PDA (Personal Digital Assistant) Tools

Listed below are links to software and content resources for PDAs (e.g., Palm or Pocket PC) that can be useful to physicians in their practice of hospice and palliative medicine. AAHPM has not reviewed and does not endorse any of these materials. Comments on this page, as well as suggestions for other resources that might be included, are welcome at resources@aahpm.org

Adobe Reader
For the mobile operating system.

A-Z Free PDA Resources
A listing of free medical PDA resources compiled by Medical College of Wisconsin.

C-Tools 2.0
Up-to-date information on cancer prevention, diagnosis, and treatment for physicians from the American Cancer Society.

Clinical Pharmacology On Hand
Drug information databases, software, and clinical information solutions.

CollectiveMed PDA Center
Various popular medical software for the healthcare professional, including drug guides, patient tracking, dictionaries, calculators, coding and billing, general utilities, and free software.

DDH Software
Medical Pocket Reference software, including HanDBase, a tailored PDA medical database.

EPERC FastFacts
Educational resource material for the community of health professional educators involved in palliative care education.

Epocrates
A drug and formulary reference, disease reference and integrated symptom assessment tool, and diagnostic and laboratory test reference.

Geriatrics At Your Fingertips®
A comprehensive pocket-sized reference to clinical geriatrics that provides up-to-date, practical information on the evaluation and management of diseases and disorders most common to elderly people.

HFHS Pocket Guideline: End of Life Care for Hospitalized Adults
An interdisciplinary, holistic guideline to promote quality of care and quality of life for the adult patient and family/significant others at the end of life.

Hopkins Opioid Conversion Calculator
A free PDA-based Opioid conversion calculator.

InfoPOEMS - Patient-Oriented Evidence that Matters
The only database system of filtered, synopsized, evidence-based information.

Lexi-Comp
A pharmacotherapy handbook and databases that provide critical therapeutic information on more than 140 common diseases and disorders.

MDConsult
A single point, integrated access from science publisher Elsevier to trusted medical content including: leading reference books, full-text articles from influential medical journals, MEDLINE and other databases, peer-reviewed clinical practice guidelines, a comprehensive drug database, customizable patient education handouts, continuing medical education materials, and a suite of features which identify and report on current developments in medicine.

MedCalc
A free medical calculator of common equations used in clinical medicine.

Mobile MerckMedicus
Clinical resources, including journals, medical resources, anatomical slides, diagnostic tests, treatment guidelines, and decision support tools for the PDA.

Ovid@Hand Tools
Browse new journal tables of content, view abstracts and select articles to download for reading later.

PDA-Based Opioid Conversion Calculators
Excellent review of opioid conversion calculators for the PDA with links to the calculator site.

pdaMD
Provides tutorials, forums, news, and software for health care professionals who use PDAs.

PocketConsult
Provides free content such as health care news, drug updates, calculators, and streamlined access to expert Elsevier content for the PDA.

Seattle Heart Failure Model
A free calculator of projected survival at baseline and after interventions for patients with heart failure.

Skyscape
Extensive portfolio of medical and nursing reference for the mobile PDA.

Tarascon Publishing
Medical pocketbooks including Pocket Pharmacopoeia, a portable drug reference.

Up to date.com
A 70,000 page medical textbook that fits on a 2Gb card in a Pocket PC, specifically designed to answer the clinical questions that arise in daily practice.