PalmPower Magazine Enterprise Edition

PALMPOWER MAGAZINE ENTERPRISE EDITION - MARCH 2001

Medical schools discover advantages of Palm computers
Besides the traditional role of Palm computers as organizers, medical schools and other health education programs are quickly finding exciting new uses for Palm devices. Andrew Morton provides an exclusive inside look at the Palm initiatives being undertaken at the Medical College of Virginia campus of Virginia Commonwealth University.

Healthcare-specific Palm solutions
In this article, Dr. Darwin J. Liao examines some of the cool Palm applications created specifically for the healthcare industry in order to help healthcare professionals manage key elements of the healthcare delivery process such as billing and charge capture, medical charting, drug database and medical reference, electronic prescriptions, lab and patient tracking, and outcomes data collection.

Basic productivity solutions for the healthcare market
Dr. Darwin J. Liao shares some of the exciting ways he's discovered to use customized, basic productivity solutions to help you manage your healthcare information.

ePocrates qRx helps doctors save lives
If you're like most healthcare professionals, you need access to critical treatment information at the point-of-care, not hidden away on your desktop PC. Steve Niles has chosen to spotlight an amazing mobile database of drug information called ePocrates qRx that's saving lives by helping doctors avoid mistakes and stay informed.

Agribusiness in the Palm of your hand
Given their form factor, ease of use, long battery life, and solid reliability, Palm devices are becoming more and more popular in agribusiness, construction, and manufacturing environments. Tom Gettings, an engineer with The GSI Group, Inc., offers this real world example of how the power of Palm computing is being used to remotely program flash chips on a series of agricultural crop dryers.

Wireless solutions for healthcare professionals
There's a vast amount of health information and resources available for Palm device users. Steve Niles surveys some of the cool Palm Query Applications and AvantGo mobile channels available today to assist health professionals and consumers.

FROM THE EDITOR-IN-CHIEF
Selling on enterprise time
In this month's editorial, Editor-in-Chief David Gewirtz ponders the phenomena of "enterprise time" and the ways this requires hardware and software developers to re-think the way they do business.

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
Windows NT4 and email via satellite
In this edition of Letters to the Editor, one reader is concerned that Windows NT4 doesn't support USB connections, and another wonders whether it's possible to use a Palm device to send email from remote parts of the globe.

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