Norris Medical Library Emily Brennan MLIS Pamela M

Norris Medical Library Emily Brennan, MLIS Pamela M. Corley, MLS, AHIP Evans Whitaker, MD, MLIS BIOMEDICAL RESOURCES FOR MOBILE DEVICES AT USC

QUESTIONS FOR YOU • • • Are you a beginner, intermediate or advanced? What device do you own? What questions do you have for us? We don’t know everything about this rapidly changing area, but will do our best to find you answers to your questions if we do not know!

OUTLINE Applications • • • Visual. DX Epocrates Lexi-Comp ACP Pier Essential Evidence Plus Next. Bio Pub. Med on Tap UCentral o 5 Minute Clinical Consult o Emergency Medicine Manual o Pocket Guide to Diagnostic Tests Diagnosaurus: differential diagnosis Mobile Device Optimized Webpages • Pub. Med for handhelds • Up. To. Date for handhelds • MD Consult for handhelds

APPLICATIONS

VISUALDX • • What o An application designed to help with visual diagnosis (not too surprising) o Primarily dermatologic How o Free download for i. Phone for USC users. o Android app soon to follow. o Sign up for download from main page at Visual. Dx. Fill out form and submit. They email back the information you need to download application from i. Tunes App store

EPOCRATES • What? o o • A drug information tool Several versions of varying costs – free to ~$200 How? o o o Free download of basic Rx version for all Most platforms have a version Android version of Rx is in beta Epocrates Essentials provided by Keck SOM to students Download from http: //www. epocrates. com

LEXI-COMP • • What? o Drug information resource How? o There academic discounts o Links center of homepage lead to purchase options o For Palm, PPC, Windows Mobile, Blackberry

ACP PIER • • What? o A clinical information tool o Rapid access to high quality clinical information How? o Free download for USC users o Only for Palm PDAs o See http: //www. usc. edu/hsc/nml/e-resources/ACPier/e. Res. ACPier_download. html for details

ESSENTIAL EVIDENCE PLUS • • What? o Evidence-based clinical information tool How? o Only for Palm OS or Windows Mobile devices o http: //www. usc. edu/e_resources/hsl/gateways/1199 8. php for more information

NEXTBIO • What? o • Pub. Med search with emphasis on Bioinformatics How? o o i. Phone only Free download from i. Tunes App store

PUBMED ON TAP • What? o • Pub. Med search application How? o o o For i. Phone Lite is free, full version is $2. 99 Download from i. Tunes App store

UNBOUND MEDICINE/UCENTRAL • What? o USC purchases access so that USC students, faculty, and staff can download: § § § • 5 Minute Clinical Consult – clinical information tool Emergency Medicine Manual – abbreviated text of EM Pocket Guide to Diagnostic Tests – abbreviated text about diagnostic testing How? o o Blackberry, i. Phone, Palm, Windows. Mobile, Android versions Go to u. Central, click link to arrive at u. Central, then click Register for PDA Download, fill out form and receive information about downloading by email.

DIAGNOSAURUS • What? o • Differential diagnosis software How? o o Versions for Blackberry, i. Phone, Palm, Windows Mobile http: //www. usc. edu/e_resources/hsl/gateways/1364 9. php

MOBILE OPTIMIZED WEB PAGES

PUBMED FOR HANDHELDS • What? o o • MEDLINE search for handhelds Uses a PICO search format How? o http: //pubmedhh. nlm. nih. gov

UPTODATE FOR HANDHELDS • What? o • Popular clinical information tool How? o Access only on-campus through USC Wireless § o pda. uptodate. com or mobile. uptodate. com Works for i. Phone and Blackberry, does not work with Droid

MD CONSULT FOR HANDHELDS What? o MD Consult is a book collection which you search by topic How? o Create a personal account at MDConsult on your personal computer. o Make sure you are logged out of MD Consult account on computer, go to m. mdconsult. com and log in to account using same sign-in

QUESTIONS? • Contact us with your questions or suggestions • • Emily Brennan: ebrennan@usc. edu Pamela M. Corley: pcorley@usc. edu Evans M. Whitaker: ewhitake@usc. edu Mobile Devices Library Guide for more information