I recently ditched my Dell Axim after it died. Surprisingly, I don’t miss it. I mainly used it for ePocrates, but the transition back to the Tarascon Pharmacopoeia was smooth and painless.
MDNG explores whether PDAs are dying, or if physicians are just shifting to Smartphones.
Related posts:
- Drug seekers
- PDAs for physicians
- Will smartphones replace the pager?
- Who’s dying from the H1N1 flu pandemic?
- Dying in the waiting room
- Primary care is dying, may already be dead
- The Most-Avoided Conversation in Medicine is . . .
KevinMD.com on Facebook
{ 2 comments }
Yes the pure PDA is dying. Most people are going with convergence. I now use a Treo 680 myself though I still have a working Palm T5 and Dell Axim x50v in my “collection” (the rest of my old PDAs I have given away).
The Treo does everything including even running UpToDate.
I organise my practice and keep track of my patients with Agendus Premium.
Btw Kevin, I keep a Medical PDA news blog here:
http://palmdoc.net
Cheers
I did the PDA thing for a while, but it really didn’t make me a better doctor or shorten my day. Everynow and then, for some stupid reason, I would lose the data. Then, while nothing ever happened, I worried about privacy breaches–better than carrying a book with patient data but not fool proof.
Comments on this entry are closed.