Handhelds in Medicine A Practical Guide for Clinicians
Handhelds in Medicine A Practical Guide for Clinicians
Editors
Scott M. Strayer, MD, MPH
Peter L. Reynolds, MD
Mark H. Ebell, MD, MS
Product Description
Handheld Computers in Medicine is an essential volume of information needed for all physicians, especially those in the primary care specialties. It is in the tradition of Mark Ebell's recent successful Springer book and CD-ROM, Evidence-Based Diagnosis: Handbook of Clinical Prediction Rules. (This enables the clinician to make an automatic calculation of risk assessment based on the patient's presenting symptoms, which are fed into the program. By working with the CD-ROM, a risk calculation can be made in seconds, all within the time period of a standard office visit.) Ebell is a renowned family physician and educator who has devoted his career to assessing and processing clinical information, which is to be used in making an accurate diagnosis and prescribing the correct therapeutics in the shortest time period. If this is to be done correctly, the physician must be able to implement a variety of electronic information bases effectively, and during the time period of a standard office visit. Nothing accomplishes this goal as efficiently as handheld PCs and Palm Pilots. This allows the physician to engage the patient, take a case history, perform a physical examination, access patient records, complete the diagnosis and prescribe the necessary therapeutics and process the bill coding, all without leaving the patient's side. Depending on the physician's degree of 'tech-savvy' skills, this can be an exhausting and intimidating process. It can be especially complicated to convert an entire office practice, then conform to a particular healthcare organization's plan of operation. Ebell's book and CD-ROM set operates as a concise guide to enable any physician and healthcare professional to implement the use of handheld computers into their practice. It is important to note that the spirit of this publication's goal is to eliminate error and thus raise the level of quality in all aspects of patient care.
Product Details
Paperback: 468 pages
Publisher: Springer; 1 edition (November 19, 2004)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0387403299
ISBN-13: 978-0387403298
Contents
Preface
Contributors
- Registered, Trademarked, and Copyrighted Material
- Section I Getting to Know Your Handheld Computer
- Choosing a Handheld Computer: PDAs, MDAs, and the Alphabet Soup of Handheld Computers
- Getting to Know Your Handheld: Palm OS and Pocket PC
- Getting Software from Cyberspace to the Palm of Your Hand: Downloading and Installing Software on Your Palm OS or Pocket PC Handheld
Section II Medical Software
- “Where in the World Wide Web Do I Find All This Stuff?” Finding Medical Software and Information on the Web for Handheld Computers
- What Floor Is Mrs. Jones on, and What Does Her CBC Look Like Today? Patient Records on Handheld Computers
- Calculator Programs for Handheld Computers: Crunching the Numbers Made Easy
- Medical References: Information at Your Fingertips
- Getting Paid for What You Do:Avoid Losing Your Shirt by Using a Handheld Computer for Billing
- Electronic Prescribing: Drug Dealing Twenty-First Century Style
- Medical Documents in Your Pocket
- Capturing Life in the Palm of Your Hand: Getting Rid of the Yellow Stickies by Using a Handheld Database
- Software for Nursing: RNs Are Mobilizing
- Software for Other Healthcare Professionals: Hey,What About Me?
- Evidence-Based Medicine and Handhelds
- Wireless 101
- Programmable Calculators
- How to Make Your Own Database: Programming a Simple Procedure Log
- Creating Your Own Programs
- Beyond the Beam: Server-Based Synchronization
- Teaching People to Use Handheld Computers
Index
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