Expanded Mobile Computing Guide Introduced

Greenblatt Library's updated mobile computing guide now includes more clinical resources for a wide variety of mobile devices.

The use of PDAs (Personal Digital Assistants) goes well beyond basic calendaring. Health care professionals are using these devices in educational and clinical settings to track patient information, download web content, access databases, and utilize helper tools along with a myriad of other software.

Recent research demonstrates the effectiveness of mobile pharmaceutical references at the bedside. Our new guide provides links to Greenblatt Library’s subscribed drug references as well as freeware and shareware applications. Most of the resources are available across a wide variety of operating systems (Palm, WinMobile, iPhone, Blackberry, Smartphone). Those resources available only on selected operating systems are indicated in brackets next to the links.

New for this version of the guide are brief descriptions of available resources, organized by discipline and clinical sub-specialty (some examples of content in the guide include emergency medicine, infectious disease, pediatrics, etc.). At the beginning of the guide you will find links to productivity applications useful for mobile computing, such as RSS. Video and blog reader software is also included.