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

Internet Presents Opportunities for Healthcare

Multiple challenges and opportunities are seen as developers create new ways to gather and disseminate the complex knowledge required to practice health care today. This report from European website OBBeC evaluates some of the difficulties and presents some possible developments...MORE

Wireless Technology Developments

Development of wireless technology and the need for remote health care will drive change in the near future, according to one expert...MORE

New Medical Uses for Cell Phones Proliferate

The Boston Globe recently reported on a wide variety of applications being devised for both researchers and consumers in healthcare. Examples include the use of cell phone cameras to aid diagnosis of diseases in remote locations, medication reminders, and streaming video to aid emergency response teams...MORE

Google Releases Personal Health Records Application

Google has joined companies like WebMD and Microsoft in creating a website where individuals can organize and store their personal health records, according to the New York Times....MORE

MLA 2008 - Unbound Medicine Review

Michelle Kraft's blog, "The Krafty Librarian," reported on mobile tools for clinicians in her notes from the Medical Library Association meeting in Chicago....MORE

IBM Targets Health for Mobile Phone Applications

IBM Research is developing applications for mobile phones, including one designed to supply information to aid people on the scene in medical emergencies. MORE...

Peruvian Physicians Use PDAs in Treatment of TB

A recent initiative launched by a doctoral student from MIT and Harvard Medical School worked with Socios en Salud (SES), a Lima-based health organization to provide PDAs to physicians working in the slums of Lima, Peru. Using these handheld devices, health workers could easily manage information they need to track, treat and support patients with multi-drug resistant tuberculosis. MORE...

Ontario Provides PDAs to Nurses

PDAs will be provided to as many as 2,000 nurses in Ontario, Canada. The goal of the provincial government is to support access to drug databases, disease information, and medical dictionaries at the patient's bedside. MORE....

Growth In Use of Wireless in US Hospitals

Wireless capability is increasingly seen in U.S. hospitals. Sales in wireless has been growing at an annual rate of 23% since 2005, with sales of $2.7 billion in 2007. Hospitals see wireless support for their mobile nurses and physicians as a way to make their staff more productive while reducing medical errors. MORE...

Smartphones for Medical Imaging

Engineers at the University of California at Berkeley and the Hebrew University in Jerusalem have developed a way to transmit medical images using cellphones. This promising technique could make modern imaging modalities such as ultrasound, radiography, and MRI more affordable and accessible in the developing world. MORE...

Doctors Take Up Smartphones

Use of smartphones in clinical practice is slowly increasing as more doctors understand the power of these "pocket computers" and try new medical software being designed especially for iPhone and BlackBerry as well as Palm and Pocket PC...MORE

New Improved Tabers Online

F.A. Davis Company and Unbound Medicine, Inc. have just introduced a new online version of the popular Taber's Cyclopedic Medical Dictionary with features not available on the previous website....MORE

Wireless Handheld Devices Could Improve Infectious Disease Reporting

A study published in the Journal of Public Health Management and Practice reported that availability of handheld devices and wireless access to informational websites can improve physician reporting of infectious disease outbreaks...MORE

Physician Use of Internet Increases

Physicians use of the Internet for work related activities is increasing. A recent survey by Jupiter Research shows that eighty-nine percent of responding physicians responding research clinical information online at least monthly, compared with 75% in 2005. In 2007, 78% of survey respondents reported communicating with colleagues via e-mail, and 39% reported communicating with patients via e-mail, up from 2005, when 54% reported e-mailing colleagues and 20% used e-mail with patients. MORE....

More Web Browsing from iPhone than Windows Mobile

Recent market research indicates that the Apple iPhone now accounts for .09% of all Web browsing, compared to .06% for Windows Mobile devices. Analysts speculate that despite the low numbers, this demonstrates the superiority of the Safari browse to the browser currently available for Windows users...MORE

Medical Trainees Use iPods as Part of Training

Medical residents in California have been using short videos on iPods as a refresher before performing ultrasound procedures. This technique helps them get the most from short, intensive courses during specialty training....MORE

Unbound Medicine Releases Free Search Tools for iPhone

Unbound Medicine released Unbound MEDLINE for iPhone™ and iPod touch™ access. Unbound MEDLINE provides instant access to more than 17 million journal articles so healthcare providers can practice evidence-based medicine right at the point of care. Unbound MEDLINE’s interface searches the National Library of Medicine’s PubMed® database....MORE