Elsevier unveils another wireless information service, POCKET Consult, for physicians.Elsevier, a world-leading publisher of scientific, technical and medical information products and services, has announced the availability of POCKET Consult, a doctor's single destination for critical, point-of-care material for their PDA (Personal Digital Assistant) A handheld computer for managing contacts, appointments and tasks. It typically includes a name and address database, calendar, to-do list and note taker, which are the functions in a personal information manager (see PIM). . Newsletter and specialized-information publishers should be following this rapid development of the wireless delivery of information. Last March, in reporting on Elsevier's launch of FIRST Consult, similar to POCKET Consult, NL/NL said, "Welcome to the dawn of wireless newsletters and specialized spe·cial·ize v. spe·cial·ized, spe·cial·iz·ing, spe·cial·iz·es v.intr. 1. To pursue a special activity, occupation, or field of study. 2. information, a development that the prescient pre·scient adj. 1. Of or relating to prescience. 2. Possessing prescience. [French, from Old French, from Latin praesci Al Goodloe predicted in his June 2003 speech at the NEPA international conference" (NL/NL 3/16/04). POCKET Consult (www.pocketconsult.com) allows medical professionals to purchase, download To receive a file transmitted over a network. In any communications session, "download" means receive, and "upload" means send. The download/upload often implies a big/little scenario, in which data is being downloaded from the "big" server into the "little" user's computer. , and organize all of their Elsevier handheld clinical knowledge products from a single, customizable website and manage them via a single, easily accessible application on their PDA. Users also have access to daily news and weekly drug updates from MD Consult, medical journal abstracts and tables of content, clinical tools, 20 medical calculators Modern medicine makes regular use of scores and indices that put doctors' memory and calculation skills to the test. The advent of personal computers, the Web, and more recently personal digital assistants (PDA) saw the rise of a class of medical software called medical calculators. , and, through the end of 2004, free downloads of Mosby's Drug Consult handheld software. |
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