Comments on: U of Louisville Med & Dental Schools Integrate Handhelds

Actually there are a number of medical schools with varying degrees of integrated courses. Harvard, Suny Downstate, USC Keck and Buffalo are only a few. You can find some cases studies at www.arcstream.com. We (ArcStream) are a wireless systems integration firm that develops vertically focused applications, med schools being one of those. Frequent solutions include course content distribution, patient encounter capture, survey and evaluations, etc.

My residency used them quite alot--first as individuals, then officially to track procedures. A staff member @ Walter-Reed help set up our offical program. A die-hard Palm-Geek (like most of us) he had IR ports @ Walter-Reed posted so that residents/ staff and med studs could hot-sync anywhere and update their inpatient lists, post notes to charts, and update clinic schedules. This was in '97. He had every palm device available as well as a PPC. The coolest at the time was a TRG Pro w/ 1GB microdrive. Medical people in general have embraced handhelds, and it would seem that the Palm platform is better suited for information handling than the other. It sure was nice to chuck all those little (and big) books from our lab coat pockets. Having said that, I agree that this first post is nothing revolutionary, as any of us can site his/her school/training facility as one that did it earlier. Hooray for Palms! They make my life much easier.