PDAs Prove Valuable in Monitoring Patients with Mental Illness

A research team from University of Missouri has published an article in the Journal of Abnormal Psychology describing the use of personal digital assistants in monitoring patients with borderline personality disorder. Participants were equipped with devices that prompted them to respond to a series of questions at random times through the day, giving doctors detailed information about their experiences and moods...MORE

Unbound Medicine Now Available for Download to BlackBerry

Unbound Medicine has announced that its software can be downloaded to BlackBerry devices. Releases include popular titles such as 5-Minute Clinical Consult and Nursing Central....MORE

73% of Physicians Go Online Daily for Clinical Information

A new survey showed that 73% of doctors go online for clinical information at least once daily,and almost 20% consult websites 5 or more times a day....MORE

Nursing Interest in Wireless Connectivity in the Hospital

Enterprise-wide wireless solution addresses nursing need for wireless connectivity and mobility during patient care. MORE...

Unbound Medicine has released a series of new “digitally born” products developed in partnership with Merck & Co., Inc. The new products extend The Merck Manual franchise with a new database focused on the assessment and treatment of patient symptoms. MORE...

Wireless Technology Deployed in Illinois Hospital

A Peoria, Illinois hospital has installed wireless technology throughout the facility to increase patient monitoring capacity as well as extended use of cell phones, PDAs, pagers, and laptops at the point of care....MORE

Medical Students at University of Louisville to Use Wireless Resources

University of Louisville Medical students will benefit from a partnership between the school and Sprint to provide smartphones preloaded with medical applications...MORE

American Academy of Pediatrics and Unbound Medicine Launch Pediatrics Site

The AAP and Unbound Medicine have launched Pediatric Care Online™. Created especially for pediatricians and pediatric residents, the point-of-care solution integrates AAP reference content with Unbound's award-winning platform making the site easy to access using a personal digital assistant (PDA), a wireless device, or the Web....MORE

Department of Health and Human Services Demonstrates Health Information Network

HHS recently demonstrated live operation of the Nationwide Health Information Network via webcast. Using actual health systems, the test showed how health care providers will be able to use a Web browser to access patient records stored in a different health system. http://www.govhealthit.com/online/news/350589-1.html?GHITNL=yes...

Army Testing Cell Phone Messaging to Trauma Patients

The U.S. Army plans to test the use of text-messaging to cell phones of troops who have suffered brain injury as a result of trauma. The system is designed to urge patients to comply with treatment and to allow the health care team to improve monitoring...MORE

iPod Touch in the Health Care Setting

In a recent blog post, Dr John Halamka described the advantages of the iPod Touch as an information source for health care providers....MORE

Medline Search RSS Feeds

Unbound Medicine has added a nifty RSS feature to our Unbound Medline product. Using this feature is a terrific way to keep abreast of the latest medical information published for a specific subject.

To subscribe to a Medline Search RSS, simply run a search in Unbound Medline and click on the RSS link. You can use your favorite RSS reader to track the latest Medline search results for your saved search.

To show the ease in which one could subscribe to a Medline Search RSS feed, I created a sample search and will list the link to the RSS feed below. I have an interest in journal articles that publish information about Smartphone and PDA use in medicine, so I searched the following in Unbound Medline:

"iPhone OR Smartphone OR Handheld Computer"

In the search results I clicked on the RSS link and saved the URL.

http://www.unboundmedicine.com/medline/ebm/search/iphone_or_smartphone_or_handheld_computer.rss

I use Google Reader as my default RSS reader, so I simply subscribed using this URL. Now everytime I open Google Reader I will see the latest Medline search results for this saved search.

Mobile Medical Practitioners to Push Medical Device Market

According to a report by Wireless Healthcare, an anticipated increase in the level of healthcare delivered outside of hospitals will be a critical factor in the medical device market over the next 10 years....MORE

Military EHR Incorporates Mobile Devices

PDA devices are used to manage patient information and assessment in the field. Users are able to quickly gather structured information on history and physical and use the system to generate a care plan based on triage rules and best practice protocols. Because cellular support is unreliable iThe user interface is designed to be easy to navigate in high stress conditions. Given the lack of WiFi and reliable cellular in battlefield conditions, the device is later synced with acradle to transfer medical records to the system....MORE

CDC Offers New Health Data Widget

CDC.gov has developed a CDC Data and Statistics Widget with up-to-date health and safety content....MORE

Wolters Kluwer Health and Unbound Medicine Launch Mobile Clin-eguide

The Wolters Kluwer Health online clinical decision support tool, Clin-eguide, is now available for use at the point of care in a mobile version powered by the Unbound Platform....MORE

More Physicians Communicating with Patients via the Web

As many as 36% of doctors in the U.S. are communicating with patients online, compared to 31% in 2007. This group is also more likely to use a smartphone or PDA and to consult Internet resources during or between visits with patients. MORE...

Study Uses PDAs to Monitor Nursing Activities

A national research project is using PDAs to assess how nurses are using their time. Nurses carry the devices in a pocket and when prompted by an alarm they quickly note their current activities. The long term goal of the study is to improve patient care and safety by better understanding the responsibilities that keep nurses from spending time at the bedside with their patients....MORE

Unbound Medicine and Lippincott Williams & Wilkins Launch 5-Minute Clinical Consult

Unbound Medicine and Lippincott Williams & Wilkins have launched the digital versions of 5-Minute Clinical Consult 2009. This popular resource can be found on the Web at 5mcc.com, or downloaded to PDA or Smartphone for quick reference on the go....MORE

ACP Position Paper on Increased Use of Technology

A recent position paper released by the American College of Physicians supports increased use of health information technology, but points out that physicians should be reimbursed for the required investment of time to review and maintain patient data as well as the cost of equipment...MORE