DDH Software Unveils New HanDBase Apps

Posted By: Kevin Doel on Thursday, June 28, 2001 9:22:48 AM

DDH Software, maker of the HanDBase relational database, has unveiled its new HanDBase Data Exchange at TechXNY. This lets HanDBase users integrate their handheld databases with Microsoft Access on desktop PCs and ODBC compatible software applications (e.g. FileMaker Pro, Oracle, My SQL, etc.) on corporate networks. They have also launched a program to offer HanDBase applications that have been created by and for medical professionals.

HanDBase Data Exchange offers a wizard that walks users through the process of mapping HanDBase fields to and from the enterprise database application.

Users will be able to read data into HanDBase from any ODBC level 1.0 driver and write data from HanDBase to any ODBC level 2.0 driver. Data can be appended to existing tables and databases. Alternatively, tables and databases are cleared or created. The application also offers full support for advanced data types, including checkbox, decimal numbers, dates, times, pop-up and bit fields.

The Access version costs $10 while the ODBC one is $25.

DDH Software has teamed with several healthcare industry professionals who have developed various HanDBase applications for their own use and have expressed an interest in making these tools widely available to medical professionals around the world. DDH Software has taken several HanDBase databases created by medical professionals and transformed them into standalone applications. The company has put its resources into designing, building and testing handheld medical applications that met the rigid standards of each of the healthcare professionals that created the initial applications.

“While many of the healthcare applications that are marketed today were developed by programmers with little or no experience in the healthcare industry, these databases were actually created by medical professionals, including several doctors,” said David Haupert, DDH Software’s president and CEO.

A few of the medical applications that will initially be available include:

HandEchart provides access to important patient notes at all times. HandEchart includes eight total databases linked together to make gathering clinical patient data a simple process.

OB-On Call gives OB-GYN physicians access to vital patient records so they will not be caught off guard by off-hours calls from patients needing rapid access to their histories.

Wound Care Manager is an electronic database solution for patient assessment and data management of wounds and skin care.

Patient HandChart is an electronic medical record for patient data management and assessment. Although this application can be utilized for any type of patient management system, the program provides all the necessary tools a Senior Care Practitioner requires to manage geriatric patients.

Pocket Psychiatry provides psychiatrists or other mental health professionals with a tool to maintain accurate, detailed, and up-to-date patient records that can be searched, filtered or sorted by any of a number of useful criteria. Users can create and manage listings of PCP's, insurers, and pharmacies used by patients.

The prices for these medical applications currently range from $13 to $500 and can all be downloaded from DDH’s Medical Palm Applications Web site.

On the Web:

HanDBase Data Exchange
DDH’s Medical Palm Applications

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not good

I.M. Anonymous @ 6/28/2001 10:30:20 AM #

This seems to be very confusing and cumbersome. Who wants to import and export this things back and forth? I am very happy with the true bi-directional conduit that thinkDB provides (you have to purchase separate). And also thinkDB is a much better database system than HandBase.

RE: not good

I.M. Anonymous @ 6/28/2001 3:16:29 PM #

You don't have to map fields from thinkdb to an Access database when you first set it up? How does it know what fields go together? I would think that once the initial set-up (field mapping) is complete, the synchronization between the databases would be seamless in either HanDBase or thinkdb.

I think HanDBase's ODBC deal is pretty cool. I looked at thinkdb's site and didn't see where they can import/export with a network database other than Access. This would be pretty great for companies with a lot of employees working out in the field using data from the company network. I am with a small business that doesn't need it, but I could see where it would be pretty useful for larger companies.

Does the new version support forms?

Cheetah @ 6/28/2001 11:23:35 AM #

I've just started to evaluate Palm databases and was looking at HanDBase, but noted it does not support forms.

Does this new version support forms?

Also, the prior anonymous poster likes ThinkDB. Can you describe this bi-directional conduit alittle?

RE: Does the new version support forms?

I.M. Anonymous @ 6/28/2001 12:01:28 PM #

Cheeta, the Thinking Bytes web site has more information about the dbsynch program http://www.thinkingbytes.com

I use it to synchronize my access tables with the thinkdb databases on my Palm. It synchronizes via HotSync record-by-record.

Bi-directional conduit

I.M. Anonymous @ 6/28/2001 6:27:12 PM #

Here is what the HanDbase site has to say about their bi-directional conduit, available for an additional $9.95:

"The NEW HanDBase Conduit for Windows enables you to Synchronize your databases between your handheld and desktop versions of HanDBase. Now all changes to the same database, down to the record level, on either the handheld or desktop are merged together when you HotSync!

To further ensure the security and integrity of a your data, HanDBase will make up to 10 backup copies of your databases each time you HotSync if you have made changes. If you Delete a Database from your handheld the Conduit will also auto-archive your databases. This feature enables fast and easy database restoration, if needed.

The practicality of this solution enables two people to work on the same database, one likely in the field using his or her Palm, while back at the office a staff member can be working on the same database using the HanDBase desktop program. Later when the Palm is "Hot-Synced," the conduit compares the two files and intelligently merges them together."

Re: the ODBC-compliant ability of the new program -- WOW! We've been waiting for something like that! This may take a little while for the techs to make use of, but it will mean in the end that anyone with large amounts of data in OBDC databases can carry that with them on the road. In addition, there can be changes to either the Palm side or the desktop side that sync back together after a change on the next HotSync. . . . This could be huge. It may not mean much to the average Joe, but to the corporate market, this could be extremely useful.

JBH

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