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Purchasing apps in the HP Touchpad App Catalog – a guide for those outside “official... by Alan T. Medical Doctor Posted in: Blog Posts in Life as a Doc You might think this is a no-brainer but for those living outside the “official list” of countries where one can purchase apps, “geo-restriction” has been a huge obstacle ... Read on »
Epocrates for #iOS updated by Alan T. Medical Doctor Posted in: Blog Posts in Life as a Doc After the recent iOS5 release, there’s been a flood of app updates in the App Store. You might have noticed Epocrates for iOS has undergone a major update. The update is b ... Read on »
WordPress update by Alan T. Medical Doctor Posted in: Blog Posts in Life as a Doc I’ll be attempting a WordPress update to the latest version. Database backups in progress now and I hope down time will be minimal! Update: WordPress upgrade success!! ... Read on »
Reading hyperlinked references on your Touchpad [#webOS] by Alan T. Medical Doctor Posted in: Blog Posts in Life as a Doc One of the important requirements for a useful medical e-reference/e-book is hyperlinking functionality, i.e. the ability to jump from one section of the document to anoth ... Read on »
AMA App Challenge by Alan T. Medical Doctor Posted in: Blog Posts in Life as a Doc The AMA is launching a contest dubbed the  AMA App Challenge  and if you are an AMA member you have until September 30 to vote for your favorite app idea. (via iMedical Ap ... Read on »
Medical #webOS app programming: my first go at Enyo coding by Alan T. Medical Doctor Posted in: Blog Posts in Life as a Doc As some of you might know, webOS has transitioned to using the Enyo programming framework which is quite different from the original Mojo framework. Enyo is behind webOS 3 ... Read on »
Smartphone usage amongst Asian Healthcare Professionals by Alan T. Medical Doctor Posted in: Blog Posts in Life as a Doc The result of an online survey conducted by MIMS (a leading healthcare media company prominent in the Asia Pacific region, and provider of the popular MIMS drug informatio ... Read on »
[#iOS] Native UpToDate app for the iPhone by Alan T. Medical Doctor Posted in: Blog Posts in Life as a Doc At long last, UpToDate has released a native app for the iPhone. Previously, PalmOS and Windows Mobile users were the only ones privileged enough to be able to use mobile ... Read on »
New pages on Palmdoc.net : free iPhone and Android medical apps by Alan T. Medical Doctor Posted in: Blog Posts in Life as a Doc If you are in the medical profession, as a student, doctor, nurse, pharmacist or paramedic, chances are you are using or contemplating using a smartphone. Smartphones are ... Read on »
Shots 2011 mobile app by Alan T. Medical Doctor Posted in: Blog Posts in Life as a Doc Just a quick post to let you know that the STFM Group on Immunization Education has a new Mobile version of Shots Online . As long as you have internet access, you can vie ... Read on »
Site Housekeeping by Alan T. Medical Doctor Posted in: Blog Posts in Life as a Doc I have updated the website, cleaned up some dead links and blog links. The updated pages are Medical Mobile/PDA Sites Mobile Medical Websites (Medical Websites whic ... Read on »
The day the music died by Alan T. Medical Doctor Posted in: Blog Posts in Life as a Doc I started singin’, “bye-bye, miss american pie.” Drove my chevy to the levee, But the levee was dry. Them good old boys were drinkin’ whiskey and rye And singin’ ... Read on »
Recommendation: two excellent medical apps (#iOS) by Alan T. Medical Doctor Posted in: Blog Posts in Life as a Doc Josh has written to recommend two excellent medical apps for the Apple iPhone: Two apps that I think would be good to publicize for all your doctor user/readers. ... Read on »
Google Translate in the clinic by Alan T. Medical Doctor Posted in: Blog Posts in Life as a Doc For those of you who work in an multi-ethnic environment (e.g. doctors seeing non-English speaking patients in the clinic) , I suspect there have been days you wish the St ... Read on »
My #webOS developer journey by Alan T. Medical Doctor Posted in: Blog Posts in Life as a Doc It’s been almost 2 years and after 2 dead Palm Pre’s (paid out of my pocket at inflated imported prices) and a Palm Pre2 (provided free by HP/Palm as a developer device) I ... Read on »
The HP Touchpad and medical users #webOS by Alan T. Medical Doctor Posted in: Blog Posts in Life as a Doc The HP Touchpad landed on July 1 . It’s early days yet so one can’t expect too many medical apps available for webOS 3.0 as yet though the premier drug reference for webOS ... Read on »
Free Pocket Medical Spanish App #iOS by Alan T. Medical Doctor Posted in: Blog Posts in Life as a Doc No hablo Espanol? Special offer from Epocrates: Download Pocket Medical Spanish with Audio*, featuring 400+ visual, text, and audio pronunciations of key point-of- ... Read on »
The @HP TouchPad has landed #webOS by Alan T. Medical Doctor Posted in: Blog Posts in Life as a Doc July 1, 2011 marks the official launch of the HP Touchpad , the first tablet sized computer running webOS originally designed from the ground up by Palm for mobile ... Read on »
Text messaging with your mobile device by Alan T. Medical Doctor Posted in: Blog Posts in Life as a Doc One of my favorite ways of communicating is via text – traditionally via email or SMS. I find communicating with colleagues, patients friends and family this way convenien ... Read on »
Tablets and EMRs by Alan T. Medical Doctor Posted in: Blog Posts in Life as a Doc With the fast adoption of the iPad which is now the leader in the market, it’s a device physicians would love to use in their daily practice. It’s no surprise that EMR ven ... Read on »