Palmtop organizes and simplifies life

You can add me to the list of physicians using the HP 95LX and now the 100LX as an essential medical adjunct. I am rarely without the unit as I find it greatly organizes and simplifies my life. I teach at UCLA and the residents are very curious on its uses and benefits. One problem for many is the price of a system, when you include a memory card and modem.

My current uses of the HP Palmtop include the following:

Calling into the hospital or school from home or on the road for messages and patient care information. We use E-mail extensively. I use {COMMO} <ON DISK ICON> for communications and PC Anywhere for file transfer.

Maintaining a patient database both for current inpatients and my continuity of care outpatients. This is great on the HP 100LX.

Accessing and adding to the drug interaction worksheet from MEDSTF <ON DISK ICON>.

Using UNO <ON DISK ICON> notes to keep list of drugs, diseases and notes about many internal medicine topics.

Creating a kidney transplant database so that the on-call nurses and surgeons have the essentials of those on the active list available anywhere. They already carry cellular phones and this completes their portable office.

Using the Medical Equation solver originally uploaded from MEDSTF <ON DISK ICON> and expanded.

As you can see the list is long and can go on and on. Additionally the built in applications (Phone modified for additional fields) are a real bonus.

Neil H Parker, MD

Assoc Dean

Graduate Medical Education Director,

Clinical Info Services

Univ. of California at Los Angeles

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