Archive for the ‘Vaccines’ Category

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.

Shots 2009, A Complete Vaccine Tool

Thursday, April 30th, 2009

The new updated Shots vaccine PDA app is available for free from The Society of Teacher of Family Medicine, Group on Immunization Education. Website is www.immunizationed.org

Play the video for details;

This is perhaps the best vaccine tool that we can all have on our PDA for free.

A very simple user interface with a single page and no need for scrolling up and down or right and left. The app is updated as soon as the new ACIP recommendations are out each year.

Don’t buy the Skyscape version just download the free Shots which is compatible with Palm and Windows Mobile OS.

Vote for it in the Best vaccine app poll and may be the Best free app poll also.

Shots 2008, Again please NO Skyscape.

Saturday, March 1st, 2008

Once again The Society of Teachers of Family Medicine delights us with this newly updated 2008 version of their wonderful and free vaccine reference. Just like last year’s version Skyscape provides a similar product for $15 but please don’t buy it (know why) unless Skyscape changes mind and be realistic and provides a free version.

Just like 2007; the Palm, The Pocket PC, and the online versions are updated with the latest ACIP recommendations and the result is the most useful most updated and referenced vaccine tool ever available to the handheld.

[Update 01-05-09] Shots 2009 is reviewed here.

Shots 2007 ‘ Why should we buy it?

Sunday, September 16th, 2007

The society of teachers of family medicine has been offering “Shots” through their Group on Immunization Education. The program has always been free whether in its Palm, Pocket PC, or online versions. Suddenly, they decided to offer it in a Skyscape’s format for $14.95!

For more details about Shots read the latest 2009 review.

Apart from the indexing and cross linking with Skyscape’s other titles there is no real benefit actually of the Skyscape’s platform. In fact there are drawbacks like for example missing the excellent and wonderful one interface of the original program and also the absence of pictures in the Skyscape’s version!

We recommend (without any hesitation) to download the free version from immunizationed.org and not to buy the Skyscape’s version wasting 15 bucks!