Saturday, July 18, 2009

Human Factors Evaluation of PDAs and Smartphones in Nursing Practice

Looking to upgrade your PDA or smart phone?
Before you buy, click on the title to see the results of this recent study.

Objective:
To determine which design features of popular mobile devices are supportive of various nursing tasks. Device usability was determined via performance and user perceptions of the following five mobile devices:
◦Nokia N810
◦Blackberry Bold
◦Apple iPhone 3G
◦Palm Treo 680
◦HP iPAQ 210

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Wednesday, February 04, 2009

TeleRead: Bring the E-Books Home

Interested in the latest developments in e-books?

Check out this excellent blog & sign up for the RSS feed to keep track of this moving target!

Left ~ Mobipocket on a Blackberry
Right ~ The Kindle 2

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Monday, October 13, 2008

DynaMed Moblie Access now Available

If you would like to access the DynaMed point-of-care database on your PDA's or SmartPhones, please come and see us in the Library to obtain you serial number login!

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Wednesday, September 17, 2008

The iPod Touch is winning over in Healthcare


This week on Dr. John Halamka's award-winning blog, he outlines 5 arguments in favor of the iPod Touch for healthcare applications, labelling it "the mobile clinical data viewing and educational device of the future".

Click on the title to read how Dr. Halamka backs up this claim...

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