The sorry state of Palm Pre medical apps

By: Brian Dolan | Jul 22, 2009

ABG Pro — Analyze Arterial Blood Gases. Adopted from the company: An app that will analyze arterial blood gases for you. The app will tell you whether or not you have a metabolic or respiratory acidosis or alkalosis. It will also calculate expected PCO2 and expected HCO3 when needed and will then tell you if there is a concominant acid-base disorder. It will even calculate Anion Gap and Delta-Delta if necessary. Impress your attendings and fellow residents. Compiled into fast, efficient machine code using Quartus Forth. Only needs 14K of your precious memory (no 50+ K math libraries required!).

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Matt

What I find amazing is that everyone wants an app when you can get the online version of epocrates (spelling) for free and updated information. Do not get so wrapped up on the app and get online where information is everywhere…
Jason

MATT – That’s a good idea if you walk around with a Wi-Fi enabled Laptop in your pocket. For those of us that don’t, we need an App like that for a mobile device (hence, Palm). Why wait until you’re near a computer, when you can have access whenever you need it, where ever you are?
http://jerryfahrni.com/2009/07/things-just-got-a-little-better-for-healthcare-professionals-with-a-palm-pre/ Jerry Fahrni » Things just got a little better for healthcare professionals with a Palm Pre

[...] mobihealthnews: “When the Palm Pre App Catalog first launched in early June it had no medical apps to offer, but among the fewapplications the App Catalog launched with was an emulator app by MotionApps that promised to bring applications from old Palm platforms to the new Pre. In other words, if you are a health practitioner who has relied on a Palm Pilot for the past ten years, now you can upgrade to a new Palm Pre and use the same applications with more or less the same user experience.” – This is good news for anyone still holding on to their old Palm OS applications. I, for one, have several as I used to be a Palm Pilot junkie. The article above goes on to list several legacy Palm OS medical applications that will now work on the Palm Pre. Darn you Verizon, when will you get some cool phones? Tags: medical applications, Palm Pre Comments (0) Trackbacks (0) Leave a comment Trackback [...]
Don

Programs that run on palm OS do not RUN on the webOS of the palm pre. There is a difference between paying for a emulation program to run the old palm programs and programs that are made for the new phone’s operating system. Palm did not think it important to provide an emulator, but allowed a 3rd party software concern to bilk its customers. If they spent as much time fixing this problem as they do in stealing the signal from iTunes, they would happier customers. There is a difference between having the Epocrates software work correctly on an iPhone and the palm pre. On one it works, on the other it doesn’t. Plus is this not the only problem. On websites, the palm pre cannot navigate around internal windows, it loses information and thereby becomes less useful as a device, just a toy. And this is after webOS 1.1 update. This was an alpha product released and hyped as good to go. They will probably go out of business on this product and may take sprint with them.
Matt

You do not need wifi…use the 3g network with your pre…works great, enjoy the freedom, no laptop needed. We must all think outside the box or get used to living in one. lol
http://www.pepid.com/press/palmpre.asp Palm Medical

A newer one is the palm medical software app from PEPID. Orders by Feb. 28 get 3 months free and otherwise they have a free 2 week trial with no limitations on it to try it.

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