Incoming Synergy Medical residents and medical students are given the opportunity to purchase a personal digital assistant (PDA). Learn more about PDA’s from this extensive list of links.

MEDICAL SITES

PDA MD
Premier medical pda site.  Very clean, professional. Offers tutorials, forums, news and software.

Ectopic Brain
Palm OS Handhelds in Clinical Practice. Designed by a medical resident to help others locate medical programs, files and other resources for PDA's.

HandHeld Med
"Devoted to clinical handheld computing news, reviews, and informatics in medicine"

Pediatric Pilot
Software on drug therapy, immunization, calculations for pediatric patients.  Links to PDA and pediatric websites and an online store. 

Epocrates
"The handheld network for physicians." Gives away ePocrates qRx, the "leading drug reference guide for the Palm OS" if you register (free). Software even has autoupdate!

Andrew Yee's Medical Eponym Site Rovsing's sign? Virchow's node? Here's a database of over 935 common and obscure medical eponyms in Doc and JFile Pro formats. Updated regularly.

E-Med Tools (ProfileMD)
Develops medical software and texts for the Palm OS. Medmicro, Medspel, TestInterp, PortMedCalc, and in the fall of 2000, an alternative medicine database.

Memoware: Medicine
Over 200 free downloadable documents on everything from andrology to zip files of test interpretations for healthcare professionals.

Palm Boulevard Medical productivity sofware, good descriptions, good selection.

Healthy PalmPilot
"The net's most comprehensive repository of health care resources for the Palm OS"

Dr. Oh's Medicine Palm Page
http://hometown.aol.com/roboh98/palm.html

  Medical Toolbox Software
Handheld solutions for the medical workplace - PregCalc, Anesthesia StatTracker, Ob/Gyn StatTracker.  

PEPID - Portable Healthcare Expertise
PEPID seeks to provide all healthcare professionals with instantly accessible, current, and accurate clinical reference materials to help them provide faster, sound healthcare, and the best patient outcomes.
Subscription based.

GENERAL SITES

PalmGear
http://www.palmgear.com/

CNet.com
http://www.cnet.com

Palm Boulevard
"The complete independent resource"
http://www.palmblvd.com/

About.com's PDA site
About has a single human guide responsible for each topics. Well-organized. News, reviews, software, accessories, etc.
http://palmtops.about.com/compute/palmtops/?once=true&

Visor Centeral
Software, hardware and information on the Handspring Visor palmtop (Palm compatible)
http://www.visorcentral.com

TuCows Palm Zone
Strange name, but a premier site. Huge, beautifully organized collection of software.
http://pda.tucows.com/palm.html

The Palm Pilot WebRing
Webrings are sites that voluntarily link to each other to form rings. Quality can be mixed, but the scope can't be beat!
http://www.webring.org/cgi-bin/webring?id=86&ring=geoff&List

TealPoint software
A premiere maker of software for PDA's. Many shareware and trial versions.
http://www.tealpoint.com

General links to Palm Healthcare related sites
http://www.pdacortex.com/palm_sites.htm

Freeware Palm
http://www.freewarepalm.com/

Palm Pilot Archives
http://home.palmpilotarchives.com/

PDABuyersGuide
http://www.pdagroove.com  


MAGAZINES

Computing Unplugged
http://www.computingunplugged.com/

EBOOKS FOR THE PALM

Books in the special format needed to read on a hand-held.
eReader.com
http://www.ereader.com/

MemoWare - PDA Bookstore
http://www.memoware.com/