on 11/30/02 1:12 PM, eroadies_at_mindspring.com at eroadies_at_mindspring.com
wrote:
>...to be rid of the dozens of slips of paper and post it notes and reference
> books in clinical management and care...
Ever notice as medicine becomes "paperless" we seem to use three times more
paper?
> The lack of current clinical references (e.g., Lexi Drugs, 5Minute Consult,
> Taber's,Labs,Harrison's) for the Newt that are available on palm and pocketpc
> platforms (and several of these references can be integrated/crosslinked)
> is a problem;
The 5 minute consult references are the only reason I still carry a palm. A
lot lighter than the texts which gather dust on my bookshelf. Most of the
handy apps I use on the palm should be easy to convert to the newton. The
ACLS references should also be easy to move to the newt. One project I would
like to work on is to convert the entire current clinical medical series
reference books to the newton. It shouldn't be that difficult as they are
available for download in pdf and ms word format from the publisher's site.
I am unsure about the newton's limits to document length so that may be a
problem. I hope to work on some of these projects this spring. Distribution
of these books in Newton format would likely break copyright laws, but a
step by step do it yourself with download links would probably be ok.
My biggest gripe about the increased use of computers in the health care
system is that I spend almost as much time in front of a monitor as I do
examining my patients. And how I feel for those who didn't take typing in
their youth. It hurts me to see the two finger typing that goes on around
me. If only the newton had developed the voice recognition dictation system
that Dragon systems had started, there would still be newtons in medicine
today.
-Chet
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