PDA
• Programs, File Explorer
• Use to delete and move filed, folders

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Put Picture on Background

• Find a picture
• Resize it to 480 wide x 640 tall 90 dpi max
  (Microsoft Digital Image Software)
• Save as .jpg or .gif
• In My Computer
• Drag and drop into Storage Card folder on Mobile
  Device
• On iPAQ, Start, Settings, Today
• Use picture as background Browse to find

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Troubleshooting

• Try soft reset last resort hard reset/restore
• Keep charged - synced
• Carry with you
• In TLH call IT Help Desk, Kenneth, Nancy, Ben

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Installing Software

• See Handout

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Links to Download Sites
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Full Installation Instructions

• Handout
• Each individual program installation instructions
• On Intranet will require you to sign in if off
  campus
• Updated weekly

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General Steps for All Installations

• Go to the Library web page, if at home log onto
  EZProxy
• PDA Websites page Follow link to product web
  site
• Register and get an account
• Pick platform (Windows Mobile 5 or PocketPC)
• Download software to desktop
• Run the software with the PDA connected
• Tell it where to put the software (device or SD)
• When it finishes, test the software

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Adding Applications
PDA App
3. Download software

• Go to Web site
• Register

4. Run Software on Computer
PDAApp
5. Install to PDA Device Memory or SD card
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What to install today

• Epocrates Essentials (device)
• Rx SD Sx SD and Dx SD
• PEPID (SD)
• Geriatrics At Your Fingertips (SD)
• ePSS (USPSTF Tool) on device

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ePocrates

• ePocrates Essentails
• Register to create your userID and password
• Download latest PocketPC version
• Install to RAM
• Rx, Sx, Dx to SD card
• Let it sync

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PEPID

• Stedmans Dictionary
• Disease Quick Ref
• Drug Ref with Interactions
• Lab Manual
• Images
• Clinical Anatomy
• Rhythm Strips
• Clerkships

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Geriatrics at Your Fingertips

• Free from AGS
• Articles
• Guidelines
• Protocols
• Calculators
• Images
• Tables
• Register at Geriatricsatyourfingertips.com
• Download and install

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Free Software Recommended

• ePSS USPSTF Tool
• Mobile Merck Medicus
• Harrisons Practice
• Pocket Guide to Diagnostic Tests
• Merck Manual 17th Edition

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ePSS (USPSTF) Tool

• Enter age, gender, etc. of patient
• Gives you the preventive recommendations for this
  patient
• Grades A,B,C

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Mobile Merck Medicus

• Free from Merck Medicus
• Contains Merck Manual 17th Ed.
• Pocket Guide to Diagnostic Tests
• Syncs Reuters Medical News
• Latest abstracts from leading journals
• Register at MerckMedicus
• Download and install