ACOFP Digital Toolkit

Medical PDA Osteopathic Software Resources

 

Antibiotics

Johns Hopkins Antibiotics Guide
Price: $24.95, free trial download
More than 400,000 clinicians worldwide rely on the ABX Guide from Johns Hopkins to provide timely and authoritative antibiotic information.

Sanford Guide
Price: Starting at $29.95
The Palm and Pocket PC editions of the Sanford Guide to Antimicrobial Therapy contain the entire content of the print edition: all tables, references, footnotes, and the complete index. Nothing has been eliminated.

Asthma

Asthma Treatment Guidelines
Price: Free Demo
The Asthma Treatment Guidelines puts asthma treatment guidelines in the palm of your hand. A succinct and practical point-of-care reference to the full NAEPP Expert Panel Report 2: Guidelines for the Diagnosis and Management of Asthma is now available for download and use on Palm OS devices.

Blackberry

Blackberry® Healthcare Solutions
Price: Free
Now you can receive critical alerts, write e-RX, capture charges, securely access patient data, monitor vital signs and complete order entry tasks in real-time from anywhere. BlackBerry® Business Solutions let you better serve your patients — and improve your work life balance.

PEPID™
Price: Varies per program
PEPID™ for Blackberry® is the first medical and drug information resource designed exclusively for use on BlackBerry handheld devices. This new PEPID line of knowledge products employs advanced technology that uses both a native application on a BlackBerry device and mobile wireless data exchanges. PEPID users benefit from deep medical content, plus the speed and reliability of a native application on their BlackBerry.

Blood Pressure

Blood Pressure Manager
Price: Starting at $11.97
This application keeps track of the blood pressure readings. The readings are highlighted with different colors based on the pressure values. The program also shows the overall average statistics and the weekly distribution. All the pressure values can be plot on several graphs with the ideal, borderline, and hypertension lines. Using a Windows Desktop program, you can print, plot additional graphs, and export the readings data. You can also export to a comma-delimited file the records of your readings database using a command line utility under Linux, BeOS, and Solaris. The exported file can be imported in almost all spreadsheets (like StarOffice or Excel.)

Tracker
Price: Starting at $11.97
Tracks BP with Personal & Doctor details. Graphical & Statistical Comparison. HTML/Word/CSV Exports. 11 types of Date Ranges to track BP, Statistics & Export. For Doctors/Patients.

Calculators

Archimedes
Price: Free
With formulas ranging from Aa Gradient to Weights, our proprietary calculator provides you with 70 preprogrammed formulas that include specialties such as Cardiology, Pharmacology, Hematology, FEN, Pediatrics, Pulmonary, and Renal.

Medcalc
Price: Free
Medcalc is designed for rapid calculation of common medical formulas and scores used in anesthesiology, family practice, pediatrics, emergency medicine, intensive care, and internal medicine. It is free and easy to use. It has more than 80 formulas that are sorted by categories. Units are available in either S.I. or local units (defaults can be set for each item). Most formulas come with bibliographic references and clinical tips. Results can be saved for later retrieval on the Palm OS operating system only.

MedRules
Price: Free
MedRules includes 40 evidence-based calculators and scoring systems used to provide management direction or estimate disease likelihood, prognosis, and mortality. Individual rules are tap-selected from the alphabetized main menu screen or the upper-right system/specialty-specific drop-down box. Patient characteristics are easily entered via check box or drop-down selection. A lower-right "Calc" button shows scoring results and clinical implications. Note, that MedRules is essentially a stagnant program. The content has not been updated in more than four years, due to constraints of time and interest. It continues to be made available by popular demand, but please use it with the understanding that the algorithms may become outdated over time.

Cholesterol

Cholesterol Guidelines Implementation Program at Point of Care
Price: Free
The Palm OS (Operating System) program for application of the Third Report of the National Cholesterol Education Program (NCEP) Expert Panel on Detection, Evaluation, and Treatment of High Blood Cholesterol in Adults
This interactive guideline tool will assist the clinician in implementing the ATP III Cholesterol Guidelines at the point of care.

CME

Skyscape CME 360°
Palm OS, PocketPC/Windows Mobile, Windows 98 or higher
Offers you an easy, convenient, flexible way to fulfill your Continuing Medical Education requirements. Best of all it's free!

Coding

ICDMEISTER
Price: Starting at $39.95, free trial available
The Fastest and Easiest ICD-9 Coding Tool for PDA – the ICDMEISTER 2007.
containing all 15,000 + 2007 ICD-9 Codes and Fully Interlinked with CPT®Meister

Database

HanDbase
Price: Starting at $69.99
What Makes HanDBase Different From Other Palm Medical Software Programs?
• Simple interface allows users the ability to create their own custom medical database system in minutes
• Scalable, so healthcare professionals in an office practice or hospital can sync their databases together
• Ability to beam sync patient data files-- even between a Palm and Pocket PC devices!
• Syncs directly with Microsoft Access.
• Encryption down to the field level, which makes HanDBase an excellent HiPAA Solution.
• Free Windows desktop companion software
• Extensive FREE medical database download gallery

Dermatology

SkinDx PDA software
Price: $29.95
As the newest addition to their mobile reference library, USBMIS is proud to offer this comprehensive guide to essential information for the detection, treatment, and management of common dermatologic conditions.

Differential Diagnosis

Diagnosaurus
Price: Free
Diagnosaurus provides differential diagnoses (DDx) of symptoms, signs, and diseases. By using the pull down menu, physicians can choose to view entries by organ system, or select to view the list of symptoms only, the list of diseases only, or all of the entries. For example, to review the causes of a patient's chief complaint simply select the symptom or sign from the alphabetical listing. If the physician has made a diagnosis and wonders what other disorders to consider, select the diagnosis from the list to see its DDx.

Drug Guides

Epocrates RX
Price: Free (Upgrade options are available for a cost)
Users can look up more than 3,300 drugs for continually updated information on dosage, side effects, and pricing, and the software highlights drug interactions and compliance with health plan formularies. Epocrates also has a number of services available for a reasonable price. Epocrates Rx Pro offers all of the services of the free Epocrates Rx, but it additionally includes information on many herbal and alternative medications (which can be cross-referenced in the drug-interaction tool), Epocrates ID (infectious disease), as well as the Epocrates

Skyscape Drug Databases: Drug News Weekly for your PDA – an ARTbeat™ Channel
Price: $69.95
Drug News Weekly, a subscription ARTbeat channel for your PDA, features brief articles on the latest drug news and information and is delivered weekly directly to your PDA.

A2zDrugs™
Price:$49.95
Containing more than 600 full drug monographs, plus abbreviated monographs for combination drugs, orphan drugs and AIDS drugs in development, A to Z Drug Facts provides up-to-date information on more than 5,000 drugs.

Thomson Clinical Xpert™
Price: Free for students, $99.95 for physicians
The next generation of the Micromedex mobile solution for Palm OS® and Pocket PC devices (formerly mobileMICROMEDEX)

Drug Guides

isilo
Price: Free Trial Version Available
iSilo™ is a highly versatile document reader available for Palm OS®, Pocket PC, and Windows® CE Handheld PC handhelds, as well as for Windows® computers. You can find thousands of ready-made documents downloadable immediately for reading with iSilo™ or you can create your own documents from HTML content using iSilox.

The Clinical Medicine Series
Price: Free demo, full package $99.95
A complete medical textbook in the palm of your hand that is rapidly accessible and packed with clinically relevant, evidence-based information. Fully indexed with over 2,500 clinical topics for rapid reference. Contains detailed drug prescribing pearls and over 12,400 medical terms and conditions. The text has multiple cross references and hyperlinks for fast navigation. Includes all the current Clinical Medical Series titles! Contains numerous illustrations. The DEMO contains the basic layout with live links to each chapter and sublinks to 1-2 topics per chapter. Currently available in two formats. One that requires either the iSilo reader ($19.50) and one utilizing the MobiPocket Reader (FREE).

Handheldmed
Price: Varies according to software
The Handheldmed eBook Store carries over 120 medical eBooks that are compatible with your PDA, Smartphone, and Windows PC.

Eponyms
Price: Free
Practically every sign, symptom, or test that has an acronym/eponym that can easily be found on this program. Users can also use the “search” function to find an eponym by its diagnostic name (i.e.: search “thrombo” to find Buerger’s disease, aka thromboangiitis obliterans).

How to Videos for Your PDA

Doctor’s Gadgets
Price: Free
Video tutorials by Dr Chris Paton on how doctors can use a PDA to help organize their work life. The excellent and free online movie clips provide all the basics a beginner may need, but the companion text is a great reference and contains additional material not found online.

Immunization

immunizationed.org
Price: Free
This site provides both online as well as PDA versions of the CDC’s recommended vaccination schedules. A new version is available free every year (you can delete the old version or keep it along with the new one).

MeisterMed
Price: Free
iSilo must be installed for these programs to run. MeisterMed is a website that offers many free as well as paid medical references to be used on a PDA. Almost all medical specialties have references available on this page, and references are added or updated frequently.

Mneumonics
Price: Free
Medical Mnemonics is a free, non-profit, online searchable database of medical mnemonics to help remember the important details. This program is very useful, as it has many good mnemonics for clinical use. Physicians can post their own mnemonics on their website to be included in the ever-growing database. This is another handy tool to have on a PDA.

Mobile Merck Medicus
Price: Free
When Mobile Merck Medicus was introduced, it instantly became a favorite mobile healthcare tool. The product includes medical news updates and journal abstracts such as Harrison’s Practice (the equivalent to “pocket” or “baby” Harrison’s), the complete Merck Manual, and the Pocket Guide to Diagnostic Tests. Harrison’s Practice also contains ICD-9 codes and a drug monograph. Physicians unable to locate a drug using Epocrates’ software, will likely find it through this drug monograph. Also included are many of the OTC drugs that are not found on Epocrates’ software.

OMT

Pocket OMT
Price: Free trial, full package starting at $45.00
Tired of toting your OMT guide in your coat pocket? Now you can keep it at your fingertips on your PDA or Smartphone as well as your desktop computer. Based on the book, Pocket OMT Manual – The Stiles Approach by Edward G. Stiles, DO, Pocket OMT for Windows Desktop and Pocket OMT for Windows Mobile 5© are the latest versions available to physicians.

ACOFP has negotiated a reduced rate for ACOFP members. ACOFP members need to enter the discount code dQeRPf when purchasing a license key for the software. The discounted price is $42 for a single license key (Windows Mobile or Windows Desktop) or $55 for two license keys for the bundle.