Contents:

• Palm & PDA
• Informatics Resources
• Automated Information Management Systems

Palm and PDA Applications in Medicine

A really good starting point is MedsPDA.com. See also

• Chris Jones' AetherPalm site - home of InfusiCalc, an infusion rate calculator for PalmOS.
• Richard Riley's Palm & Handheld page on the Anaesthesia-WA site.
• Skyscape.com - "your mobile medical library"
• Epocrates - drug, lab and disease databases
• SyncSuite - Case logging software

Informatics Resources

• Computers in Medicine
• Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society, founded in 1961, a not-for-profit organization dedicated to promoting a better understanding of health care information and management systems.
• American Medical Informatics Association
• Hardin MetaDirectory of Internet Health Resources
• Health Services/Technology Assessment Text (NLM)
• Technology in Medical Education courses
• Web-Based Training
• Technology in Medical Education courses at Monash Uni Victoria Australia

Automated Anesthesia Information Management Systems

• Picis uses a Microsoft NT based SQL Server database. Picis has products for the Anesthesia and Perioperative Medicine, the Operating Room, and Intensive Care Units. Picis offers CareSuite 97™, which includes Chart+™ (an automated anesthetic record keeper), Visual Care™ (automating caregiver work), IntelliNotes™ (a text information management tool), and HospiAudit™ (a managed care decision support tool, outcomes, and quality improvement solution).
• CareFX provides hospital-wide data integration services. Follows on from EmTek.
• CompuRecord from Philips uses a Microsoft NT or DEC Alpha (Unix) platform. The back-end database is an enterprise relational database manager, such as SQL Server or Oracle.
• Dräger Medical's Recall AIMS, Innovian and Infinity information systems.
• GE Medical has the Centricity perioperative information management system but their website is won't help you much.

Anesthesia Information Management Consultants

• Dan Pettus Consulting Group
• Medical Information Technologies, Inc.