Point of Care Information Devices

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Point of CareInformation Devices

• Personal Digital Assistants
• by
• Dr. Ross Vanderbush

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Interesting Points

• in 2002 29 of Physicians used devices
• In 2002 59 of MD PDA users relied the device as
  a reference tool
• Harris poll estimates that physician use will be
  50 by 2004-2005

http//www.manhattanresearch.com August 2002
Newsletter
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Topics

• Operating Systems
• Hardware
• Personal Applications
• Professional Applications

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Operating Systems

• Palm OS
• Pocket PC
• Windows CE
• Symbian OS
• Formerly EPOC
• Franklin
• eBookman

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Processors for PDAs

• Intel XScale 400 MHz
• Motorola Dragon Ball for Palm OS
• Intel StrongARM for Pocket PCs

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Hardware Considerations

• RAM
• Display
• Resolution
• Battery
• Size
• Expansion Cards
• Accessories

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Accessories

• Keyboard
• Digital Camera
• Voice recorder
• GPS

• Remote control
• Memory devices
• Pager
• Cellular telephone

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Palm OS Devices

• Palm
• Handspring
• Sony Clie
• Kyocera
• Handera
• Samsung

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Pocket PC Devices

• Jornada (HP)
• Compaq (iPaq)
• Casio
• Toshiba
• NEC
• Cassiopea (Casio)

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Symbian

• Psion
• Nokia
• Ericsson
• Sonicblue

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PDA Brands
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Operating System Market Share

• Palm 80, 2002
• It is predicted that Windows CE market share will
  increase use will invert in about three years

http//www.palminfocenter.com/view_story.asp?ID49
06 Palm OS Market Share Rises in Second Half of
'02
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Bottom Line

• First consider applications
• Pharmacy
• Nonpharmacy

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Bottom Line

• Palm dominate OS (now)
• More Pharmacy programs for Palm than Windows CE
  (now)
• Ease of use

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Topics

• Operating Systems
• Hardware
• Personal Applications
• Professional Applications

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Personal Information Management

• Calendar
• Date book
• Address book
• Telephone list
• To do list
• Note pad

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Topics

• Operating Systems
• Hardware
• Personal Applications
• Professional Applications

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Professional Applications

• Calculators
• Kinetics programs
• Medical formulas
• Diabetic references
• Natural product references
• Medical text references
• Pharmacy references
• Medical Dictionaries
• Patient Chart software
• Lab value reference software

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Professional References

• 842 programs for healthcare as of 10-22-2003
• HealthyPalmPilot

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PDAS Programs(as of 10/22/2003)

• Drugs 80
• Diagnosis 144
• Health and Fitness 51
• Interventions 1146
• Investigations 63
• Record tracking 107
• References 292
• Research Tools 39

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Pharmacy References

• Lexicomp
• Mosby
• Clinical Pharmacology
• Merck Manual

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