PDA Clinical Faculty Workshop

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PDA Clinical FacultyWorkshop

• Nancy Clark, M.Ed.
• Director of Medical Informatics Education
• FSU College of Medicine
• Fall 2005

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Objectives

• What types of medical PDA software are available
• Using PDA resources available to all FSU COM
  faculty
• What medical resources are available free online
  and how you find them
• Basic operation of PDAs
• Encourage students to use

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Handouts

• Using PDA Resources
• PowerPoint
• Writing on a PocketPC or Palm
• Installation Instructions
• Remote display
• Card using EZProxy

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What is a PDA

• Personal Digital Assistant
• Types
• Palm OS and PocketPC
• Runs applications
• Stylus driven
• Connectivity
• IR beaming
• Synchronize to PC or MAC
• WiFi 802.11 wireless
• Bluetooth
• Cellular/Blackberry

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Analogy

• PDA is like a garden
• Need feeding
• Weeding
• Replanting
• Software annuals
• Software perineals
• Owner must garden

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Increasing PDA usage

• 2001, ACP-ASIM survey, 47 of members, 81 Palm
• 2002, FM Residency Programs surveyed, 67 use
  PDAs
• 2004, multispecialty residents, 54
• 2004, PCWorld, 29 Palm, 48 PocketPC
• 2005, amednews.com, 40 of all physicians --up
  from 19 in 2001
• 2005, pediatricians, 50 used, 34 at work, 40
  personal use

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Why use a PDA?

• Patient safety
• Decrease medical errors
• Keep up to date
• Increase efficiency
• Streamline care
• Increased med student use
• FSU COM curriculum

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PDA Medical Applications

• Drug reference
• Medical calculators
• 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, billing, etc.
• Rx Writing
• EMR

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Finding the Software

• FSU Library PDA Pages
• www.med.fsu.edu\Library\
• PDA Websites

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PDA Software Webpage

• www.med.fsu.edu\library\PDAsoftware.asp

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PDA Websites
Links to Free and Other PDA Software
Links to Subscriptions
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Finding Free Stuff

• Monitor Medical Library sites
• http//library.uchc.edu/pda/
• http//med.fsu.edu/library/PDAWebsites.asp
• Watch for news
• Ectopic Brain (Kent Williard)
• Register at www.pdaMD.com
• http//medicalpocketpc.com/

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FSU Licensed PDA Software

• Clinical Evidence (99)
• Evidence-based prevention and treatment
  recommendations
• ePocrates Pro (60)
• Rx, Alt meds, ID, interactions, tables, tools
• Dynamed (200)
• Evidence-based disease reference
• InfoRetriever (249)
• 5MCC, Cochrane, InfoPOEMs, calculators,
  guidelines, ICD-9 and EM coder (PDA and desktop)
• POCKETConsult (149)
• Differential diagnosis, medical conditions
• Stedmans Dictionary (49) (students only)

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Free PDA Software

• Archimedes medical calculator (PDA and desktop)
• Geriatrics at Your Fingertips
• Textbook with tools, ie ADL
• Mobile Merck Medicus
• Pocket Guide to Diagnostic Tests
• Merck Manual 17th ed
• Shots - immunizations schedule
• USPSTF Tool health maintenance

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Incorporating PDA into Teaching

• Ask students to look something up
• Let them choose the resource
• Once they give you the answer
• Assess their understanding of information What
  does pulmonary edema mean?
• Use as opportunity to teach, explain terminology,
  application, reasoning, etc.

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Assess Understanding

• Dig deeper into their understanding
• Ask them What if? questions
• ie Now what if this patient had a fever? How
  would this change your differential?

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Another Strategy

• Encourage student to discover and show you
  applications they like to use. Have you found
  any other PDA tools to be useful?
• Show it to me.
• Let them teach you

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Model Using PDA While Seeing Pts

• Describe your question
• Tell which resource using
• Why you are looking there
• What you find
• How you are going to use the information

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Hands-on Experience

• Medical Applications
• See Handout Using PDA Resources

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Installing PDA Software
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Adding Applications
PDA App
Web site
Download to Personal computer. Run program.
Register Get UserID, PW, Serial
PDAApp
Install to PDA
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Synchronizing PDA
Updates References
Personal computer
Syncs Calendar, Contacts, Files
PDA
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Full Installation Instructions

• Updated weekly

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Practice Downloading

• Find the software you want
• Under Immunizations, click Shots 2005
• Click on PocketPC
• Scroll down, under SHOTS 2005 full download,
  click Shots.exe file
• SaveAs comes up
• Find a folder or create a folder
• OK run installation program

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Hands-on Experience

• Download and Install PDA Apps

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What to Buy

• Essential
• 64M RAM and 128 Flash ROM
• 500 mHz Processor
• SD or CF Card 256-1G Memory Expansion

• Preference
• Wireless Network
• 802.11
• Bluetooth
• Cell Phone
• Camera
• MP3 player

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Latest Technology

• Fall 2005
• 400 (624) mHz processor
• 128M (256) RAM internal
• External SD card or CF 512M-1G
• Dell Axim X51 (Windows Mobile OS) 312
• Palm Tungsten T5 (Palm OS 5.2) 349

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Getting FSU PDA Software

• Get a PDA sufficient to run it
• 64M RAM, 300mHz, 128M Card bare minimum
• Download Instructions (Read them)
• Contact Regional Campus IT for help
• Nadine Dexter or DL LaSeur (TLH)
• Use EZProxy to access Websites