Table of Contents
Section I Getting to Know Your Handheld Computer
1 Choosing a Handheld Computer: PDAs, MDAs, and
the Alphabet Soup of Handheld Computers . 3
Scott M. Strayer and Mark H. Ebell
2 Getting to Know Your Handheld: Palm OS and Pocket
PC . 24
Peter L. Reynolds and Mark H. Ebell
3 Getting Software from Cyberspace to the Palm of
Your Hand: Downloading and Installing Software on Your Palm OS
or Pocket PC Handheld . 51
Scott M. Strayer and Mark H. Ebell
Section II Medical Software
4 Where in the World Wide Web Do I Find All
This Stuff? Finding Medical Software and Information on
the Web for Handheld Computers . 77
Peter L. Reynolds and Scott M. Strayer
5 What Floor Is Mrs. Jones on, and What Does Her
CBC Look Like Today? Patient Records on Handheld Computers . 97
Amy Price
6 Calculator Programs for Handheld Computers: Crunching
the Numbers Made Easy. 137
Scott M. Strayer and Mark H. Ebell
7 Medical References: Information at Your Fingertips
. 155
Louis Spikol
8 Getting Paid for What You Do: Avoid Losing Your
Shirt by Using a Handheld Computer for Billing . 177
Scott M. Strayer
9 Electronic Prescribing: Drug Dealing Twenty-First
Century Style . 194
Gary N. Fox
10 Medical Documents in Your Pocket . 223
Peter L. Reynolds
11 Capturing Life in the Palm of Your Hand: Getting
Rid of the Yellow Stickies by Using a Handheld Database . 251
James M. Thompson, Scott M. Strayer, and Mark H. Ebell
12 Software for Nursing: RNs Are Mobilizing . 289
Sylvia Suszka Hildebrandt Jeneane A. Brian and Daniel S. Brian,
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13 Software for Other Healthcare Professionals: Hey,What About
Me? . 319
Laura Kosteva, Greg Schaller, Jeneane A. Brian, and Scott M. Strayer
Section III Advanced Topics
14 Evidence-Based Medicine and Handhelds. 337
Scott M. Strayer and Mark H. Ebell
15 Wireless 101 . 349
David R. Blair
16 Programmable Calculators . 378
Peter L. Reynolds and Mark H. Ebell
17 How to Make Your Own Database: Programming a
Simple Procedure Log . 387
James M. Thompson and Scott M. Strayer
18 Creating Your Own Programs . 417
Mark H. Ebell
19 Beyond the Beam: Server-Based Synchronization.
426
Dale Patterson
20 Teaching People to Use Handheld Computers . 439
Peter L. Reynolds, Scott M. Strayer, and Mark H. Ebell