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Pediatric Clinical Practice Guidelines & Policies on the PDA

Thursday, May 28th, 2009

Certainly, it’s a great idea to have all those evidence based policies and guidelines endorsed by the APP in the palm of hands!

Pediatric Clinical Practice Guidelines

The AAP’s compilation of the latest guidelines and policies is available in the form of Mobipocket document.

The PDA version of the Pediatric Clinical Practice Guidelines and Policies “9th edition” offers more than just the policies and statements, it includes some other very useful features. Turn your audio on and see the following video for more details.

The addition of a bilirubin assessment tool, the vaccines scheduling, patient guidance, and some ICD codes makes this great evidence-based PDA reference a repository of the all tools that a pediatrician may need in practice.

However, as mentioned in the video above, the app need to be available in other medical readers that we are all familiar with such as Skyscape or Unbound Medicine.

For $55 [members] and $60 [non-members] the stand alone PDA version only it can be downloaded from the AAP’s Book store

We can also buy $100 the book+CD Rom+PDA version from Amazon, or $105 [members] -$90 [non-members] directly from AAP’s Bookstore.

Even Andrew Schechtman is switching to the iPhone!

Friday, April 17th, 2009

A long time Palm and iSilo hard-liner is showing strong attraction towards the new era, the iPhone…

The founder of Meistermed and all other products where you find the word meister, ICDmeister, Dermeister, and PCodemeister to name some of them.

The San Jose based MD is leaving the Palm and iSilo behind. First he started writing his popular titles on the iPhone but still on an iSilo reader. In fact, Meistermed titles are one of the biggest reason why we should ever think of buying the iPhone’s iSilo app. Then, now, he must have realized the iSilo headaches and started making a stand-alone iPhone and iPod Touch apps of the same great titles.

The first title to appear was the ICDMeister, here’s how it looks on the iPod Touch;

This is a great ICD coding app for only $3.99 annual subscription. Similar apps may reach $30! Update: the price will change soon [see comments below].

Seamless flow and unmatched rapid access to the code that we want. Search by disease, abbreviation, or by code. The home page is a great list of categories simplifying the navigation, and yes the pediatric category is there.

For further details check out the Pda4peds review.

Polling for the Best Coding and Billing reference on the handheld has kicked off recently on Pda4peds, have your say..